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Pre-launch, led customer development process to build beta community and develop ICP and positioning.

I got to spearhead several big bets at Credit Karma as the company embarked on a new product strategy. As their free credit score value prop was getting commoditized, Credit Karma had the goal of becoming the money button on consumers phones. I got to play both offense and defense on this:Offense • 0 to 1 launched a bank account that grew to be in the top of 5 US neobanks in its first year • I lead the biggest redesign of the core app experience since launch; leveraged personalization and a novel UX paradigm to deepen engagement & increase revenue amongst our 140M user baseDefense • I reimagined the core credit offering, significantly differentiating it from incumbent copycats, which deepened engagement amongst our user base and improved the credit score of millions of Credit Karma users

The Products that Count podcast was a Webby Award Honoree!As a podcast host, I published one episode each month driving thoughtful conversations with product leaders about unfair advantages, leadership at scale, and crafting products that win.Subscribe here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/product-talk/id1038890550

Brightwheel is the first mobile platform for early education, serving as the hub for preschools, daycares, & families. I joined at seed stage as the 9th hire and quickly ramped to understand the early childhood education space. I was responsible for roadmap, feature development, user research, people management and hiring across product, design, and engineering. Key partner to sales & customer success teams.My main focus was driving product-led growth and monetization strategy:• Established a data-informed decision making culture for the executive team by creating a weekly core metrics deck; this allowed us to focus & coordinate our growth efforts across product, customer success and sales• Launched and grew two key product pillars that became the main drivers of monetization, Brightwheel Premium and Billing

Zinc is a secure enterprise communication platform built to connect deskless and mobile workers with colleagues both in and out of the office.• Owned and executed product roadmap, leading a team of 35+ product managers, designers, and engineers on all feature development• Expanded product from seed-stage MVP to full featured multi-platform communication hub for deskless workers and, as a result, grew our cumulative user base by 16x, ARR by 40x and measured an NPS of 48 (i.e. excellent)• Lead development of entire product roadmap until acquisition by ServiceMax• Responsible for building out Product and Design teams from scratch• Designed and implemented product development process that resulted in faster development cycles and improved product quality; shipped a new feature every 1.5 weeks on average

Yammer is an enterprise social network that enables employees to collaborate across departments, geographies and business applications. Acquired by Microsoft for $1.2B in Oct '12.• Product oversight for the new user experience, mobile apps, search and email. Responsible for all feature development in these areas; including conceptualization, prioritization, execution and analysis• Lead a squad of 30 including product managers, designers, researchers, analysts, and engineers• Coached broader product team on: scoping an MVP, negotiating with engineers, experiment design, and analyzing a/b test results

BlackBerry provides wireless devices and solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market.• Launched the first version BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, generating significant press coverage and a near perfect rating in BlackBerry App World store• Owned and executed product roadmap and shipped subsequent releases

• Managed multi-month cross-functional development projects on BlackBerry MVS (a mobile PBX product) to successful delivery• Created a maintenance program to meet support contracts for in-market products• Lead the Redwood Shores engineering team transition to a new development framework, from waterfall to scrum

Managed the delivery of large-scale software projects including: integration of compression algorithms into Java Apps, internationalization of out-of-box-experience, content development kit for partners, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Digitized years of research into data-rich phylogenetic trees to accelerate Schizophrenia genetic linkage study focusing on multiply-affected families. Contributed to article published in American Journal of Human Genetics.