Michael Robson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Key Achievements - Launched new ad types within Jobs and Automotive verticals, improving and adding significant value to the seller offering, and resulting in substantial incremental revenue for Gumtree. - Identified gaps in our iOS and Android app offerings, developed a feature roadmap for delivery.- Introduced new finance pricing ad product for Gumtree dealers, allowing dealers to display a weekly finance price in search results and within their car listings.- Integrated display advertising partnerships across the Automotive vertical to promote 3rd party finance and insurance offerings. - Established a verticals product vision and strategy and achieved alignment with stakeholders.- Worked with tech lead to set up kanban-based Agile product development process. - Led a cross-functional team including; analytics, UX, design, developers and QA. - Achieved a high personal NPS (Net Promoter Score) rating from colleagues.

Sydney, Australia

Reporting to the CEO, I led The Australian’s digital product team, focussed on rolling out new features and enhancements which improve the customer experience on The Australian’s website, mobile site and iOS and Android applications. - Managed a team of cross-functional digital experts - Defined and launched The Australian’s paid subscription product - Strategic development of web, mobile and device applications

Sydney, Australia

- Ongoing development and management of the product roadmap - Established Agile project methodology within product team - Set-up and championed the use of collaborative tools Jira and Wiki - Facilitated numerous vision and requirement sessions with wide variety of stakeholders

Sydney, Australia

I worked as the lead producer to deliver news.com.au’s program of work. - Established Agile project methodology - Oversaw numerous homepage re-launches - Led a team of producers within an Agile environment - Production management of news.com.au product and sales projects - Liaised with wide range of developers and stakeholders to deliver projects on time and within budget

Sydney, Australia

Producer for Yahoo!7's front page and MyYahoo, working with editorial, product, design, UX and sales stakeholders to produce product updates to Yahoo!7's homepage and MyYahoo! products.- Managed the inclusion of Pulse on Yahoo’s homepage- Launched a Y!7 Answers feature in the homepage Personal Assistant module.- Initiated a project to drive visitation from Yahoo!7 mail back to the Front Page, increasing page views and in-turn ad inventory.- Working with the international front doors team on a new version of MyYahoo!

Sydney, Australia

I was responsible for editing and promoting news content for Yahoo!'s Australian audience, across the news vertical and Yahoo!'s homepage. This involved sourcing stories, re-working wire content, writing captions and headlines, producing videos and creating photo galleries. - Achieved record traffic for Yahoo!7 front page features in March 2007.- Provided editorial updates and direction on the Yahoo!7 Front Page and Yahoo!7 News- Worked with engineers to develop onsite features- Developed a live-streaming news video service working with the Yahoo!7 product team

London, United Kingdom

I was a member of the MediaGuardian production team, uploading content, writing stories, researching material, and liaising with technology to enhance functionality in our CMS.- Sourced and wrote the second-most visited story on the guardian in 2005- Set up a very successful live blog with Thom Sherman - Producer of TV series Lost

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Bachelor, Media