Wade Johnston Email & Phone Number

Mclean, VA, US

New York, NY, US

• While at Foursquare I led a team of product managers working on Foursquare’s point of interest dataset of over 200 million global locations. I managed through uncertainty to help deliver continual improvement and new.
• Delivered product vision through multiple Amazon style press releases and “six pagers” to help align the team on our goals and bring context to engineering, design and go-to-market teams
• Hired and led a team of product managers to focus across multiple product elements, including data quality, ingestion of new data and core platform systems
• Consistently delivered against a roadmap of new features while the product was being re-platformed and integrated with the legacy system

Seattle, WA, US

• Delivered $30MM of wins as the destination content lead, working with content strategists, UX researchers and designers across front end and platform engineering teams
• Lead the user research, vision, strategy and roadmap for a new natural language generation software delivering truthful and accurate text content across all of Expedia.com and Hotels.com via API
• Implemented ML models into production that improved image classification and delivery resulting in increased click through rates and funnel progression
• Managed a team of 2 product managers across localization, destination content and natural language generation managing the work of 3 engineering teams
• Heavily matrixed role where a bias to action, persuasion and continuous collaboration was required to achieve results
• Worked remotely with teams in Seattle, Chicago, Montreal, Austin and London

Chicago, IL, US

• Built SaaS software using an agile framework, working directly with tech leads, engineers, data scientists, and UX designers to develop user stories and product requirements
• Actively ran user interviews, UX testing, and generative research for future applications within the data science platform
• Sponsored and lead design sprints for Civis decision applications built within the data science platform
• Collaborated with sales and marketing teams on business plans, go to market plans, sales enablement training for the release of features use by data scientists, data engineers and business analysts
• Delivered updated pricing strategy for a key consumer data product resulting in doubling data revenue within 1 year
• Managed a product manager and product analyst working across engineering and data analyst teams

New York, NY, US

• Collaborated with Data Science, Product and Operations to create and implement a standard deployment playbook that was used to implement over 30 solutions across 80 countries
• Selected to be part of a 2 year leadership rotation in Six Sigma and Lean process improvement
• Executed research to identify user needs and create KPI’s and key results for brand new processes and products.
• Lead a process improvement effort across sales, finance and product, resulting in additional collection of $4 million in previously non-billed contracted revenue
• Delivered an additional $500,000 in EBITDA through a self-initiated review of our ad-hoc pricing structure
• Championed a product rationalization and cost leadership effort driving $2.5million of positive EBITDA impact

Lake Zurich, Illinois, US

In my role as New Products Manager I had P&L responsibility for the R&D budget, lead our project team in new product development, and manage the internal and external marketing of newly introduced products.

Lake Zurich, Illinois, US

As customer service manager I was responsible for developing and implementing all new policies regarding the treatment of customers and for training customer and technical service reps. I was a functional lead for the ERP implementation (JD Edwards), responsible for sales order processing and inventory management.

Lake Zurich, Illinois, US