✨ Jessica Sweeney Email & Phone Number

United States

Offering experienced guidance for executive teams who need to focus their market strategy or mature their product operations in the Start-Up and Scale-Up phases. I can help you navigate tricky Agile transformations, and to walk the tightrope of revenue growth and delivery capacity. Wondering if you need me? Book a time to chat and let's see: calendly.com/jessica-sweeney

San Diego, California, Us

Founded the San Diego version of ProductCamp: a free, user-driven, collaborative “unconference” for Product people. Recruited and led a team of volunteers to develop regional product management community and produce an annual event -- now virtual. The goal of ProductCampSD is to contribute to success and growth of San Diego companies of all sizes by improving our ability to build market leading products by bringing product leaders together to share best practices and form supportive connections.A group of brilliant and dedicated volunteer organizers are laying the foundation of a community of product leaders in San Diego. Join us! Email volunteer@ProductCampSD.org.

**Limelight Health was acquired by FINEOS in August, 2020.**Successfully led Limelight Health through Agile transformation to become a product-led, market-driven enterprise software company resulting in growth-focused acquisition at 90% of target valuation. • Focused market and product strategy on beachhead target market• Shifted product development delivery from custom solutions to off-the-shelf configurable enterprise system• Reorganized product and engineering to align around customer personas in empowered cross-functional product teams• Coached the teams to adopt and apply software industry best practices for innovation including Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum• Established an executive Product Council to align product and market strategy• Collaborated with Engineering to shorten cycle times for product releases to two weeks• Created a new Product Operations team to remove barriers to innovation and delivery• Hired and led a fully remote team (even before COVID quarantine) of high performers in product management, product operations, product marketing, UX/UI, and technical publicationsSelected as the Best Tech Manager in the SF Bay Area for 2020 by Tech in Motion Events.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

I created and launched a new course for experienced Product Managers to get to the next level of their careers and craft.

Assisted small and large companies using the frameworks, tools, and best practices of product management to get quickly to product-market fit.

San Jose, California, Us

• Led strategic pivot in freight and passenger transportation, smart cities, and first responder solutions with industrial IoT connectivity platform-as-a-service (PaaS), software, and devices. • Launched 3 products in new markets and 4 new products in mature market. Supported beachhead client and key strategic partnership; generated inbound leads for 150% growth in segment. • Provided requirements to Agile software development sprints and coordinated releases with software architect and technical product manager.• Created market strategy pitch slides for Series E funding round.• Hired and managed a team of 4 product directors and marketing specialists in Asia & the US, plus marketing services firm and consulting vendors.• Product earned recognition included: → 2016 IoT Evolution Connected Transport Award, → SmartTransit’s 2016 Project of the Year Innovation Award, and → 2016 Internet Telephony SDN Product of the Year Award. → 1st-time ranking #179 Inc. 500 List, #13 Silicon Valley Business Journal's Fast Private. → 1st-time analyst coverage, including Breakout Vendor listing by Forrester Research.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

• Designed and launched new department to deliver customer insights and requirements for Lean product development, focused on ScienceDirect – our flagship SaaS product with 10+ million unique monthly visitors and $2bn annual revenue. • Developed strategy and product requirements for seven vertically focused MVP innovation prototypes for launch of new product suite following acquisition of Mendeley. Completed ethnographic and focus group research, conjoint pricing analysis, and user experience testing.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Head of global product for ScienceDirect science & technology products in academic & government markets. • Launched Article of the Future user experience redesign, successfully increasing user engagement.• Drove increase in y-o-y usage and gateway conversions for science & technology SaaS product and reversed downward Net Promoter Score (NPS) trend.• Supported key account renewals during two corporate boycotts. • Reëngineered product management, engineering, and communication process for release and downtime.• Hired and managed a team of 4 product specialists in Europe and the US.

Dublin, Ie

• Delivered product management services for multinational technology clients launching Enterprise SaaS products and expanding internationally.• Projects included telecommunications product introduction in Middle East, revised pricing strategy in India, new office in Malaysia, and cybersecurity product definition for U.S. DoD.

Reston, Va, Us

• Cybersecurity projects for U.S. Government client, including requirements definition and analysis, business intelligence, risk identification, plus assessment of market, talent, and competitors.

Woburn, Ma, Us

• Responsible for rejuvenating the existing product line and sharply growing revenue and profitability. • Introduced customer-focused and market-driven product management and software development using Pragmatic principles. • Gathered and documented requirements for content management and workflow enterprise software.

Woburn, Ma, Us

• Number one worldwide sales annually, 2004. Company record-setting quarter, Q4 2004. • Built and managed outside sales, inside sales, and technical sales team for western region.

Woburn, Ma, Us

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• Managed team of 11 engineers in sales engineering, technical training, implementation consulting, and technical support for North American clients implementing content management & workflow.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Managed release and developed UX requirements and wireframes for launch of new PegaREACH workflow automation product. • Programmed product demonstrations and provided content and technical expertise to consulting and marketing teams.