FEATURED PRODUCT ROLES
INDUSTRY: DATA PRIVACY
Wirewheel: Product Manager
March 2022 - April 2023
Remote / Washington, D.C.
Product lead for a new flagship data privacy product, a B2B SaaS platform with consumer-facing elements:
• Drove new platform development from ideation to general availability and enterprise adoption.
o Used market research and competitive analysis to develop and implement a GTM strategy in collaboration with Marketing, Sales, and executive leadership, generating six-figure ARR subscriptions among our first customers.
o Coordinated regular company-wide communication and collaboration on the platform, including among Research & Development, Sales, Customer Success and executive leadership.
o Managed design and prioritization for two teams: one (5 team members) focused on consumer UI; the other (9 team members) on architecture, admin functionality, third-party integrations, and API/SDK development and deployment.
o Translated requirements from customers, partners, data privacy SMEs, executive leadership and others into the backlog.
o Built, continuously maintained, and presented roadmaps for internal and external stakeholders, resulting in improved transparency across the board:
• Led design work at the company by managing day to day efforts of UX designers, mapping user journeys and flows, translating design requirements from business units, and ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of UI designs.
o Shortened the feedback loop between executive leadership, engineering, and design by creating and facilitating new cross-functional design reviews, which resulted in increasing the frequency of new feature delivery by over 100%.
• Improved release cadence by driving completion of a new developer portal and leading establishment of release notes process.
• Stabilized product pipeline for dev teams and external stakeholders by standardizing expectations for the flow of ideation to validation to design to build.
INDUSTRY: ENTERTAINMENT / STREAMING MEDIA
Kin + Carta: Associate Product Owner
October 2020 - April 2021
Remote / Denver, CO
Coordinated documentation for 6+ onshore and offshore teams in preparation for execution of domestic and international API integrations for a major US streaming media client.
o Recorded and reconciled requirements in Confluence between client and integration partners, which were major telecoms and cable providers in Europe, North America, and Latin America.
INDUSTRY: PERFORMING ARTS (NONPROFIT)
The Foundry: Project Manager
July 2018 - January 2022
Remote / Denver, CO
Generated detailed quantitative and qualitative metrics from over 80 experienced industry participants in order to research, design, build, and create a first-of-its-kind web-based community development space for one of the oldest opera companies in the United States.
Involved the design and implementation of quant/qual surveys, user research, user interviews, wireframes/mockups/prototyping, usability testing, and community organizing.
INDUSTRY: RENEWABLE ENERGY
Anderson Optimization: Product Owner (Product Manager)
June 2021 - March 2022
Remote / Boulder, CO
First Product leader hired at this successful SaaS/B2B org in the commercial solar greenfielding space of the renewable energy industry:
• Created the company’s first-ever Product roadmaps, providing both the 30k-foot and now/next/later perspectives.
• Mapped, documented, and led completion of development ecosystem; implemented company’s first product management platform.
• Standardized boards management and ticketing processes; led team cleanup and refinement of a 1-year-plus-old development backlog.
• Improved testing management in collaboration with QA, creating and documenting prerelease, production, and triage bug processes, which reduced cycle time by up to 30%, resulting in more rapid iterations and faster GTM.
• Improved release cadences by clarifying Kanban practices, introducing company’s first standups, and improving internal transparency.
INDUSTRY: JOURNALISM (NONPROFIT)
WhoWhatWhy: Product Analyst
July 2020 - January 2021
Remote / Denver, CO
Liaison between Operations and IT departments responsible for driving development of the company’s first-ever wiki-style intranet, which centralized records of research, ongoing and concluded projects, onboarding information for new employees, and repositories for general process templates and documentation.
o Conducted user interviews of internal stakeholders across editorial, marketing/sales, and executives to generate requirements.
o Led teams of developers and designers in daily standups to execute vision of senior leadership for the new platform.
o Post-launch, conducted “road shows” and trainings to foster adoption across 12+ internal departments.