Darren Linkstrom Email & Phone Number

Hartford, Ct, Us

Led and scaled a new product org in this business unit operating as a 'startup within'. Grew and managed a global product team from a solo contributor to a global team of four PMs, Senior PMs, and Analysts. Led a global product development squad of 20+ across engineering, design, QA, and data science. Accountable for performance and strategy impacting a global organizational footprint of 50+.Partnered with Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Research. Raised the bar for data/analytics across product.Gartner Digital Markets operates B2B Brands: Capterra, Software Advice, GetApp and UpCity.

Stamford, Ct

Stamford, Ct

Stamford, Ct

Co-founded Shoplandia, a venture backed video content, e-commerce, and ad tech startup. I was the product lead of the first shoppable video creation and streaming platform for retailers. I defined the experience and interaction for immersive shopping content and content creation app.

Digital delivery lead for Small Commercial Digital. Spearheaded the business case, planning, delivery, user acquisition and optimization of the first direct to consumer SMB Insurance offering for The Hartford, that services over 1 million small business customers.Planned go-to-market strategies and produced acquisition of 200K users in one year.Established and headed agile methodologies and channel management practices to monitor customer analytics & feedback and respond with product enhancements to ensure the delivery of $20M+ of benefits.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Member of The Hartford's Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP), which consists of varying 6-12 month rotations throughout the 2 year program.