About

Hi, I’m Alex.

I’m a product leader, and what I care about most is building things that make people smile.

The part I never get tired of is the psychology underneath it. Where trends start, why people pick one thing over another, what makes someone come back tomorrow. Ten-plus years in product management across streaming, social, ad tech, infrastructure and payments, and that question has been the same in every one of them.

Along the way I took my startup from four people to 175.

I can’t wait to find out where the next ten years go, as long as it’s a product that keeps bringing people together.

Open to Director, Group PM and Principal product roles

Alex McCarthy, sitting in a director’s chair with a cup of coffee

Off the clock

That’s the work. This is the rest of it.

Alex and his twin brother in black tie, side by side on a garden path

There are two of me.

Same job, other seat

My twin brother does what I do, with a focus on UX design. It has given us the chance to complement each other. We make a great team.

Alex at the finish of the Carlsbad half marathon, holding up the finisher medal

26.2, once.

Mile 21

I love to run. At mile 21 my body hated me. I am still planning on running a second one.

Alex on a walkway inside the Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City, stacks running away in every direction

I love to travel.

Mexico City, twice

I fell in love with Mexico because of the architecture, the coffee and the food. And it is so easy to get to.

That flight isn’t travel.
That’s where my mom lives.

And Ireland.

Not a trip

I will drive a long way for a good cortado, and I have.

Coffee’s on me Email Back to the work