Rob Christensen Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Jose, Ca, Us

I lead product management for Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). My team covers Lightroom Classic, Lightroom Desktop, Lightroom Web, Lightroom mobile apps (iOS, iPadOS, and Android), ACR, Lightroom for Apple TV, Vision Pro and supporting cloud services.

Geyserville, California, Us

Help with family business.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led a team of PMs focused on a mission to help the world's largest, global companies with digital transformation using messaging channels. I owned the roadmap for rich messaging on digital channels including first-party chat (web and mobile SDKs on Android and iOS), third-party messaging (Facebook Messenger, etc.), and e-mail. Impact: Products are used by thousands of Salesforce customers powering 100+ million customer interactions per month. Partnering with product leaders around the company to extend our products to support new use cases including AI and industry vertical teams (healthcare, financial services, etc.).

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Led a team of product managers focused on software that powers the HERO5 Black and Session. I owned the roadmap for: 1) Capture, the mobile app that allows customers to control their GoPros (over 10 million installs) 2) telemetry overlays 3) media offloading including automatic camera to cloud offload 4) AI-based automatic storytelling and 5) sharing to social networks. We partnered with design, engineering, and customers to envision new customer experiences and prioritized these into our long-term roadmap. The HERO5 is the world's bestselling action camera loved by millions of customers around the world. I had the pleasure of working with Nick Woodman, the founder of GoPro.

Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Kr

I worked as part of a multidisciplinary team (industrial designers, AI, mechanical engineers, visual designers, robotics experts, electrical engineers, etc.) to accelerate the creation of new products and ecosystems with a focus Internet of Things (IoT) and digital health. Presented product prototypes to Samsung CEOs and also showcases at events like Mobile World Congress and the Samsung Developer Conference.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Led the device software product management team for Amazon's Kindle e-reader products including the awarding-winning Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Voyage. In addition, my product team supported international expansion, developed product roadmaps, and also championed new concepts for future products. In 2014, we helped launched the new Kindle Voyage and the all-new $79 Kindle with touch.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Key personal and team accomplishments: 2013-2014 • Launched the 2nd generation Kindle Paperwhite, which includes Goodreads integration, Kindle FreeTime, Kindle Page Flip, Vocabulary Builder and more; device was rated 9/10 by The Verge and 4.4 out of 5 stars by Amazon customers. Press releases: http://bit.ly/1irkieZ and http://bit.ly/17C0X3S • Expanded Kindle's international presence with launches in China and India • Drove cross-functional software roadmap meetings with partner teams and senior executives • Managed a PM team responsible for expanding international support and driving new software experiences 2012• Served as lead software PM for the 1st generation Kindle Paperwhite (rated 9/10 by Wired and The Verge). Press release: http://bit.ly/1dWq6K4• Partnered with UX and engineering to create requirements for new features including a major "touch-first" UI redesign, time left in book estimator, unlock experience, light control, overall device performance and more • Presented feature concepts and product roadmaps to senior executives including Amazon CEO • Worked cross-functionally with other product managers, program managers, engineering managers, UX teams and usability researchers

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Drove roadmaps and new product releases for Adobe AIR and Flash Player • Managed a team of product managers responsible for core runtime capabilities including graphics, runtime updates and mobile technologies • Partnered closely with peers in engineering, marketing, program management and customers to deliver software on over one billion connected devices• Identified trends in the marketplace and competitive threats to create a multi-year strategy and roadmap* Adobe AIR runtime installed on over 100,000,000 Android devices

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for driving the release roadmap for Adobe Flash runtime technologies (Flash Player and Adobe AIR). Working closely with Flash runtime product management and engineering as well as partners and customers to synthesize business requirements into themes for upcoming releases.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Developed, implemented and supported a new product development methodology used by over 15 product development teams across all business units at Adobe: • Since launching in 2004, the program was adopted by over 15 product development teams applying the methodology including Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash Player, Acrobat Connect, FlashCast, Flash Mobile Authoring, Flex, Breeze, Contribute, Captivate and other products. • Led product development teams on over 200 worldwide charter customer visits validating new product concepts • Invalidated three product concepts early in the development cycle saving millions in development costs • Integrated a customer-driven requirements development framework process developed at Macromedia into Adobe’s Product Life Cycle (PLC)• Existing products using this method have seen upgrade revenues increase by 70% and overall revenues by 50%.

San Francisco, California, Us

Developed and managed a standardized product development process used by over 10 product teams. Incorporated standard tools and templates such as a business plan and a product pitch. Worked closely with outside product development consulting team and senior management to evolve development framework. The customer presentation template was presented at over 600 customer visits to thousands of customers and prospects interested in next generation Macromedia product such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Breeze, Captivate and Contribute.

San Francisco, California, Us

Designed, prototyped and developed over twelve features for Dreamweaver MX and MX 2004 releases including server behaviors for ASP.NET, PHP, ColdFusion and JSP, tag editors, tag libraries, behaviors using Visual Studio.NET, JavaScript and XML, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP.NET C# & VB.NET and Perforce. Promoted from senior QA engineer.

Moffett Field, California, Us

• Architected and developed a web-based collaboration tool for NASA scientists cataloguing near-by star systems housing potential extrasolar (Earth-like) planets called NStars• Built, deployed and managed websites and applications with NASA scientists related to astrobiology and space sciences

Executive Education

Bachelors, Operations Management Information Systems