Johnie Lee

Commander
DISC Type : D

Director of Engineering - Privacy.com at Lithic

Mountain View, California, United States

Overview

Johnie is a FinTech engineering leader with experience at Lithic, Uber, and Google. He specializes in scaling teams to build global financial products, including payment platforms and virtual cards. He holds a BS from Columbia University and an MBA from The Wharton School. Colleagues describe him as "smart" and "knowledgeable. "

Johnie co-invented and holds patents for Googles "Hands-free transaction" technology, which uses location and challenge requests for verification.

Personality Overview

Very Quick

Risk-Taker

Strong-Willed

They are not focused on building rapport and relationships.  They are very proud of what they do. They like to be in a position where they can control the conversation and terms.

Topics They Care About

FinTech Products
He has spent his career using technology to make financial products better and more accessible, from Google Wallet to Uber's financial suite.
Payments Infrastructure
Passionate about building accessible payment infrastructure, focusing on card issuance, transaction processing, and money movement.
Scaling Engineering Teams
Focuses on building high-performance teams and is actively hiring engineers who can take ownership and ship real products end-to-end.

Media Appearances

Johnie has no verified media appearances

Work History

6-2024
Director of Engineering - Privacy.com at Lithic
10-2022 - 1-2024
Director of Engineering - Payments at Level
3-2019 - 3-2023
Venture Advisor (FinTech) at Green Cow Venture Capital
2-2022 - 9-2022
Head of Payments at AtoB
11-2020 - 2-2022
Head of Financial Products -- Engineering Lead at Uber

Education

2015 - 2017
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from The Wharton School
9-1999 - 12-2002
BS from Columbia University

More Information

Social Presence :

Prographics :

Exp : 8 Location : Mountain View, California, United States Job Level : Mid-senior Designation : Director of Engineering - Privacy.com at Lithic
URL has been copied!

Insights For Selling To Johnie

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Be respectful but crisp
  • Hold your ground without indulging in one-upmanship
  • Speak about competitive differentiation that your product offers

DONT's

  • Avoid being too verbose
  • Don't try too hard to forge relationships with them
  • Do not hesitate from asking counter questions, just avoid challenging their authority

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Johnie is

  • Confidence in impact is paramount to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Johnie

  • If they decide not to go ahead, they will say no without hesitation.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Johnie move?

  • They can take decisions very fast if you manage to convince them.
  • Can Johnie take some risk or not?

  • The risks don’t matter much to them.

You And Johnie

Personality Compatibility


Other Lithic Employees

Explore more public profiles from related professionals at the same organization.

More Profiles

Discover additional public profiles from our index.

Search more profiles

Looking for someone else? Search here for anyone.

Or visit Humantic AI to know more.