J. Challis Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

On a mission to help companies, cities, & communities achieve their climate goals by operationalizing energy, financial, and GhG emissions data.We empower customers to see and act on their data in real-time, to achieve their climate goals and cost savings through innovative solutions like Carbon Tools™ and Energy Tracker™- Led the end-to-end development and launch of core nZero product offerings including its first public portals, reporting tools, emissions dashboard, and a full app redesign while supporting the company in reaching 5X growth in enterprise accounts and a series A round.- Implemented agile processes and product development tools (Jira, Confluence, Asana, Datadog, Pendo) to help scale the product and engineering team from one pod to six.- Championed and led the adoption of key PM practices including OKRs, Jobs to Be Done, continuous discovery, competitive analysis, prioritization frameworks, and product council with executives.- Collaborated with customers, cross-functional internal stakeholders, and executives to define product strategy and scope, and execute the product roadmap.

Remote

Form Energy is developing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable and fully renewable electric grid year-round. The project was to create a web-based data pipeline platform that facilitates and streamlines data processing and delivery for internal use by scientists and engineers.• Owned the user experience and collaborated with project management, business stakeholders, end-users, and engineering, using agile/scrum, to ship a minimum viable product (MVP) that enables users to enter, track and manage data for technology development.• Assessed user pain points to prioritize, scope new features, and define the product roadmap in order to build and ship features aimed at increasing the robustness of experiment data and reducing entry errors to zero, essential steps to achieve technology breakthroughs.• Created onboarding and training material to enable users to seamlessly transition their workflows from previous processes to the new platform.(Via Toptal)

Remote

Toptal is an exclusive network of the top consultants in software development, design, finance, product management, and project management in the world. Top companies hire Toptal consultants for their most important projects.• Owned and contributed to the entire product development lifecycle of a suite of consumer and enterprise products focused on early-stage growth in a variety of industries including healthcare, management, finance, law, real estate, manufacturing and consumer tech.• Worked cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, finance, operations, and sales to elicit requirements, write user stories, determine priority, and generate solutions for a management tool that collated KPI’s in a series of dashboards designed to increase performance transparency saving managers 1-2 hours per week, and maintain customer service satisfaction over 80%.• Created design systems, final product designs, and worked closely with engineering on implementation to ship a health tech platform devised to allow ER doctors to communicate remotely with nurses and increase their production per day by up to 50%.• Defined user personas, wireframed and prototyped concepts, conducted user research and testing sessions in order to create MVP prototypes that solved user pain points and allowed two startup founders to raise several million dollars in investment capital.• Conducted market research, competitive analysis, and worked with key stakeholders to create product marketing sites and branding allowing clients to attract and land many large enterprise contracts.

Bali Province, Indonesia

Kaji Mundo collaborates with artisans and businesses in South East Asia to form a sustainable system of craftsmanship from seed to store. They explore the use and management of raw materials and techniques in traditional craft and innovate to create new products for the sustainable textile market. • Led the end-to-end development and marketing of physical and digital products and experiences focused on increasing awareness of sustainability concerns in the textile and design space.• Defined the product vision, with a primary objective to build a community and influence people in the textile and creative space and established new partnerships and connections with 16 organizations and brought together over 400 people through various events and experiences.• Performed market research, competitive analysis, analyzed quantitative sales and marketing data to create product budgets and pricing which led to an increase in margins by 40%.• Led customer interviews and user testing, to inform iterative product development to create product roadmaps and launch six products. • Planned marketing campaigns, created and managed various marketing channels including website, social media, and print which led to selling out of 70% of ticketed public events.

Austin, Texas

IBM is a global technology company that provides hardware, software, cloud-based services, and cognitive computing. IBM Cloud offers infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS) offered through public, private, and hybrid cloud delivery models, in addition to the components that make up those clouds.• Led and participated in creating and reimagining enterprise products following design thinking practices and agile methodology in order to improve user experience and retain users while acquiring new contracts.• Facilitated design thinking workshops for clients, internal stakeholders, and worldwide business leaders giving them the tools to think in a user-focused way, create user journey maps and align product roadmaps to user needs.• Designed a dashboard to merge an acquired platform into IBM’s existing cloud platform to create a unified experience for thousands of users that allowed them to build/access both public and private clouds, with SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS options. • Created and launched an MVP mobile version of IBM’s cloud platform for iOS and Android, increasing user convenience, and allowing users to restart applications from anywhere.