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New York, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Led product team of 4 ICs for Series A Proptech startup. Developed product strategy to increase net contribution margin from -33% to 12% and scale revenue from 12MM to 25MM ARR in 2 years. Led company pivot from D2C to B2B2C. Product had NPS of 76 v. industry average of 10.

New York City, US

Launched first ever episodic insurance subscription and 3 new lines of business insurance to 10x customer LTV and 10x revenue. Won fast company's 2021 award for most innovative company with under 50 employees and best UX design for our iOS, Android, and Web products. Product had NPS of 76 v. industry average of 15.

New York City, US

Newark, NJ, US

• Shipped Audible on Alexa playback functionality in five new international markets (Canada, Australia, France, Japan, French Canadian) in seven months. Prior international PMs shipped three markets in prior three years.
• Reduced software development timelines for a new marketplace launch from six months to six weeks by identifying areas for operational efficiency improvement across UX, QA, and development teams. Worked with development.
• Shipped voice trial sign-up (e.g. “Alexa, sign me up for Audible”) and purchase with credit (e.g. “Alexa, buy this book”) features in the UK and Germany. Designed and implemented marketplace specific voice and visual.

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed product strategy and prioritized feature development for twelve month product roadmap with focus on subscriber growth and competitive feature differentiation. Defined requirements for roadmap features based.
• Designed and shipped the “music for activities” feature, allowing customers to request activity related music via voice (e.g., “Alexa, play classic rock music for cooking”). Worked with PR, marketing, merchandising.
• Designed and shipped the ‘music alarms’ feature for Alexa, allowing customers to request alarms to be set to music (e.g., “Alexa, wake me up at 6 am to the Beatles”). Feature was covered by 13 media outlets including.
• Managed all aspects of the Amazon Music on Alexa voice quality experience, from fixing bugs and broken requests to tracking and reporting on precision and recall metrics. Recommended and implemented CX changes for.
• Trained international voice product managers on Alexa technology and worked with international curation and product teams to define territory specific requirements aimed at creating culturally relevant customer.

Seattle, WA, US

• Enabled customer voice requests for music by genre, mood, tempo, and era. Managed editorial metadata creation and final implementation across technical and business teams.
• Managed machine learning model validation work streams to improve accuracy of mood related music requests. Designed A/B experiments to test quality of model training data to bring machine learning models to launch.
• Created MySQL schemas and wrote SQL queries to store and retrieve machine learning training data from third party provider for over 10 million songs, reducing operational burden on applied science team and centralizing.

Seattle, WA, US

• Founding content acquisition team member of Amazon Video subscription product.
• Developed key new processes to drive launch, including a data-based method for vendor prioritization. Worked with accounting, finance, marketing, and program management teams to ensure compliance with new contract.
• Negotiated over 25 subscription channel deals with new partners, including several of the service’s top subscriptions. Managed vendor relationship from initial contract discussions to fully approved deal terms to final.
• Implemented new system to centralize deal negotiation and deal term tracking process, eliminating over 20 hours of manual work each week for the content acquisition team.

Seattle, WA, US

• Invented scalable “selection gap” competitive monitoring process for identifying and securing missing titles from Amazon Video platform. Worked with studios and networks to deliver over 5K titles in six months.
• Negotiated deal terms and deal restatements with two of Amazon’s largest independent film providers (Relativity Media and Broadgreen Films) and managed business relationships for over 170 independent film accounts.
• Created new royalty reporting process for third party music licensors. Wrote SQL queries to compile Amazon Video’s inception to date streaming history for all films and TV shows. Worked with third party data engineers.
• Promoted to content acquisition manager II

US

• Categorized, summarized and reviewed talent and distribution agreements for television, film, merchandising, and digital products, ensuring accurate representation of deal points and contractual obligations
• Documented major changes in reporting requirements for over 20 settlement agreements and contract amendments to the film series Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Created overall summary of legal issues with the title to provide.
• Anticipated and researched legal questions caused by incomplete documentation and conflicting contractual information, interfacing with business and legal affairs to provide informed answers to management
• Co-managed closure of the MadTV production offices at request of division VP. Worked with division heads from across Warner Bros. to handle legal, financial, insurance, real estate, human resources, and archive issues
• Led team comprised of directors, managers, and senior staff through a 10 week project aimed at addressing social, cultural, training and logistical issues facing the division o Managed every facet of the project.
• Continued to perform job functions of an Analyst in a more challenging capacity as a New Line Cinema conversion team member – developed advanced excel skills through analyzing sizable data sets of financial conversion.

US

• Prepared highly confidential financial statements for several of WB’s most complex titles including Friends and ER. Improved efficiency in statement preparation processes and created step-by-step guide to assist future.
• Founding member of division training committee. Recommended changes to improve time-to-productivity for new-hires
• Corrected historically inaccurate financial reporting based on misinterpreted contractual stipulations
• Promoted to Senior Analyst in nine months

Bristol, CT, US

• Analyzed ESPN’s position in the worldwide TV market by creating an Excel database of international cable TV penetration rates. This analysis was used to determine unutilized markets for international expansion
• Presented self-created PowerPoint deck on global competition and ESPN’s largest growth opportunities. Repeated presentation at request of international finance director for every senior VP in the CT finance office
• Designed a reference database housing financial information, transactional histories, and content rights for over 45 international competitors, used to make informed investment decisions

New York, NY, US

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communications

Study Abroad, Economic Honors Program