Maximo Koa-Muño Email & Phone Number

Auckland, NZ

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

• Lead the international product management team; scope and deliver customer-obsessed experiences for global Audible customers
• Lead the international product strategy for Audible, which consists of finding the right blend of technologies to deliver unequaled customer value across territories
• Scoped and launched a groundbreaking mobile application in India (Audible Suno)
• Scoped and launched the first Audible/Amazon Fuse deal in the UK with O2 (UK’s #2 mobile operator)
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• Scoped and launched Audible Spain Show less

• Led the product management team for Connected Home & Health
• Owned the product lifecycle, which included defining the product roadmap, working closely with the engineering team on feature requirements, representing the voice of the customer, and leading implementation
• Evaluated technologies and identified opportunities to innovate and improve features and capabilities

• Led cross-functional teams of 13 people across 5+ offices in the U.S. and external partners to deliver an innovative user-centric Connected Home Experience
• Drove concept creation, testing and refinement to deliver on long-term, cutting-edge vision for Verizon to succeed in the Connected Home space
• Leveraged voice of consumer research and innovation frameworks to craft compelling insights and identify areas of opportunity in the IoT Consumer space
• Collaborated with the Product… Show more
• Collaborated with the Product Technology, Strategy and Business Development teams to build, partner, or acquire the necessary solutions to complete successful strategies Show less

• Expert on the market, competitive landscape, and product features for Quirky’s Connected Appliances; successfully developed a whole new brand of 3 new products: "Poppy: a new brand of smart appliances that think for.
• Developed a roadmap around customers’ pain points, created compelling stories around products and build business cases for development
• Drove feature trade-offs to keep a product within cost targets and on schedule – while fighting for… Show more
• Drove feature trade-offs to keep a product within cost targets and on schedule – while fighting for a user experience that delights
• Interacted with large user communities and integrated immediate feedback to enable incremental UX design along a project life
• Worked closely with sales to help them understand the product and features and how to pitch the product to prospect buyers from the largest worldwide retailers

• Managed Quirky’s Home & Kitchen products & production; successfully shipped 25+ products over a period of 18 months
• Led cross-functional teams of 20+ people across offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia: engineering, quality assurance, industrial design, creative operations, sourcing, logistics, retail operations, finance, etc.

• Conducted an Exploitation Plan (Market Observatory & Business Scenario) to create a platform and personalized interfaces for people with disabilities who require Assistive Technology for interacting with Information.
• Analyzed the Search Fund market, authored the first European Search Fund Observation Report
• Contributed to two books and three MBA case studies written on Innovation… Show more
• Contributed to two books and three MBA case studies written on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Show less

• Implemented the worldwide strategic, financial and technical positioning of seven new excavators (half of the product range)
• Led design and technical development of these excavators, of which one won the internationally-renowned Red Dot Award for Product Design 2015
• Conducted market analysis, competitive and technical intelligence, innovation research
• Organized and executed promotional events (17 Road shows, 5 Trade fairs, etc.)
• Organized and presented training sessions… Show more
• Organized and presented training sessions for sales personnel in English, French and German Show less