Richard Kirk Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Vauxhall, London, Gb

Leading on creation of FAST metadata spec and guidance for the Media & Entertainment industry

Consultant subject matter expert on Content Discovery, helping broadcasters, streamers and MVPDs improve audience engagement and retention.

London, Gb

Setup product team and process to shift Flixmedia to be a product and data led company. Launched 8 new products and refreshed the platform, growing Flixmedia's annual revenue significantly.🏅Key accomplishments: ▪️ Achieved a 225% revenue increase and 800% margin growth for Flix AR, the flagship syndication product. ▪️ Launched a Comparison Tables product, achieving a 13.5% Add-To-Cart uplift and a 27% Average Order Value increase for brands. ▪️ Experiential e-Commerce product increasing product page dwell time by over 40 seconds on average. Increased Add-to-cart rate by 7.62% for Google pixel phones. ▪️ Developed Amazon A+ automation product, saving over 700 hours of manual effort across 234 ASINs for one brand alone. ▪️ Piloted Machine-learning powered competitive benchmarking data product for brands to compare performance on ecommerce sites. ▪️ Baselined A/B testing metrics and built a new A/B testing platform to optimise Flixmedia’s experimentation process. ▪️ Built a Data API using Google Analytics Hub, resulting in the most requested customer enhancement being delivered, reducing customer churn threats and building a significant revenue pipeline.🛠️ Main Responsibilities:- Product strategy, product discovery, product roadmapping, prioritisation and requirements.- Leading sprint planning and ceremonies with multiple engineering squads.- Recruitment and coaching of product managers, products owners and product designers.- Management of Shopper Insights (Data) team.- Management of Marketing function.- Board member.

San Jose, California, Us

Led international product management on innovative new AI powered products to enable universal search and discovery across TV, VOD, Catch-up, Sport, Digital First, Music, Books and Games.🏅Key accomplishments: ▫️ Managed Content Discovery portfolio for EMEA & APAC regions, total revenue > $40m ARR ▫️ Reduced re-work and improved delivery predictability of data sourcing for adding additional language support for TiVo’s voice product by collaborating closely with lead Data Scientist. ▫️ Designed, built and launched TiVo’s “Deep Discovery” data product, combining editorial and AI generated tags for content discovery. Deployed on major European MVPDs and TiVo’s TV OS. Proven to increase Effective Catalog Size and reduce subscriber churn. ▫️ Improved matching efficiency of TV, VOD and FAST content through AI reinforcement learning. Simple UI was developed to confirm/correct matches.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Grew Content Discovery product portfolio through partnerships and acquisitions to address international markets. Managed product team of five.🏅Key accomplishments: ⭐️ Launched reseller data partnership with IMDb to include IMDb star ratings in data product. Led commercial, legal and GTM launch. Ericsson and IMDb co-launched at NAB exhibition. Created massive and hard to challenge competitive differentiator. Generated an immediate and significant revenue increase. 🌍 Led international expansion. Expanded Red Bee's Content Discovery data coverage into tens of new territories including the US. ✅ Led and launched Data API. Defined MVP, requirements, built and launched developer portal. Created performance SLA and pricing rate card. Adopted by major platforms including Liberty Global. ✅ Built metadata, deep links and 1200 channels for Samsung's On TV service across 13 countries. product team.

London, London, Gb

Transformed Red Bee Media's Content Discovery & metadata into a coherent product portfolio and led growth through the emergence of streaming services.🏅Key accomplishments: ▫️ Part of product team that launched Red Bee Media's RedDiscover on-line video player and companion app. ▫️ Put a successful proposal to the Board to acquire a partner company, TV Genius, and working on the due diligence and integration process. ▫️ Developed and launched the metadata content for the BBC’s iPlayer service. ▫️ Launched British Eurosport’s Real-Time Triggering service on the Sky TV Platform. ▫️ Worked closely with Liberty Global on the European launch of their Horizon TV/VOD platform.

London, Gb

Built and led the team of 25 to build new Metadata Management system for TV listings metadata ingest, enhancement and distribution. Completed the build and complex systems migration project successfully.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Consulting engagements with various companies most notably Specsavers to build and launch their first contact lenses ecommerce site.

Delivered challenging and complex projects as software consultant, working with clients such as Kvaerner Construction and Akzo Nobel.

Enhanced and maintained the PECAS print management system.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Built systems for customer data management and matching to support financial customers' marketing campaigns. Developed the Total Oil Points Scheme (TOPS) loyalty card scheme for Total Oil.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Studied Computer Science on an IBM sponsored student course degree course.

Tv Masters, Tv Advertising

Product Executive Course, Product Management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science