Cody Musser Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

Product @ Studio - We exist to design and build products with founders and brands that solve problems. Nothing more; Nothing less.Clients/projects: QVC, Black Rifle Coffee Company, Fahlo, Creatively, et al.

Product lead for shoppable video and influencer marketing conversion boosting software for retail brands.

Providing product leadership and agency management for founders.Two rules to live by:1. If you're a non-technical or non-product founder, please bring in someone that can help you see the forest and the trees. You need someone that speaks the language of business, development, design, marketing and PRODUCT. Someone that makes sure your laser focus doesn't cost you something else.2. If you're going to hire agencies to help build your product, and you've never worked with agencies at scale for design, development or similar -- PLEASE bring in someone that has, to ensure that you have a good agency experience and get the value and outcome you need.

New York, Ny, Us

Helping build a support system for those recovering or affected by cancer and their loved ones.

New York, Us

Leading the Jakt digital studio in helping our partners succeed. Led Jakt as we grew from $1.7M in 2018 to $4M in 2019. Helped build out our studio structure, sales ops and studio product and project roles and responsibilities while we worked with clients like:- CITYROW- Buffy- Serial Box- Jennifer Fisher Jewelry- Spot & Tango- VR World- Others at http://byjakt.comNominated for best tech manager (NYC) by the Timmy Awards. We sold Jakt in June 2019 to HappyFunCorp -- supported existing and new projects post-sale and ongoing sales through May 2020.

New York, Us

I lead the Jakt digital studio teams in implementing product, strategy, design, project management, engineering and marketing for partner projects.

I'm the Head of Design and user experience for eSports interfaces at Stage.gg, using Riot's League of Legends APIs to create stronger insights for eSports audiences, including players and fans.Stage.gg was acquired by Mobalytics in November, 2017.

CPO @ Organize.org helping create the first national organ donor registry and associated products (APIs, social network integrations and products for Organ Procurement Organizations). Organize.org products have been built and released with partners including Microsoft, Johns Hopkins Transplant Center, University of Chicago Medicine, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the White House and the White House Organ Donor Summit, Facebook, Twitter and others.https://organize.org/tech-page/https://organize.org/advocacy/https://organize.org/press-awards/

New York, Ny, Us

I help lead product for non-technical founders and early-stage startups. At FounderTherapy I helped develop the Founder's Blueprint, an evaluation exercise to assist early-stage founders better position and prepare their company for investment and engineering and product execution -- and the Field Study, an ethnographic research exercise used to help identify gaps in team execution and opportunities for innovation at larger organizations.I led product for more than 6 startups over my first 2 years at FounderTherapy (with a max of 4 concurrent), working with internal teams from the size of a solo founder to more than 25+ employees, leading my own embedded engineering teams in product management, project management and (often) UX/UI and visual design. I've created hundreds of pages of technical specifications, thousands of user stories and have been responsible for projects that generated nearly $100k MRR for FounderTherapy.

New York, Ny, Us

First company hire and Head of Product for a monthly membership ereading platform wherein responsibilities included UI/UX of mobile application and web experience, offshore team management for up to 20 developers, recruiting department leads for marketing and design, and feature definition and design of a full ecommerce bookstore, iPad application, monthly subscription membership model, sales reporting system and more. Brought product to market in a national retail partnership with presence in Target stores across America.Librify was acquired by Scribd in Summer 2015.

Founder at GrubSpy -- A short-lived boutique agency offering social media and events services to New York small and mid-size restaurants and restaurant groups.

Newburyport, Massachusetts, Us

December 2011 - June 2012 - Marketing ManagerJune 2012 - February 2013 - Product Manager (Social)Originally hired as a community manager for Bookish, I was quickly promoted to product manager to influence more change in social and user-centric product design. Bookish is a joint venture startup owned by Penguin, S&S and Hachette with the goal of helping readers find new and better books to read. I managed a team of offshore developers in an Agile/Scrum setting as well as relationships with vendors and agencies. My product philosophy has contributed to creative problem solving in an industry where data is vast and non-uniform. I assisted as an editor for the editorial staff to better understand their product needs and for barrels of fun.Bookish was acquired by Zola Books in late 2013.

I created and built a community niche-centric site that doubled as a blog and a marketing tactic for Pikimal (a fact-based search startup of 15 employees). I founded Piki Geek, a gaming site that within its first eight months surpassed one million visits and well over three times that in hits, 2000 posts and nearly 8000 comments. Piki Geek has reached as high as a Top 20 video game blog based on Technorati authority. We created original video content, audio reviews and a (short-lived) podcast with only one other full-time employee.Moving on to direct marketing endeavors for Pikimal, I led a program of public/press outreach, SEO and marketing experiments to increase traffic. Since I’ve led marketing, traffic from search has increased 10x and continues to increase at a rate of 50 percent growth week-over-week. I also managed multiple social media channels for Piki Geek and Pikimal, planned promotions and event attendances at premier industry events such as TechCrunch Disrupt. Pikimal was a define-your-own-role startup environment in which I excelled at finding the right team to support me, define and achieve my own goals.

South Burlington, Vt, Us

Represented the Magic Hat brand at multiple venues by entertaining patrons with games, promotions and samples. Solidified pitching skills and public speaking with a focus on brand awareness by interacting with thousands of consumers in a one-on-one setting. Memorized and became passionate about brand ideology and product knowledge.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

LeftRight Studios is a Pittsburgh developer of iPhone and iPad games. I led the creation of all press materials surrounding a product launch, including website copy, press releases, email pitches, forum posts and social media tactics. I created a press list of over 250 mobile gaming and iOS-centric blogs and websites and various contacts at each. Also, I assisted in game design and concept development for titles, and elevator speech writing for potential contracts with clients (LeftRight Studios often created iOS software for consumer brands like Nestle and others).

Launched social media platforms for a cultural arts organization and non-profit film festival. Participated in street team marketing activities and planned and executed a red carpet gala event with 200+ attendees.

Originally a freelance content writer without pay, I was promoted multiple times to reviews and then features editor (still without pay) for the handheld-centric site Modojo. I led and participated in the building of a database of games and game cheats/tricks as supplemental site content to encourage repeat visitors. I edited copy for site content from writers that have since moved on to industry-leading game sites including 1UP and IGN. I also wrote and marketed articles to leading game sites that have, to this day, maintained the most popular content ever published on Modojo.