OneSignal Grows Usage by 50% and Makes Key Hires

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 16, 2019 (Newswire.com) - ​​OneSignal, a leading customer engagement platform, continues its rapid growth with key hires.

When someone picks up a smartphone, the first thing they’ll see is a push notification - maybe there’s a breaking news alert, football scores, or order status update… Whatever it is, chances are the message was sent using OneSignal.

Since founding OneSignal, we've aspired to hire the best people in the world to help us achieve our vision. I'm incredibly proud of the skill and passion of each of our new team members. It's a perfect time for them to join as we accelerate efforts cement our market leadership and provide our customers with tools that give them a competitive advantage.

George Deglin, CEO

OneSignal is the dominant player in the mobile and web push space, used by 76% of the top million sites with push notifications (source: builtwith).

Usage of the push notification service is up 50% since September: OneSignal now delivers 4.5 billion messages every single day. Also in the last six months, OneSignal made key hires with the addition of Lee Munroe, Lydia Fayal, Matt Foley, Teddy Lee, and Jonathan Tillotson. 

Lee Munroe joins with over 15 years of digital product design experience to head OneSignal's Design Team. Lee most recently ran product design at Mesosphere, providing enterprise infrastructure software for the Fortune 50. Prior to that, Lee was the Product and Design Lead at Mailgun, the email service used by Lyft, Github, and Slack. OneSignal recently launched email composition and segmentation tools that integrate with Mailgun. 

Lydia Fayal leads Business Development & Marketing. She brings over a decade of experience identifying and executing on global growth opportunities at both B2B and B2C tech companies. At OneSignal, Lydia is responsible for strategic partnership development and execution for the brand to drive customer acquisition. She is an alum of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Wharton, Y Combinator’s IK12 Accelerator, and Forbes 30Under30.

Matt Foley oversees National Sales with 20 years of experience across the intersection of SaaS, Media and Commerce. Prior to OneSignal, Matt was a leader and early member of teams at Sprinklr, Origami Logic and Gigya. He brings enterprise and process leadership to the growing Sales Team.

Teddy Lee leads Growth on the Product Team. He was previously at McKinsey & Company and Google, where he helped build one of the fastest-growing $1B+ advertising products. Teddy holds a BS & MS in Engineering from Stanford, as well as an MBA from MIT Sloan.

The most recent addition is Jonathan Tillotson, who joins OneSignal to oversee the company’s Finance and Accounting Department. Prior to joining OneSignal, Jonathan helped grow several SaaS companies including Lecorpio and Kahuna. Jonathan also founded Executive Outcome, a financial consulting company specialized in SEC financial reporting.

"Since founding OneSignal, we’ve aspired to hire the best people in the world to help us achieve our vision," says George Deglin, CEO. "I’m incredibly proud of the skill and passion of each of our new team members. It’s a perfect time for them to join as we accelerate efforts cement our market leadership and provide our customers with tools that give them a competitive advantage."

These hires represent a strategic move to fuel product growth beyond push notifications and better serve OneSignal’s enterprise customers, including many Fortune 500 Companies. Over 650,000 developers and marketing teams use OneSignal for customer engagement.

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OneSignal aims to power the world’s messages. The company was founded by Y Combinator alums George Deglin and Long Vo. OneSignal is venture-backed by SignalFire and Rakuten Capital. The company is based in San Mateo - onesignal.com/careers.  

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Source: OneSignal