I've worked in a variety of technical product roles throughout different areas of the music industry. I'm here to offer my experience as a product leader and music industry creative.

After working as a full time Product Lead at DICE, I transitioned to part-time as a qualitative researcher whilst working on my music commitments outside the company.My work included:• Regularly interviewing and building relationships with music industry professionals, predominately venue owners and promoters• Gathering insights on specific ways of working within the industry for a wide range of partners, from seated arts venues to large scale clubs and festivals • Providing detailed reports with recommendations and guidance for Product Managers & Designers* Contributing industry insights to product strategy and feature scoping sessions

Upon joining DICE I lead the development of their b2b partner tools used by promoters and venues around the world. Responsibilities included:* Stakeholder management, liaising with C-Suite regularly to discuss high level business strategies* Owning and communicating a clear product strategy to the company* Orchestrating a product launch involving various different departments* Owning the product roadmap for the backend product tools.* Managing a team of engineers and designers

Boiler Room is one of the leading underground music publishers worldwide. With an average reach of 10 million users per month, Boiler Room began transitioning towards being a digital product-led company in early 2017. For the majority of this time I have been the sole Product Manager, and have been running a team that has grown from 5 to 14 whilst also coaching other departments to transition towards a product focussed working process.Responsibilities:* Product Owner for multiple digital products: Website, Mobile Apps (iOS & Android) & Apple TV* Defining & maintaining the product roadmap & managing a backlog across 4 work streams:User Experience, Engineering / Architecture, Feature Development, Content Strategy* Agile Coaching & synchronizing workflows across the organisation (Marketing, Commercial, Content, Production, Post Production) to increase efficiency between disparate teams and improve quality of the platform* Managing / consulting on multiple work streams outside of the Product team, including brand partnerships, film releases and commercial campaigns* Communicating regularly with stakeholders to re-assess the org wide vision, priorities and the general transition towards a digital product-led company* Scrum Master for a product team of 14, consisting of multiple designers, developers and content editors* Integrating & synchronizing multiple SaaS management tools in order to maintain a cross-team backlog (Clubhouse, Wrike, Trello, Airtable etc.)* Organising user surveys & collating / categorising user feedback to assist backlog prioritisation * Planning / managing product releases* Assisting on go-to-market strategies

Fresh8 is an award winning automated, personalised advertising platform built specifically for the sports betting industry. Using machine learning to classify sports content, as well as behavioural data from analytics, the platform determines the best advert to display in milliseconds. Fresh8 serves approximately 150 million adverts a day for several of the biggest global bookmakers, including SkyBet, BetVictor, and Coral. Responsibilities:* Defining and managing the feature roadmap* Benchmarking feature sets against competitors / industry standards* Writing business requirements, user stories & acceptance criteria* Designing wireframes / workflow diagrams* Splitting scopes into staggered releases in order to meet business requirements and allow for incremental feature improvements* Working with a QA engineer to establish test plans* Periodic status updates to stakeholders* Writing release plans alongside the Head of Engineering, Commercial Director and Project Manager* Setting feedback sessions with key clients as part of a release plan* Managing client expectations during the releases process* Maintaining a backlog in JIRA

Over Synth's 5 year lifespan it became one of the forefront bespoke creative agencies in Bristol, working with a huge variety of brands. Synth’s client base comprised mainly of arts organisations & tech startups. The agency grew organically with no investment before eventually getting acquired by one of its clients, Connected Ventures (Fresh8 Gaming).Responsibilities:* Working closely with clients to realise their vision from both a design & development perspective* Writing creative and technical briefs* Costing up and quoting commercial projects and negotiating contracts with prospective clients* Scoping out website/app user journeys and wireframing commercial projects* Conceiving and overseeing technical projects from conception, through testing and release* Managing a team of 8 designers / developers* Seeking out and winning new client work* Day-to-day office management, finance, legal etc.