Melissa Loder Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Kiva is an international fintech nonprofit with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive. As a growth PM, I owned both growing new users and overall revenue for the business by identifying the most impactful opportunities and leveraging growth strategies and A/B testing to attain measurable results, including increasing.

New York, NY, US

I owned the newsletter and web products at theSkimm, with a mission to help millennial women live smarter lives. I set the productvision and evangelized it across the company, authored requirements, communicated with stakeholders to identifyproblem areas / opportunities, and employed a collaborative product development process to reach our goals. I'm most.

New York, NY, US

I owned the reader-facing newsletter experience at the Times, managing a portfolio of over 60 newsletters and their discovery and sign up experience, with the goal of growing the audience and increasing user engagement. In this role, I set the newsletter vision, defined KPIs, created OKRs, defined the roadmap, authored product briefs, and analyzed data..

New York, NY, US

Managed the day-to-day of our www.nytimes.com relaunch, from prioritizing work, writing user stories, working directly with the newsroom, design and engineering, and assessing data to identify gaps and come up with solutions.

New York, US

• Manage the NOOK Press platform, a self-publishing portal whose titles account for 20% of overall NOOK Books sold (www.nookpress.com)
• Partnered with the design, marketing, business, and customer support teams to gather and define requirements for the NOOK Press print service: a new creation platform allowing users to print books from manuscript.
• Collaborated with Pivotal Labs’ product, design and engineering teams during a six-month consulting period, learning and implementing agile best practices through user research/testing, cross-functional pairing, and.
• Led international expansion to 7 countries and 6 languages in February 2014 by gathering requirements from Finance, Marketing, and Design teams and working closely with engineering to implement, test, and launch
• Drove the launch of a new, high-profile platform in April 2013 and re-brand by gathering and writing requirements, facilitating user testing, overseeing development, and interfacing with user experience, marketing, and.
• Collaborated and worked closely with the General Manager to operate and grow a multi-million dollar self–publishing business with a vast user base of authors and publishers, expanding customer base by over 400% over a.

• Managed a client list of 10+ publishers and retailers, including the high profile accounts
• Responsibilities included: overseeing all aspects of content conversion; running weekly client calls; translating client needs and expectations into specifications and processes for Production; managing a variety of.
• Collaborated with the Sales, Engineering, and Production departments to produce complex content, including education titles, enhanced eBooks and fixed format ePubs
• Led a project involving the scanning, conversion, rework, and delivery of ~3,000 hardcopy titles across three separate backends with an aggressive delivery schedule

• Manage the book content ingestion process, including authoring requirements documents, forming workflows, and coordinating with developers to create a functioning, efficient, and scalable ingestion system
• Engage daily with publishing partners to establish and grow relationships focused upon acquisition of digital content
• Oversee third-party conversion team and implement file testing processes, delivery plans/procedures, reporting structures, and conversion troubleshooting and solutions
• Supervise eBook design and presentation on the Skiff platform with book designer and software development team
• Additional responsibilities include: developing publisher ingestion guidelines; creating requirements for metadata fields, sources, and uses throughout the platform; and researching trends and technologies in the.

New York, New York, US

• Managed S&S’s digital book program, entailing title selection, rights clearances, production, and distribution
• Worked cross-functionally with the Legal, Editorial, and IT departments to obtain rights, track files, and deliver 50+ eBook titles to retailers per month
• Responsible for eBook marketing and promotions, including newsletters, site features, banners, and special pricing
• Coordinated file transfers of electronic content to conversion vendor, including source file and metadata delivery
• Collaborated with all S&S departments to ensure timely delivery of materials to SimonSays.com and online retailers
• Managed delivery of files to book search programs

Brooklyn, NY, US

• Managed and developed special projects from planning to post-production
• Oversaw eBook conversion process, including file conversion, quality control, file delivery, metadata tracking, and retailer deliveries
• Managed conversion of 11,000+ titles and metadata from various publishers for new eBook device
• Consulted in software and tool development, metadata sourcing strategies, and file conversion of new eBook programs
• Knowledgeable in various electronic book formats, including Adobe Reader, Microsoft Reader, Palm, MobiPocket, Sony Reader, and Open eBook format (OeB)
• Met with potential clients to present and discuss digital publishing offerings to build business relationships

Bachelor'S, English

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