Experienced product leader with established track-record for quality, impactful products for the business and customers.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Group Product Manager
HubSpot
12.2021 - Current
Lead group to a successful cross-functional launch of the new Help Desk workspace and the Customer Success workspace, as well as many enhancements to the core help desk experience.
Hired and managed 8 product managers across two groups in Service Hub.
Developed the pricing strategy for the Help Desk workspace, and implementing a framework for product managers to follow.
Lead and executed on several org updates, including making hard tradeoffs and decommission missions to keep the team focused.
Maintain key stakeholder relationships across the various groups to enable work across groups.
Lead GTM efforts to enable two major releases and marketing campaigns.
Senior/Lead Product Manager
Hubspot
10.2018 - 12.2021
Developed the live chat product from the initial product release, by focusing on advancing the product to match industry market trends, like advanced targeting, embedding knowledge base search, launching additional channels like Facebook Messenger
Increased active users for live chat tool by 31%, resulting in increase in ~40% of unique visitors starting live chats.
Took on additional mission to focus on making admins successful in the Service Hub product.
Lead several cross-functional products, like simple automation for admins, enhanced service reporting, service level agreement (SLAs) for an internal project to get all of Hubspot using the live chat product, resulting in higher CSAT from our customers and a reduction in business costs.
Hired and managed 3 product managers, scaling them to successful product releases.
Developed help desk group product strategy, pitched to leadership and got funding to develop the strategy.
Product Manager
Lovepop
07.2017 - 09.2018
Redesigned customer experience by implementing core self-service features, such as product images, editor capabilities, order management and payment. Features improved order conversion by 5000%.
Supported A/B testing of landing pages to increase conversion by 100% for targeted campaigns.
Conducted user testing to define user personas and prioritize feature development.
Developed short-term and long-term roadmap for the custom platform, which includes multiple line of businesses.
Led team of five engineers to deliver on roadmap.
Learned SQL to enable analysis, define core metrics for the business, and build dashboards for stakeholders to understand health of the business.
Participated in forecasting exercise for the wedding business to present to the board and define our 2018 metrics.
Defined, tested and implemented email retention strategy, leading to a change in order distribution from older cohorts from 1% to 13% positively impacting CAC.
Partnered with business lead to define B2B personas for a new business line, build short term roadmap and identified tests to run to determine new product features.
Digital Product Manager
Liberty Mutual Insurance
11.2016 - 07.2017
Developed the digital claims Business to
Business product roadmap to
achieve strategic business
KPIs, with development budget of 1.3 million
dollars
out of 8 million dollar total digital claims budget.
Launched new insurance professional online
reporting portal that is on target to result in a reduction of 20,000 incoming
phone calls, saving over $250,000.
Supported the implementation of a new
architectural framework-instilling test automation, blue/green deploys and CI/CD.
This
is the first team to achieve this goal in the department.
Coached team to incorporate progressive agile
practices, such as rolling
planning, validated
learning stories, team health check, and pre-mortem.
Conducted minimal viable product approach leveraging
de-risking activities, such
as, usability testing, validated leanings and A/B testing
approaches.
Partnered with diverse business stakeholders to
move an offline process
completely online in 2
months; including updates to the phone queue,
call-center
process, and quality control, increasing customer adoption by
320%.
Lead, Business System Projects
Liberty Mutual Insurance
12.2015 - 11.2016
Business systems lead for two key strategic products; responsible for testing, business analyst resourcing and management of 5 analysts. Partnered with the product owner to influence direction and vision for half of the overall portfolio budget, 2 million dollars.
Team exceeded business KPIs resulting in superior customer experience as measured by the following metrics: critical first notice of loss application adoption increased by 250%, increase in mobile conversion by more than 65%, claim status call handle time reduced by 14%, and overall NPS improved.
Coached team to replace manual testing and requirements with behavior driven development (BDD). Spearheaded the BDD pilot across the department and worked with teams throughout the portfolio ending in an adoption of over 90%.
Selected to participate in a pilot development scrum team that would work on adopting customer centric practices, such as zero based design workshop, utilizing and creating personas, customer journey mapping and minimal viable product methodology, in an effort to enhance the customer experience and target a key business metric of reducing status calls.
Leveraged lean start up methodologies, to identify experiments that would help prove the business case and customer demand to prioritize future features.
Coordinated and facilitated quarterly planning session portfolio, organizing team quarterly commits, guest speakers and team lightening rounds to increase communication and awareness.