Amanda Kunkel
Pittsburgh,United States
Summary
Experienced with product development, roadmapping, and project management. Utilizes agile methodologies and strategic planning to deliver market-leading solutions. Track record of fostering team collaboration and driving impactful results.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Product Manager
Intertek Alchemy
04.2024 - Current
- -Lead product strategy and execution across multiple SaaS products, including desktop and web applications
- -Define product vision, roadmap, and priorities while managing backlogs and sprint goals in Agile/SAFe environments
- -Collaborate with engineering, design, and stakeholders to translate customer feedback and market research into product features
- -Oversee end-to-end delivery of high-impact initiatives such as NFS — S3 migrations, performance improvements, and UI/UX modernization
- -Serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring solutions align with business objectives and deliver measurable value
- -Partner with marketing and sales on go-to-market strategies to drive adoption and revenue growth
- -Monitor product performance, analyze feedback, and iterate to continuously improve the user experience
- -Mentor and coach Product Managers, support hiring decisions, and contribute to team process improvements
- -Represent products externally at conferences, site visits, and customer demos
Product Manager
Community Brands
09.2021 - 04.2024
- -Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
- -Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by engineering teams
- -Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
- -Analyze market data to develop sales strategies, and define product objectives for effective marketing communications plans
- -Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products and balance of resources to ensure success for the entire organization
- -Manages multiple team’s development backlogs including owning the priority, grooming user stories, and working the with Agile development team on a daily basis
- -Develop product positioning and messaging that differentiates Community Brand its features across primary market segments
Convention Data Service
01.2001 - 07.2021
- -Review, analyze, and evaluate business systems and user needs including documenting requirements, defining scope and objectives, and formulating systems to parallel overall business strategies
- -Perform detailed analysis by outlining problems, reconciling conflicts, identifying opportunities, and documenting solutions
- -Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that can be implemented by developers and tested by QA
- -Create process models, workflows, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide directions to developers and QA
- -Work with QA to ensure adequate user acceptance tests are captured and performed
- -Provide coaching/testing sessions on new products
- -Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that can be implemented by developers and tested by QA
Education
High School Diploma -
Brunswick High School
Brunswick, MD06-1998
Skills
- Product launches
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Product roadmaps
- Strategic planning
Certification
- Project Management Essentials Certified
- POPM
- Six Sigma White Belt
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Pendo Certified
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Intertek Alchemy
04.2024 - Current
Product Manager
Community Brands
09.2021 - 04.2024
Convention Data Service
01.2001 - 07.2021
High School Diploma -
Brunswick High School
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