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NotionIvan ZhaoAnnouncement
Meet (again) Max Schoening, Notion's new CTO
Summary
Notion appointed Max Schoening as CTO, reflecting its ethos of merging technology with liberal arts and integrating engineering and design as one job. Schoening, who joined last year, led product and design and shipped significant launches including Custom Agents for everyday knowledge workers and the Developer Platform allowing extensions. His background includes early design at Heroku, Cloud Run at Google, and six and a half years at GitHub working on Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, and cloud development environments used by millions. He advocates open customer-first platforms, and Notion’s open, agent-neutral context aims to benefit customers from small coffee businesses to large global enterprises balancing innovation, token costs, and governance at scale. As a two-time founder, Schoening embodies the multidisciplinary approach Notion values, and the company hires people whose work cuts across traditional discipline boundaries.
Context
Notion’s ethos is that technology meets the liberal arts, treating engineering and design as integrated disciplines. Max Schoening, who joined Notion last year, has been product and design leader and shipped Custom Agents for everyday knowledge workers and the Developer Platform for extending Notion. His background includes running design early at Heroku, working on Cloud Run at Google, and six and a half years at GitHub working on Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, and cloud development environments. He is a two-time founder and believes in open platforms that put customers first. Notion is hiring people whose work cuts across traditional discipline boundaries.
Takeaways
Max Schoening’s background includes running design early at Heroku, working on Cloud Run at Google, and six and a half years at GitHub working on Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, and cloud development environments.
Under Schoening’s product and design leadership, Notion shipped Custom Agents for knowledge workers and a Developer Platform for extending Notion.
Notion’s ethos is that engineering and design are not separate jobs, and the company is hiring people whose work cuts across traditional discipline boundaries.
FAQ
What is Max Schoening's background?
He ran design early at Heroku, worked on Cloud Run at Google, and spent six and a half years at GitHub working on Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, and cloud development environments. He is also a two-time founder.
What major launches did Schoening oversee at Notion?
He oversaw the launch of Custom Agents for everyday knowledge workers and the Developer Platform that lets people and agents extend Notion to fit how they work.
What is Notion's hiring philosophy?
Notion hires people whose work and taste cut across traditional discipline boundaries, and the org chart of the future will have fewer boundaries between disciplines.
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