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Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, TX, US

• Lead product strategy and execution for early-stage, innovative UGC platform in agile business and development environment
• Leading role in defining go-to-market strategy and execution across multiple verticals
• Early-stage startup product leadership covering all aspects of product management and marketing including market research, user testing, strategic roadmap initiatives, detailed requirement definition, testing, market.
• Direct responsibility for strategic customer accounts managing customer relationships, defining strategic integrations and maximizing existing and new revenue opportunities
• Lead account relationship and deployment for strategic accounts like TGIFridays, Car2Go, Viking Cruises, SunPower, TravelStore, Asurion, and Summit Sports
• Responsible for technical partners and integrations, leading effort to integrate with leading e- commerce platforms like Magento, BigCommerce and Shopify, as well as other 3rd party platforms

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Lead strategy and execution for 2 business units with over 70 employees and 3 product lines representing $12 million+ annual revenue
• Directed new business strategy for world-class enterprise community platform, Pluck, with customers across North America and EMEA including USAToday, Target, Southwest Airlines, McClatchy, Walgreens, XO Group, L'Oreal.
• Responsible for product, engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, operations and G&A for $10 million+ business
• Teams based in Austin, Santa Monica, Toronto and London
• Complete P&L responsibility
• Lead through divestiture of 2 business units: Pluck to Sprinklr and CoveritLive to ScribbleLive

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Lead business strategy and execution for leading live-blog and realtime social engagement platform, serving enterprise customers like Yahoo!, NFL, NBA, Eurosport, Build.de, The Times, TSN, ESPN, MacWorld, USAToday and.
• Lead pre-revenue acquisition to $3 million annual run-rate prior to divesture
• Complete P&L responsibility
• Grew revenue by average of 60% year over year
• Expanded enterprise customer base through new customers and account expansion
• Launched and grew self-serve freemium offering

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Developed and executed new freemium and enterprise revenue strategies
• Integrated remote Toronto-based acquired team into Demand Media Social Products business unit
• Directed product re-launch with new EventStudio user interface and LiveWall interaction formats, new branding, pricing and packaging
• Lead pre-revenue acquisition to profitable business unit
• Expanded team with dedicated EMEA presence, established customer success and marketing teams

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Lead product strategy, outbound and inbound product management for 3 product lines: enterprise community platform Pluck, real-time blogging and social engagement platform CoveritLive, and content creation, hosting and.
• Collaboration across business stakeholders to create strategic roadmap, educate internally and communicate with customers
• Worked closely with engineering to define business and technical requirements, user experience and acceptance criteria for strategic and tactical roadmap initiatives
• Worked with strategic customers and Customer Success team to prioritize roadmap initiatives, identify new revenue opportunities and maximize customer retention
• Collaborated with sales and business development to identify new solutions for emerging prospect opportunities

Austin, Texas, US

• Defined product strategy for innovative content syndication platform, BlogBurst
• Generated detailed business, user experience and technical requirements for engineering
• Prototyped content and community R&D initiatives that lead to pre and post acquisition projects when acquired by Demand Media in March 2008
• Lead effort for first integrated product offering between Pluck and Demand Media core media business, post acquisition of Pluck
• Lead effort for multiple new integrated content, community and advertising product offerings with Demand Media domain and hosting business, eNom, post acquisition of Pluck

• Lead product strategy from early stage content and web management platform to 4 product lines
• Determined product offerings, features, functionality, strategy and generated requirements for Web Content, Membership Management and related software applications
• Lead the coordination and implementation of all technological aspects related to software applications including deployment, hosting environment, development infrastructure, database architecture, interface design, and.
• Compiled, prioritized and incorporated customer requests into future releases outlined by product roadmaps
• Lead sales engineering and lead escalation point for technical support advanced issue resolution
• Hands-on technical leader, contributing to development effort and leading integration for accounting systems and payment gateway integrations

Alexandria, Virginia, US

• Developed web-based and client-server applications designed for association and non-profit industry membership management utilizing VB, ColdFusion and.NET technologies.
• Lead development for first online membership dues invoicing and payment system.
• Key development role in new interface and platform conversion for next-generation version of industry-leading iMis membership management system

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