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CHARLES B

Portland,OR

Summary

Personable and strategic thinker with passion for driving organizational success and fostering collaborative team environments. Possesses deep understanding of leadership principles and financial management, with strong skills in project oversight and strategic planning. Prepared to deliver impactful results through innovative solutions and effective team leadership.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Product Strategy

Bold
11.2022 - 11.2024

• Lead organization-wide initiative to optimize experience for international users to our .com

and .uk sites resulting in a 39% increase in conversion rate and 12% increase in revenue

• Launched B2B strategy targeting Higher education, Fortune 1000 companies, and

employment offices

• Spearheaded new product development and enhanced existing products

• Collaborated with customers, partners and internal teams to drive product vision and

project prioritization

• Developed and managed product requirements by organizing documentation, feature

requests and tickets for implementation.

• Coordinated with engineering staff to determine best technical implementation methods

and schedule.

• Supervised design, developer and data engineering resources to propel new product

development projects.

• Delivered polished products by directing launch and ongoing refinement

Head of Marketplace

Frontdoor
03.2021 - 11.2022
  • Lead operational strategy for Frontdoor's on-demand home service marketplace, ProConnect
  • In collaboration with ProConnect GM, develop and implement business strategy and work with Frontdoor leadership on most impactful areas of the business
  • Lead Strategy & operations related to (1) launching & scaling new market services and (2) optimizing existing market services
  • Work cross-functionally across matrix, responsible for strategy and execution of key projects
  • This includes but is not limited to:
  • Work with marketing to develop and execute a unified A/B test program to optimize funnel efficiency/customer acquisition and customer satisfaction
  • Work with product and data science to deliver new product enhancements and features that are data-backed to help us achieve topline goals
  • Develop and execute on programs to recruit, engage and retain supply
  • Assist marketing in strategy creation and demand initiatives to better promote product and services
  • Institute daily rigor to marketplace operations via reporting, cadence, and overall data-driven approach to the business
  • Lead weekly business review with all salient stakeholders and report out to ELT on monthly basis
  • Cross-functional thought leader
  • Delivered business strategy and developed systems and procedures to improve operational quality and team efficiency
  • Implemented long-term growth initiatives by developing data-driven strategies
  • Demonstrated exceptional knowledge of customer experience and feature optimization in relation to profit and loss
  • These initiatives have led to84% YoY growth in revenue

Founder and Lead Consultant

CBR Consulting
10.2020 - 03.2022
  • Provide consultative services to political, corporate, non-profit and civic organizations
  • The Haven, Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, Who
  • What
  • Why
  • Provided scalable demand generation and user acquisition tactics & strategies
  • Bend, OR City Council, City of Bend Mayor's Office
  • Provided policy research & analysis on city's key objectives
  • Identified business issues through careful collaboration with key stakeholders
  • Determined areas for improvement and provided data-driven recommendations for new product features and offerings

Sr. Manager, Operational Strategy

TripAdvisor
04.2019 - 03.2020
  • Accountable for the strategic direction, growth, and product vision of the “attraction ticketing initiative” from supply acquisition and optimization, to developing and implementing reporting and analysis requirements
  • Delivered operational efficiencies across product initiatives that lead to30% YoY gain in sales on $125M book of business
  • Managed the development of a new reporting product designed to provide strategic insights, optimizing category efficiency and supporting team strategies
  • Deliver business insight both proactively and reactively, to help leadership make decisions that will maximize category growth
  • Created business cases for new products and features by assessing business problems and/or opportunity, benefits, risk, costs associated with investment appraisal, likely technical solutions, timescale, impact on operations, and capability to deliver project outcomes
  • Seat Map” business case unlocked $50M in incremental revenue
  • Communicate program status to key leadership and stakeholders, ensuring alignment on strategy and actions & collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to help deliver on product improvements and business strategies
  • Analyzed competitive incentive data and evaluated impact data had on marketplace

Sr. Product Strategy Consultant

MediaMint
10.2018 - 04.2019
  • Brought in by CEO to develop, manage and measure operational efficiencies across marketing and client acquisition channels
  • Lead efforts to streamline and scale Media Mint’s marketing and client acquisition channels
  • Assess and develop marketing channels and operating processes to support Media Mint’s growth
  • Develop marketing operation dashboards to align with company KPIs
  • Support the setup, codification and training of core operating processes

Operational Strategy Lead

StubHub
05.2017 - 06.2018
  • MLB | NCAA | MLS | Golf | Tennis | eSports | Rodeo | Boxing/MMA - Accountable for both supporting existing work and developing new business initiatives to continue the growth of a $1 billion+ P&L
  • Key contributor to closing two key strategic deals Major League Baseball Advanced Media: ~$300M in sales and Pacolian Ticketing: ~$150M in sales
  • Lead operational strategy for StubHub’s largest World Series (to date:2016 &2017) and College Football Championship (to date:2018)
  • Supported GM in building data driven strategies and business cases to value new opportunities and grow business
  • Focused on industry trends and StubHub’s competitive position to develop strategies that will maximize category growth
  • Created business cases for new products and features by assessing business problems and/or opportunity, benefits, risk, costs associated with investment appraisal, likely technical solutions, timescale, impact on operations, and capability to deliver project outcomes
  • Seat Map” business case unlocked $50M in incremental revenue
  • Communicate program status to key leadership and stakeholders, ensuring alignment on strategy and actions & collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to help deliver on product improvements and business strategies
  • Analyzed competitive incentive data and evaluated impact data had on marketplace

Strategy and Operations, Partnerships & BD

StubHub
12.2012 - 04.2017
  • Drove business development strategy and partnership optimization through innovative and rigorous data-driven approaches, managed team of3 employees
  • Drove business development strategy from due diligence, analysis, financial modeling through pitch deck execution for targeted partners resulting in $1.5B in partnerships across200 partners
  • Led first comprehensive effort to develop best practices around understanding and optimizing value of partnerships by defining goals, establishing measures, and recommending strategies
  • Launched and managed strategic partnerships across all functions of business
  • Drove business and contractual requirements of revolutionary partnership with Philadelphia76ers resulting in84% growth in sales year-over-year
  • Scaled operations for StubHub’s largest integrated music partnership with AEG/AXS resulting in $714M in sales since launch
  • Managed new business verticals consisting of Gift Card program resulting in over20% sales growth year-over-year and Parking Pass program resulting in over30% sales growth year-over-year

Director of Channel Programs

HomeRun (acquired by Deem (fka Rearden Commerce))
02.2011 - 10.2012
  • Responsible for the management of the strategic partnerships of HomeRun/Rearden Commerce’s largest clients, managed team of3 partner managers
  • Efficiently drove operational implementation for strategic partners such as JPMorgan Chase, American Express, Facebook, Google, AT&T Interactive
  • Defined and implemented operational client requirements in on-boarding and ramping products to launch
  • Effectively identified and communicated product enhancements across internal and client partner teams
  • Improved business processes to increase productivity and align channel sales department with organization

Education

M.S. - Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

B.A. - Business Administration, Classics

Franklin And Marshall College
Lancaster, PA

Skills

    Quantitative:

  • Expert: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint), Salesforce, MixPanel, Sisense, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Domo, PowerBI, Miro, Figma, Google Big Query, Google Data Studio, Jira, Confluence, Seamlessai, Outreachio, Quickbase, Survey Monkey, Zoom, Slack, Google Sheets, Docs, & Slides,
  • Proficient: SQL

    Qualitative;

  • Originality and Creativity, Problem Anticipation and Resolution, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Team Leadership, Focus and Follow-Through, Process Improvement Strategies, Business Growth Initiatives, P&L Responsibility, Budgeting and Forecasting

Profiles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlierockman/

Policy and Leadership Experience

  • POLICY EXPERIENCE (2006 -2010)
  • Empirical Education, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (August2009 - October2010) Project Manager Managed large-scale research studies measuring the efficacy of educational technology programs
  • Education Development Center, New York, NY (September2006 - August2009) Researcher Evaluated the efficacy of domestic and international educational technology initiatives and aided State Education Agencies develop education policy through rigorous research
  • LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE (1999 -2004)
  • Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, New York, NY (August2002 - June2004) Mathematics Department Head coach: soccer, golf
  • The Millbrook School, Millbrook, NY (August1999 - August2002) Teacher: Mathematics Department Head Coach: soccer, golf, lacrosse

Timeline

Director, Product Strategy

Bold
11.2022 - 11.2024

Head of Marketplace

Frontdoor
03.2021 - 11.2022

Founder and Lead Consultant

CBR Consulting
10.2020 - 03.2022

Sr. Manager, Operational Strategy

TripAdvisor
04.2019 - 03.2020

Sr. Product Strategy Consultant

MediaMint
10.2018 - 04.2019

Operational Strategy Lead

StubHub
05.2017 - 06.2018

Strategy and Operations, Partnerships & BD

StubHub
12.2012 - 04.2017

Director of Channel Programs

HomeRun (acquired by Deem (fka Rearden Commerce))
02.2011 - 10.2012

B.A. - Business Administration, Classics

Franklin And Marshall College

M.S. - Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis

University of Wisconsin - Madison
CHARLES B