Michael Shane Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Postlight was acquired by NTT DATA in summer 2022.As a member of Postlight's senior leadership team, I lead a team of strategists that works across the firm’s portfolio, providing strategic oversight, storytelling, and consultation to ensure that clients and their Postlight teams find shared success. We drive revenue, quality of delivery, and the storytelling that ties all of it together out in the world.As practitioners with deep, real world experience creating product strategy, advising and negotiating with clients, and shipping software in a variety of industries, we are the first team at Postlight to build relationships with clients, and we collaborate with our project teams and clients throughout our engagements to drive strategy with expert guidance and support.The Digital Strategy team sits at the center of Postlight's business — guiding the evolution of the firm's capabilities through our interactions with partners out in the world.

New York, New York, United States

My work at Code and Theory required me to combine strategy, product management and design, and technical and business literacy. I led projects for some of our key clients from a diverse set of industries, from finance to retail, entertainment, news/publishing, D2C, healthcare, and more. I created our strategic approach, defined product requirements, owned client relationships, and orchestrated collaboration among designers, user researchers, data analysts, and developers as we work together to design, develop, launch, and measure the success of products for clients. From apps, websites, platforms, and ecosystems to governance and organizational change, I ensured that our approach was rooted in rigorous strategy and realized with world-class execution. I also enjoyed managing a small team of strategists and mentoring junior employees throughout the agency.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

I worked with other leaders and executives across Bloomberg to develop and execute the product, editorial, and monetization strategies that drove the relaunch of Bloomberg’s digital media business across all verticals of bloomberg.com, mobile apps, and OTT products. I conceived and led the creation of Bloomberg’s podcast business, guiding both monetization and editorial to new audiences, profitability, and over $1MM of revenue in its first year. I often collaborated with product and technical teams from the Bloomberg Terminal, advocating for our needs and solving for complex dependencies and governance rules. I also experimented with emerging technologies and launched new consumer and advertising products that persist at Bloomberg today. As a Managing Editor, I oversaw a multidisciplinary team of 30 journalists with seven direct reports.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

My tenure at Vox Media was a cross-functional immersion in the birth of a new business. I joined the company at its inception and helped build the culture and organization that took us to a nearly $1B valuation at the time of my departure. As The Verge representative to Vox Media’s corporate sales, product, legal, and finance teams, I helped ensure that The Verge was a productive vertical within our nascent business. I immersed myself in the argot of every discipline, from design, production, and development to marketing, journalism, and monetization. I successfully coordinated major projects across teams, from seven figure advertising executions to editorial features months in the making.

Greater New York City Area

I photographed nearly 100 stories stories for The Verge, from breaking news, to editorial features about cosplayers, to high profile product reviews with mercilessly tight deadlines, to portraits of powerful CEOs and celebrities. I’ve traveled from New York to Seattle for three minutes with Jeff Bezos, and explored the dilapidated side of Las Vegas way too late at night. My photography work at The Verge has always involved intense collaboration with our reporters and our product, design, and video teams. I’ve made a name for myself by doing more with less, faster. Digital Photo Pro Magazine interviewed me about my approach in a profile published in April (http://www.digitalphotopro.com/profiles/michael-b-shane-on-the-verge.html), and my coverage of the Space Shuttle Enterprise was also featured on the cover of Popular Photography.

Greater New York City Area

I joined The Verge just after launch as the assistant to the Editor-in-chief, a multi-disciplinary role that required stamina, ingenuity, and focus. As the representative of the leader of The Verge editorial team, I regularly communicated with high level professionals within and outside of Vox Media. I provided administrative support – including scheduling, correspondence, and travel arrangements – for the Editor-in-Chief. As The Verge grew, I took on more responsibilities wherever I saw the need, resulting in my promotion to Director of Operations, a position that reflects an ongoing evolution and not just a change of title.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Shortly after graduation from The Cleveland Institute of Music, I joined one of the world’s top orchestras for subscription concerts in the United States and on two European tours with renowned conductors. I learned to participate in the unique, high pressure discourse that takes place in a world-class orchestra and to take calculated risks. I successfully (and quickly) transitioned from student to colleague.

Master'S Degree, Music Performance, Clarinet

Bachelor'S Degree, Music Performance, Clarinet