John Koht Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Manage a group of fantastic product managers across various client products. Currently working on fintech lending, auto insurance, and retirement services products.

Oak Brook, Il, Us

Millennium Trust is a provider of innovative financial products like automatic retirement rollovers. • Created and led the product strategy for the flagship automatic rollover product to improve operational efficiency and margins.• Prioritized product roadmap with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver $6M in funded accounts within eight months.• Designed and led the product strategy and roadmap, aligning with the product vision, business objectives, and cross-functional teams.• Led the customer research process to establish user trust, conduct interviews, and incorporate feedback into the product.• Worked with sales to demo to prospects, onboard new customers, and bring product teams closer to the customers.• Manage and coach two product managers.

I founded a digital product agency that helped organizations innovate and grow through digital products. Kohactive was acquired by LaunchPad Lab in 2020.• Led the implementation of a new billing system for an insurance company that expanded payment plans and reduced delinquent churn that led to an increase in annual revenue.• Led the design and development of a new conversion funnel that increased conversion rates by 30%.• Led the implementation of a new checkout system that increased online sales by over 200%.• Coached and mentored product managers• Led agile product teams from idea to launch• Consulted clients on product vision and strategy

Tiny House Listings is the largest marketplace for tiny homes.• Led the strategy, design, and implementation of TinyHouseListings.com and increased the DAU by 200% within the first year of launch.• Led the research, strategy, and design of a new Seller onboarding process that fully automated the process and eliminated manual intervention.• Implemented a pay-per-lead and pay-per-click system that doubled annual revenue.• Led the discovery and launch of a lending integration to offer financing options for tiny home buyers.

Mahwah, New Jersey, Us

Select Home Warranty is a leading provider of home warranty insurance and protection.• Identified an opportunity to automate contractor dispatching and led the implementation of the system, which fully automated the process and improved operational margins and efficiency.• Led the implementation of a new billing system that expanded payment plans and reduced delinquent churn.• Led the design and development of a new checkout flow that increased conversion rates by 30%.• Defined product strategy and led product initiatives and plans with cross-functional teams.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

NextLot is a leading online auction SaaS platform. • Scaled the product from $2B in total auction sales to over $2B in yearly sales through improved product practices, better customer discovery, and partnering with sales and marketing.• Launched a robust API of our auction platform that helped retain large customers and improve recurring from enterprise auctioneers.• Led a cross-functional team to re-platform the new core auction bidding UI

Memories made easy. No signups, no logins, no fuss, just memms. Memms is a photo-sharing app born in a Kohactive hackathon.With Memms, you can create an event for your wedding, birthday, or whatever and then share the unique phone number with anybody. Guests can text message photos and videos to the event phone number and they would automatically pull into an event feed. Event organizers can download all other media after the event.

Dewey was a powerful bookmarking tool for individuals and organizations. We built the product as an internal tool at Kohactive and later released it as a public product. Dewey allowed users to create collections of bookmarks and share them with friends and colleagues.

B.A., Philosophy

Interactive Arts And Media

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