Sean Gardner Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

Focused on the strategic execution of integrated and effective digital solutions for NYL.com. Responsible for identifying complex challenges that impact the day-to-day operations and develop/implement solutions across multidisciplinary stakeholders to ensure delivery of onsite experiences that align to key business goals.Leading a team of digital professionals to implement new processes, align with key project stakeholders, and assist team members in developing executive level communications.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Director of Product for Octopart, a subsidiary of Altium. Responsible for generating long-term product strategy to support current Octopart business objectives as well as building new growth opportunities across an evolving electrical engineering and CAD marketplace. Overhauled and scaled growth-stage business operations between parent and subsidiary teams including Sales, Marketing, Data Science and Engineering.Drove continuous improvement and output of consumer-facing platform experiences, revenue-driving Sales and Marketing initiatives as well as enterprise-wide integrations with parent company Altium.Directed a team of Product Managers and Product Designers with a strong focus on employee development and growth.

Scoped and executed Consumer Marketing projects across enterprise-wide digital platforms as well as custom microsites, Emerging Technology and Acquisition/Retention channels. Head of the Digital Production team.Accelerated department output YOY by growing Production team from five to over twenty employees with focus on high performing staff retention and career growth across all job titles.Reduced project costs by restructuring $20MM+ budget in Oracle system, introducing Asana and JIRA workflows, standardizing vendor contract negotiations and onboarding.Increased KPI’s including streaming per user with strategic execution of full UX redesign, migration to Adobe AEM CMS, integration of A/B Testing with Adobe Target and move to new Adobe AWS infrastructure to improve performance. GDPR and CCPA compliant.Raised user engagement by ideating OTT streaming product features, optimizing content discovery and representing Consumer Marketing need for updated data layers and user attribution.Decreased cost per subscriber by developing new multichannel programs of email, push messaging and DTC top-of-funnel touchpoints. Heavy cross-functional sprint cycle and project management.Generated new revenue from partners such as Apple, Google, and Amazon by leading end-to-end development of VR/AR activations as well as Voice Skills.

Led all digital content efforts for Comedy Central's Stand-Up programming. Includes associated ad sales integrations, brand relaunch and multi-platform product offerings across web, mobile and iOS App.

Responsible for the production of XML-based online e-learning software through the use of proprietary Kaplan toolsets. Published all course content to the Kaplan Learning Platform.