Derek Wood Email & Phone Number

Darlinghurst , Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

As an investor & product leader in this AI product startup I: - Evolved the product vision, built the product strategy & roadmap and supported funding activities - Defined our ideal customer profile then refined our GTM strategy accordingly - This nearly doubled recurring revenue in a down market - Funnel conversion 12x'd (awareness to activation) - This was achieved while leading numerous business functions (Eng, Data, AI & Design)

Surry Hills, New South Wales, Au

In this digital health tech company enabling people living with disability to thrive I led the Product and Data teams to: - Build a successful first generation health tech marketplace product from scratch - Quickly find PMF growing from zero to hundreds of recurring paying users in months in a limited volume target market (success measured by Sean Ellis test & utilisation growth) - Then significantly enhance retention (by multiples) and gross market value (revenue) - While I established, led & grew the Product & Data functions (hiring, managing, coaching, tech enablement etc)

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

In this cybersecurity B2B SaaS company, after establishing the product strategy and outcomes based roadmap I led and grew a globally dispersed team of Product, Design and Data individuals to become a world class team achieving world class results such as: - Revenue growth multiples (including personally owning a price and package increase directly resulting in significant revenue growth without increasing sales cycle time) - CAC reduction (mainly via onboarding improvements via my Growth product group) - LTV increase (via engagement and thus retention increase via my Play, Learn, Visualise & Measure product groups) - Significant NPS uplift via new product line success (increasing company valuation multiples)

Barangaroo, New South Wales, Au

Founded & ran my own tech consulting company (Product, Design & Engineering) using cutting edge tech and strategy to enable customer successes such as with:- Easy Agile - Led the Product & Design function, established the product strategy & enhanced ways of working (ROI on people).- ANZ Bank - Led the build of an AI powered cashflow prediction product for small business. Delivered this in 6 months in a cloud environment within a bank!- Qantas - Led the Qantas mobile app tech team to double revenue YoY and increase app store ratings (3.3 >4.2)- Deputy & NIB Health - Coached Product, Design & Engineering to deliver high impact work such as AI powered chatbot. Awarded the Deputy "Unicorn award" for my outstanding results.- GoGetFit - Led the establishment and growth of a health tech startup resulting in millions of hours of healthy habits for Canadians recovering from disease https://www.goget.fit/

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Working with the Pragmateam crew to provide lean, pragmatic digital product strategy, leadership, transformation and agile coaching services.I led the digital transformation at Tyro by: - Partnering with the exec leadership team to plan & deliver organisational strategy & roadmap - Led the delivery the top priority company initiatives - Led the delivery of one priority product solution to market in 3 weeks which resulted in rapid and significant impact to customers (Tap & Save) - While coaching all Product & Engineering team leaders to enhance their craft and multiply their impact

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Worked closely with customers in an agile manner to quickly understand wicked problems and build the right thing (product) by making pivot, persevere or perish decisions early & regularly. I led DiUS technology experts deliver impactful solutions promptly to provide customers ongoing, sustainable value & skills uplift to do it without me next time.Key result: - Led the Qantas mobile app team to increase app up time from <70% to > 99.99% -YoY doubling of revenue while under my leadership

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Leading cross functional teams utilising customer centric design and agile delivery via the CBA Innovation Lab for an internal startup focussing on institutional clients i.e. running a number of startup experiments to find product market fit. Two of my four experiments achieved exit velocity, got CBA funding and grew into successful new product suites in CBA.

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

Leading the Objective ECM Web & Mobile product suite I drove the strategy & roadmap by understanding customer/market problems and delivering valuable solutions in an agile manner with a number of cross functional teams which grew customer numbers of the primary target metrics - adoption & retention.

London, London, Gb

Leading product, strategy & development with a team of 5 product managers owning the performance, growth and agile development of a suite of mobile e-commerce and marketing products. These facilitated purchase of digital products (such as pre paid recharge) and marketing in the mobile industry via mobile, web and IVR channels for Optus and Telstra.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Responsible for online systems within the Computershare Technology Services group.March 2010 secondment: Migration of HBoS (UK acquisition) into Computershare systems. Analysing complex global plans in order to place them best in Computershare systems & develop solutions where required.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Product Manager responsible for Global Employee Web within Computershare Technology Services.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Lead a team of technical specialists and project managed various events and activities.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Managed off site infrastructure, software & official ballot count for the majority of large annual general meetings in NSW including AMP, IAG, Macquarie, NAB, WBC etc.

Leading Safe

Certified Scrum Product Owner, Agile Software Development

Certified Scrummaster

Product Management

Mastering The Requirements Process, Business Analysis

Diploma Of Business, Frontline Management

Commerce, E-Business

Education record