Jake Owen Email & Phone Number

Jake Owen is a Group Product Manager at Instructure. Colleagues describe him as "I had the pleasure of working for Jake Owen at ClassLink, Inc., where he was both my direct supervisor and the product manager for the Analytics product team on which I was a senior engineer. With his skilled strategizing and prioritization of needs, professionalism, and valuable leadership qualities, I sincerely recommend Jake as both a leader and a Product Manager, and know he would make an excellent addition to any organization. Good leaders help their teams grow, and encourage the best from those who they manage directly. As his direct report, he fully supported my growth as an engineer, and helped me shape my skills and abilities as a mentor. Great leaders, however, better every team they work with by creating a positive impact and encouraging growth from all who work alongside them. Jake is one such rare and valuable leader, who models professional excellency and bettered every space he was a part of. His value to all teams was widely felt and spoken of highly, because he led with expertise, professionalism, empathy, and a contagious drive to problem solve and grow. In my time working with Jake, I saw him tackle complex prioritization and feature development requirements of rapidly shifting needs and demands of an educational software product. Our product was quickly growing and changing shape as a result of customer demands and development needs. Jake handled every aspect with keen skill, business acumen, and wise foresight, breaking down large-scale efforts and planning product changes with ease. His management led to improved predictability and planning, clearer feature definition and scoping of product requirements, and a smoother relationship between product and engineering. I know Jake will make an excellent addition to any team he is on. I recommend him most sincerely, and with the greatest confidence that he will add immediate, tangible value to any team he joins." and "I worked closely with Jake for five years and I cannot say enough great things about him. His ability to manage a project from simple technical setup to large and complex product migrations is unparalleled. He’s able to balance both internal and external expectations and anticipate potential roadblocks and address them early. I’ve seen him grow into an employee who not only manages projects but people and teams as well. He instills trust with his colleagues across multiple departments and quickly becomes the subject matter expert. Jake was able to provide hundreds of K-12 school districts with more reliable data to ensure successful learning and arm his colleagues with the expertise needed to address concerns from clients in a thorough manner that built trust in the company overall. His thoroughness and management of complexities puts everyone at ease and provides confidence to all regardless of expertise. He brings calm to the chaos and everyone loves working with him. Jake’s work continued to pay dividends beyond his tenure at Instructure and I look forward to seeing the many positive impacts he’ll continue to make in his career."

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  Utah Valley University

  Data Modeling/Warehousing And Database Administration