Director Of Product Management
CurrentManaged over 80+ digital Products across 20+ business verticals with budgets ranging from $5k - $200k+. • Managed a staff of 4 Product Managers and held weekly 1:1 meetings with the PM team.• Participated in the PM hiring process.• Developed Tanooki’s agile software process and created management documentation and training plans for the PM and other departments.• Led EOS/Rocks process with both the C-Suite team and PM team level to further the company and department's goals.• Took ownership of project life cycles, including scoping, budgeting, and execution.• Set up project forecasting (resource planning) and detailed project budgets in Harvest + Forecast.• Review high-level project requirements and create project estimates.• Wrote and specified tickets for designers and developers based on project estimates.• Assisted clients in setting up services and tools for development and project management.• Worked with a wide array of entrepreneurs across various verticals.• Created wireframes or rough mocks to assist with product definition and stakeholder buy-in• Conducted extensive quality assurance of features pushed to staging and production for all software projects I was on• Coordinated production deployments with the team and stakeholders.• Created operational and project processes for client engagements.• Led development-focused staff (Ruby on Rails, iOS, React, React-Native)• Led cross-functional teams of developers, designers, and 3rd party stakeholders• Managed product builds from idea to MVP launch while working closely with NYC-based entrepreneurs.• Managed multiple concurrent projects and clients in a fast-paced environment.• Led and ran standups, demos, IPMs, and retrospectives.