Steve Gardner Email & Phone Number

Auckland, NZ

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

• Our newly branded digital AI company spun-out from Autogrow focused on sharing our knowledge and expertise with data, artificial intelligence and plant science to transform the controlled environment agriculture.
• Develop product vision and align it with business vision
• Develop product strategy and align it with business strategy
• Develop and manage product roadmap
• Grow, manage and mentor the team including product owners, managers, designers and researchers
• Align product with other business units including engineering, marketing, sales and finance

Auckland, New Zealand

In January 2021, the Autogrow business was divided into two seperate entities. I continued as Head of Product for WayBeyond Ltd. The roles and responsibilities in both roles were essentially identical. See above for role details.

Auckland, New Zealand

• After working as an external consultant with Bevie for eighteen months they offered me a full-time position based in Auckland.
• Contributed to the transition from physical product to software product and the establishment of a community SaaS platform to expand into a larger market segment (planned 10x growth over two years).
• Managed monetisation of software products to introduce additional revenue streams.
• Established agile practices and managed the transition from waterfall for both the team and business leadership.
• Directed design in order to unify visual identity and user experience across web, mobile apps and IoT devices.
• Defined mobile architecture strategy.

New Zealand / South Africa

• While transitioning from South Africa to New Zealand I consulted with two businesses (one in South Africa and the other in New Zealand).
• Developed a platform strategy to expand market reach and value proposition.
• Established and mentored an in-house mobile app development team.
• Directed user experience and user interface design for both web and mobile applications.
• Managed cross-functional initiatives including, C-suite executives, marketing, engineering and design.

Kloof, Durban, South Africa

• I merged Sub-Lime Media with DigitLab due to our complementary service offering and to allow me to focus on my core skills of technical strategy and direction for both our business and for our clients. In this role I.
• Managed international clients and suppliers.
• Acted as an outsourced Product Manager for a number of startups.
• Was responsible for managing and directing the engineering team.
• Built and led a dedicated mobile app development team.
• Was involved with leading the introduction of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to the business.

Monocle is a SaaS product developed at DigitLab to target a niche of data analytics tools tailored for marketing professionals needing real-time answers rather than just access to data.My role covered strategic direction and management of all stages of development from productideation to go-to-market. It also included overseeing DevOps (AWS, Elasticsearch.

A SaaS product in the web-to-print (web2print) space facilitation the ordering of personalised marketing collateral. My role covered strategic direction and management of all stages of development from product ideation through to end-of-life (of certain features) and some pivots in-between.

• Sub-Lime Media was focused on digital media development with core competencies in online application development and later mobile application development.
• New Business Development
• Technical Direction
• Creative Direction (UI & UX)
• Project Management
• Software Development