Naomi Gleit is vice-president of social good and Senior Director of the Growth, Engagement, and Mobile Team at Facebook. She has been identified as Facebook's longest-serving employee after CEO Mark Zuckerberg, having been at the company from July 18, 2005 to the present.
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Early life and education
Gleit was born to a "tiger mom" who ferried her to ballet, piano, karate and Chinese lessons, and a Jewish father an immigration lawyer who took her to Hebrew school.
Gleit majored in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University, where she wrote her senior thesis on Facebook, and how it beat out rival social networking service Club Nexus at Stanford University (the creator of Club Nexus would later go on to create Orkut).
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Career
Gleit has spent her entire career at Facebook.
Marketing and growth team
After writing her senior thesis about Facebook, Gleit was bullish on Facebook's potential and applied to work there. She began work as a marketing associate on July 18, 2005, which was also her birthday. She came on board shortly after the company had hit 1 million users. In her role, Gleit promoted Facebook beyond colleges and to high schools, facilitating the eventual opening up of Facebook to all users. In 2007, Zuckerberg asked Gleit to become a product manager for the growth team, and she accepted. The growth team was led by Chamath Palihapitiya. In 2009, Gleit, describing her job to Newsweek, said "My job isn't done until literally everyone in the world is on the site."
Facebook Safety Check
Gleit was part of the team that worked on and released Facebook Safety Check in 2014, inspired by people's use of social media to connect with friends and family in the wake of the 2011 T?hoku earthquake and tsunami. Putting this initiative in a broader context, Gleit later told Fast Company: "[Zuckerberg] wants us to take this data-driven, product-driven approach and apply that to other problems because it's not unique, per se, to growth". Gleit continues to be in charge of Facebook Safety Check.
Social good team, including Fundraisers and other initiatives
At the Social Good Summit in New York City on September 27, 2015, Gleit announced that Facebook was creating a team dedicated to social good. Gleit's title would change to vice-president for social good.
Under Gleit's leadership, Facebook, in 2016 and 2017, rolled out support for Fundraisers, including nonprofits fundraising for themselves, as well as individuals setting up fundraisers for personal causes and nonprofits they want to support.
Gleit has also led Facebook's efforts to team up with other social good efforts, such as Chimehack, a partnership with Gucci and Global Citizen.
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