Rent-A-Center, Inc. announced Ms. Jen You has been elected to board of directors (Board) as a new independent director, effective January 26, 2022. Ms. You is an accomplished technology executive. Ms. You currently serves as head of product for Uber Rides, Prior to her current position, Ms. You served as VP Growth for RippleX Platform, from April 2020 to January 2021.

VP technology products, growth & monetization strategy, for WeWork, from October 2018 to April 2020 and VP product & operations for united masters, from December 2016 to August 2018. Prior to that, she served various product and business roles at Facebook, from 2012 to 2016. In 2020, Ms. You led the launch of a new open-source payment protocol called PayID.