Derek Wood

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Curious, entrepreneurial, product, design, business and AI leader. @ Contact Harald
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australia
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About Derek Wood

I draw upon decades of product leadership and IC experience to maximise business outcomes, deliver user value and build happy, highly productive teams. My approach to product craft draws on many guides and mentors (Marty Cagan, Melissa Perri, Jeff Patton & Teresa Torres to name a few), as well as deep experience with agile, lean, and CCD methodologies. I use these tools and frameworks both as a player, to identify priority opportunities and deliver value, and as a coach to create and manage high performing teams. I've managed Product, Design and Data teams of up to 70 as a company leader in mostly B2B SaaS product startups and scaleups earning ARR up to $100m.Specialities: 1 - Product vision & strategy in line with company goals2 - Leading product execution and delivery3 - Collaborative & inclusive cross functional work practices

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Curious, entrepreneurial, product, design, business and AI leader.
Derek Wood Work Experience Details
  • Contact Harald
    Head Of Ai Product
    Contact Harald May 2024 - Present
    Darlinghurst , Nsw, Au
  • Umano
    Investor & Product Consultant
    Umano Apr 2023 - Present
    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)
  • T-Shirt Ventures
    Head Of Product
    T-Shirt Ventures Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
    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)
  • Secure Code Warrior
    Vp Of Product
    Secure Code Warrior Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
    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)
  • Septa Pty Ltd
    Ceo & Founder
    Septa Pty Ltd May 2017 - Jun 2019
    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/
  • Pragmateam (Pty Ltd)
    Principal Consultant
    Pragmateam (Pty Ltd) Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
    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
  • Dius
    Principal Product Manager
    Dius Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
    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
  • Commonwealth Bank
    Director Of Product Management
    Commonwealth Bank Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
    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.
  • Objective Corporation
    Principal Product Manager
    Objective Corporation Jun 2012 - Feb 2015
    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.
  • Lumata
    Head Of Product
    Lumata May 2010 - Jun 2012
    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.
  • Computershare
    Senior Product Manager
    Computershare Apr 2008 - May 2010
    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.
  • Computershare
    Product Manager
    Computershare Apr 2004 - Apr 2008
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
    Product Manager responsible for Global Employee Web within Computershare Technology Services.
  • Computershare
    Team Leader, Client Solutions
    Computershare 2003 - Apr 2004
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
    Lead a team of technical specialists and project managed various events and activities.
  • Computershare
    Nsw Agm Technical Support Manager
    Computershare 2001 - 2003
    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.

Derek Wood Skills

Product Management Business Analysis Management Strategy Business Process Agile Methodologies Scrum Analysis Vendor Management Enterprise Software Web Applications Mobile Marketing Integration Stakeholder Management Business Requirements Requirements Analysis Requirements Gathering Mobile Devices Sales Business Strategy Payments Online Sales Ivr Solutions Marketing Mobile Solutions Agile Application Development Agile Web Development Facilitation Financial Services Banking Agile Leadership Program Management Coaching Executive Coaching Leadership Product Development Design Thinking Software Product Management Cross Functional Team Leadership E Commerce

Derek Wood Education Details

  • Scaled Agile
    Scaled Agile
    Leading Safe
  • Scrum Alliance
    Scrum Alliance
    Agile Software Development
  • Scrum Alliance
    Scrum Alliance
    Certified Scrummaster
  • Jeff Patton
    Jeff Patton
    Product Management
  • Volere Requirements
    Volere Requirements
    Business Analysis
  • Australian Institute Of Management
    Australian Institute Of Management
    Frontline Management
  • Western Sydney University
    Western Sydney University
    E-Business
  • Sydney Technical High
    Sydney Technical High

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