Sam Hay Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

As Expert Product Manager for Element, Bayer's Design System, I am responsible for the coordination, strategy and delivery of features for Bayer's enterprise UX kit. I coordinate with users, stakeholders, and product teams to ensure that the design system is delivering valuable assets to speed product development and ensure the best experience for all of Bayer's end users.I manage a team of design and development experts and coordinate our backlog for maximum results. I also serve as Element's principal product evangelist and customer service specialist, meeting with users and stakeholders, spreading awareness of the design system, helping teams adopt and deploy the system, and working with them to launch their products in a timely way while delivering a user-centric strategy enterprise-wide.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

As an Expert Product Owner, I'm responsible for maintaining and prioritizing the features backlog for Element, Bayer's Design System. I also serve as the lead point of contact for all users and stakeholders of the design system, handling onboarding, troubleshooting and partnerships across Bayer's brands and business ventures.I ensure that users across all of Bayer's digital products have a consistent, accessible, and effective experience while making sure our toolset meets industry-leading standards.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

As Senior Product Specialist for the Element Design System, I manage training, onboarding, troubleshooting and communication for a variety of users across Bayer's digital product design platform. I create training materials and documentation to promote and streamline the use of the Element Design System and act as a subject matter expert and initial point of contact for all types of design and development inquiries.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

As Product Manager on the digital marketing platform, I managed development on several dozen of Bayer's vegetable and row crop brand websites.

Greater St. Louis Area

As a product specialist, I was responsible for building website wireframes for Bayer Crop Science's seed brands and coordinating their content strategy and launch with content authors and industry experts.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

As Product Strategist, I worked to conceptualize, scope, design and oversee development of all of the company's new offerings. Some of the products I lead include SnapShot: an application that allowed hoteliers to track the spending and interests of their guests, SocialRev: a social media advertising program that planned campaigns using predictive modeling and audience segmentation, and our company's client portal application. Duties Included:Market and Customer Research to determine product features and design.UX Design to create mockups as proof of concept for customer approval and developers to work off of.Project Management to oversee the development of products.Creating screenshots and documentation of products for training and sales purposes. Demoing products to customers to evaluate features and design.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

As Social Strategist, I conceptualized, marketed and ran the company's social media marketing program, SocialRev. Using Digital Alchemy's wealth of data sources, I segmented email campaigns with social advertising campaigns across Facebook and Instagram with timing strategies based on predictive modeling. Duties Included:Pitching SocialRev to current and potential clients.Overseeing and participating in market research and data analytics work to develop strategies catered to each client. Creating, monitoring and managing paid social media campaigns for all SocialRev clients. Preparing and walking clients through campaign reports. Creating and posting content to the company's social media pages.

I develop branding strategies and occasionally produce materials, designs and websites for a variety of local businesses and artists.

Austin, Texas Area

With Gallant I've developed social media strategies and schedules and compiled comprehensive competitor creative summaries for a number of local retail and consumer brands.

Austin, Texas

As a teaching assistant, I helped organize materials and slides for each lecture, along with a variety of administrative and scheduling duties.

Austin, Texas Area

At Leverage PR I helped research new business leads, compile media contact lists and write articles and Pitches for clients primarily operating in the finance sector.

Austin, Texas Area

At PetersGroup PR, I conducted research for clients such as Kenichi and South West Engineers in order to write informed bylined articles and press releases. I researched and crafted case studies summarizing specific Austin communities including food bloggers, hotel workers and the Texas Rangers for our clients. I also developed situation analyses of various startups and their field of competitors to help guide PetersGroup’s new client acquisition.

Austin, Texas Area

I worked as a Teaching Assistant for Professor John Murphy teaching Introduction to Advertising and Branding Communications, a difficult course that was required for undergrad acceptance to the school of communications. As part of my work, I prepared lecture materials and graded student work. I also lectured on the importance of carefully researched messaging in public relations.

706 S 5Th St, Milwaukee Wi 53204

At Bucketworks, I helped rebrand the organization and develop fliers and promotional materials for Bucketworks and it's various affiliated organizations including the Space Federation and The School Factory. I served as a branding expert on Bucketworks' in-house team of consultants for a number of clients including the Wisconsin Department of Commerce. I specialized in researching for clients and creating customized branding materials and strategies.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

As the Editor In Chief of Emmie Music Magazine, I oversaw the rebranding of the magazine and development of an interactive website. On a day to day basis, I edited articles and delegated responsibilities in addition to contacting record labels and promoters to arrange advance copies of albums and concert tickets and interview opportunities for writers. I also helped rebrand the magazine to better attract some underserved audiences in the Madison area.

As Publicity Coordinator with the Campus Women's Center, it was my duty to create all of the publicity materials for the organizations events and programs and to manage the public image of the organization. As part of my duties, I also planned the annual Women's Music Fest and served as a representative to other organizations and the press.

Master Of Arts, Advertising

Activities and Societies: Texas AdGrads, TAG, Austin Advertising Federation

Ba, Journalism - Strategic Communications - Advertising And Communication Arts - Radio, Tv, Film

Activities and Societies: WSUM student radio, EMMIE Magazine, Women In REDzine, Women In RED Records, WUD Publications Committee, Campus.