Team Spotlight: Greg Moore

Name: Greg Moore
Title: Head of Product
Department: Product
Tenure with PickTrace: Since 2021

RAPID FIRE:

• Grew Up In: I grew up outside of London, but really spent most of my childhood between London and the US before I spent high school in Weston, Connecticut. 
• Currently Lives In: Los Angeles, CA
• Star Sign: Aquarius 
• When you’re snacking, do you go savory or sweet?: Sweet. I’m a candy guy – usually whatever 7-11 reward I have will be cashed in. Typically those mini powdered donuts, Haribo, Twizzlers. 
• Go-to Karaoke song?: You Get What Give – New Radicals
• What’s the most useful product you’ve purchased recently?: Ember mug that keeps my coffee warm.

You have a background in industrial design, how does that influence your current work?

• At its core, industrial design is product development. The foundation of it shares the same user research principles that we apply to building software products.
• Being good at understanding a customer’s problem and being innovative to solve that problem is very transferable – whether it’s with a physical product or a digital one.

What made you transition from physical products to software?

• In undergrad I had some friends who were building apps. I saw the pace at which they were able to build and deploy ideas and I wanted to do that.

   

What’s a favorite memory from your 3 years at PickTrace?

• I think my time working with the Field Pack crew was a really bright spot in my time here. Working hand in hand with Ella, Petey, and Kevin Plaut was a lot of fun. Up until that point I had primarily been doing research, which is a very individual sport, and I loved pivoting into a crew ‘team sport’ setting
• The past 6 months in Paycard-land, it’s been super fun to work with a new crew and be in the nitty-gritty of a new product

What are your hobbies and passions outside of work? 

• The honest answer is I don’t – in my outside time I’m nerding out on startup and product content. I’m reading, tinkering, and building small things. Typically I’m building stuff to practice skill sets – I’ll spend a lot of time in Figma designing apps just for fun. Just practicing reps in those tools.  
• The bulk of my free time goes towards reading. I have a particular fondness for the private equity world and learning about the titans of that space. 

Do you have any guiding principles or quotes that you live by?

• If you had asked me three years ago, I would’ve had a response – but lately I don’t. I don’t really have a mission statement that guides my day to day.
• I have a million and one goals, but not necessarily a set of principles

If you were a fruit or vegetable what would you be and why?

• Kiwi. From what I understand, as to what’s written on the outside of the packaging, they’re extremely nutrient dense but don’t have the respect they deserve in the produce kingdom. I like the idea of unsuspected value.