Jessica Jensen, OpenTable and Kayak

Sr. VP Marketing

Former Facebook Employee

Jessica Jensen is the Senior Vice President of Marketing for OpenTable and KAYAK. With a strong appetite for travel and dining, she oversees restaurant marketing and consumer marketing for both brands. Her focus includes growing their business, driving international expansion and helping consumers discover and book the perfect restaurant table or trip.

Jessica joined the team from Facebook, where she led global positioning, marketing strategy and communications for Facebook’s family of business offerings as their Head of Products, Platforms & Insights. She led the teams that launched and grew Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Workplace, and more. Before Facebook, Jessica was the Global Head of Product Marketing for iAd, a division of Apple. There she oversaw product development and marketing of the iAd mobile advertising suite. Preceding her time at Apple, Jessica was Vice President of Lifestyles within the US Media Group of Yahoo! She served as the General Manager and VP of Yahoo! Shine and Yahoo! Health. Jessica was also Senior Vice President of Marketing and BD for Investor’s Business Daily. She started her professional career at The Boston Consulting Group in Los Angeles working with the world’s largest companies as they embraced the digital world.

Jessica holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Masters of International Relations from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A. from Amherst College. She is a passionate proponent of strong women’s voices and mentoring future female business leaders. She has a hilarious horse-crazy daughter, two shih tzus and a tree-hugger husband who works for The Nature Conservancy.

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