Michael Schlein Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Interim CEO

• Defined a mission-driven, customer-centric product vision and roadmap that streamlines fragmented workflows in film and TV production, driving >20% increased operational efficiency• Led the development of a GenAI-augmented project collaboration suite, enhancing team communication and task management.• Built and led an empowered, high-performing product and engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership and innovation that delivered key features ahead of schedule• Secured funding from angel investments, government R&D grants, and credits from tech giants, reducing infrastructure costs by 80%.

New York, Ny, Us

• Led the integration of product teams, cultures, and processes from the two largest U.S. news publishers, driving alignment and increasing release velocity by 20% through an improved product management strategy• Spearheaded the selection and migration to a unified CMS, consolidating 375+ news products and serving 150M+ unique users per month• Developed persona-based, adaptive templates, enhancing user experiences, improving funnel conversion, and driving new digital subscriptions across a 500-brand network• Conceived and led the proposal for GeoReporter, a 0-1 freelance management solution awarded a Google News Initiative grant, adopted by 300 newsrooms, and delivering significant operational savings within two quarters• Drove long-term product strategy, aligning with market trends to position the company for future growth in digital subscription models

• Scaled Transparensee’s SaaS real estate listing service, creating and executing a product roadmap that integrated AI-driven features from Pointslocal's tech stack• Improved Pointslocal's auto-tagging, events CMS, and revenue-generating products, optimizing management of pirate funnel goals and driving operational efficiency

New York, Ny, Us

•Bootstrapped and scaled an AI-powered SaaS platform, licensed by hundreds of publishers across North America and the UK•Developed a proprietary geospatial NLP tagging system, combining context clues, editorial inputs, and naïve-Bayesian algorithms to deliver industry-leading geospatial, topic, and entity tagging•Led the business to profitability for four years, leveraging a combination of SaaS, affiliate, and e-commerce revenue streams•Negotiated strategic partnerships and pilot projects with MapQuest, Yahoo, and AOL•Successfully led the business to exit, overseeing the sale to Transparensee Systems, Inc.

New York, Ny, Us

• Progressed through multiple product leadership roles, leading a diverse team of 40 across product, engineering, ad ops, and design• Led CMS selection and site redesign for New York Times properties, using user testing and A/B testing for data-driven improvements• Developed successful email products, including "Dealbook," which expanded into blogs, TV shows, and podcasts, setting industry benchmarks• Created The New York Times' first "Member Center", boosting registration and digital subscriptions• Created the first iteration of NYTimes.com’s "A Nation Challenged" during 9/11, a product that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service