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Austin, Tx, Us

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Empowering the world's most-loved brands to deliver their ideal post-purchase experiences.

Temporarily focusing my passion for growth toward exploration and personal development. Traveling, learning new things, meeting interesting people.

Austin, Texas, Us

Led global Jungle Scout product teams including Product Management, User Experience, Engineering, Data Science and Customer Success.Drove 10x increase in enterprise value and grew team to 375 employees based in dozens of countries.Jungle Scout is an eCommerce Intelligence company serving entrepreneurs to the world’s largest global brands, retailers, investment firms and agencies.

Austin, Texas, Us

Led product organization and other functions for publicly-traded software-as-a-service and data intelligence company (annual revenue >$200M).Reporting to CEO and as named executive officer, scope included product management, user experience, design, program management, corporate and business development.Bazaarvoice collects, distributes and publishes user-generated-content from 186 countries in 37 languages to over 1 billion people every month. Client base includes who’s-who of global brand and retailersSold Bazaarvoice to Marlin Equity Partners in a public-to-private transaction for $521M.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led product and design for newly-formed Seller Insights team. Charter to use big data, science and cutting-edge design to drive sales growth and improve the seller experience on eBay.Launched “Smart Guidance” service to help sellers optimize their listings. Drove $150M sales growth within 3 months by introducing algorithmically generated pricing and title recommendations into selling flows. Also single-largest causal factor of improved seller satisfaction scores in 2014.Built “eBay Insights” portal to help retail sellers understand and grow their business through actionable recommendations and insights.Created vision, strategy and implementation plan for eBay’s new “Seller Hub”, a unified dashboard that makes it easy to manage all aspects of an eBay business.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led Product, Marketing and Business Development at early-stage consumer startup backed by investors in Google, eBay and Amazon. Acquired by eBay in Sep, 2013.One of first ten employees; drove web/mobile/tablet product definition from concept through all subsequent releases. Decide has delivered eleven million “When To Buy” recommendations, saving consumers over $250M.Evolved Decide into a membership-based business model with thousands of paying members.Defined mobile strategy and execution; launched iOS and Android Apps. App hailed as “A New Secret Weapon for Electronics Shoppers” by the New York Times and consistently ranked as a top shopping and lifestyle app.Managed marketing strategy and execution, including PR, direct, social, search, display and email.Established analytical marketing culture and ROI-driven approach to marketing investments. Recruited new VP Marketing in April, 2012.Created all product marketing material, including press releases and pitch presentations. Managed PR agencies and acted as company spokesperson with media. In first year, Decide built a loyal consumer fan base and received accolades from consumer, technology and startup media.Created initial business model and active participant in pitch meetings for $6 million Series B funding round and $8-10 million Series C round.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Manage a team of 27 ecommerce professionals. Responsibility for acquisition marketing, consumer engagement and relationship marketing, user experience, category management, merchandising, content sourcing and publishing, trade marketing, business model, partnership development, business intelligence and analytics.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Managed 12-person team of category managers and content publishers responsible for consumer engagement. Doubled site content, established reporting standards and contributed to a 200% increase in consumer satisfaction.• Owned MSN Shopping sales & monetization strategy, balancing revenue, consumer satisfaction and advertiser ROI.• Drove feature and development process to prioritize engineering efforts for the Shopping business team. Partnered with Program Management, Development and Test teams to identify, scope and launch features and site fixes.• Developed and evaluated new monetization concepts and models.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Business, Product and Relationship Manager for Amazon's third-party ecommerce platform.• Launched new product categories and drove growth in existing categories. (Electronics, Computing, Video Games, Office Supplies, Arts & Crafts, Warranties)• Business development: Negotiated and managed channel marketing contracts with key retail partners.• Drove development of new site features to increase sales and improve buying and selling experience, driving increased revenue and consumer satisfaction. Partnered with technical teams to define business specifications and to create, launch and refine new functionality.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

• Full product lifecycle experience creating and launching a children’s bedding and home décor concept for Toys R Us stores: market opportunity analysis, consumer insights, positioning, category mix, branding/licensing opportunities, merchandising strategy, pricing strategy and inventory management. Presented strategy to and granted approval from CEO and executive committee for greenlight.• Developed implementation strategy, incorporating marketing plan, process flow design, in-store training and organizational requirements for maximum benefit without disruption of existing business.• Researched and evaluated business model for buying, selling and trading used video game software and hardware.• Managed merchandising for the $100M+ categories of video game peripherals and PC software.

Evanston, Illinois, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba)

Mba, Marketing, Strategy, Finance

German History And Language