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Ned Lindau

Product Leader
Brooklyn,NY

Summary

True generalist & product leader with a decade of diverse experience at startups & Google across a variety of roles, including sales/go-to-market leadership, people management, product strategy, and product management. Proven ability to learn & deliver impact quickly. Track record of promotions every ~1.5 years. Guided by curiosity.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Principal Product Manager

Atlassian
09.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for organization and navigation in Confluence
  • Leading product-wide conceptual model refresh
  • Exceeded expectations in first performance review — in top 10% of product managers at company

Product Manager

Google Drive
1 2020 - 08.2023
  • Lead for finding in Drive (search, navigation, intelligence); scope impacts >1bn MAU, >40 eng, 6 UX designers
  • Led sharing & access management across Workspace, spanning consumer features to enterprise admin access control; 400m MAU, team of 27 engineers
  • Promoted after 1.2 years, 60% ahead of median
  • Received 1x "Exceeds" & 2x "Strongly Exceeds" (top 15% of Google) ratings in performance reviews
  • Led launch of new sharing dialog with average user satisfaction of 4.4/5 (30% higher than previous version)
  • Led discovery of and launched Drive Spam classifier (top organizational priority) with >90% precision & recall (SVP+ level visibility)
  • Created and led Drive sharing product vision, principles, strategy, & roadmap
  • Created and led internal community of >1,000 employees interested in becoming PMs
  • Co-lead of Alphabet-wide of internal PM mobility group.

Global Lead

Cloud Education Solutions (Outbound PM), Google
10.2019 - 01.2021
  • Created own role
  • Responsible for vision, strategy, proof of concept, and scaling of Google Cloud solutions for global education markets
  • Average performance review score of "Strongly Exceeds" (top 15% of Google)
  • Promoted after 1 year, 50% of median for role
  • Managed priorities and work of internal solution architects and external development partners
  • Conceived of and led state dept of ed data warehouse and analytics solution, which led to $xxM revenue within 1 year
  • Led complex strategic and technical alliance with Unizin to make its higher ed data integration platform available to GCP partners, unlocking >$200M in pipeline
  • Designed and led UXR for analytics dashboard templates, leading to immediate adoption from multiple R1 universities.

Program Manager

Education, Google
05.2018 - 10.2019
  • Responsible for growing Google for Education's presence in NW US
  • Received "Exceeds," "Strongly Exceeds," and "Superb" (top 6% of Google) ratings in performance reviews
  • Exceeded 100% of core role OKRs in 4/4 quarters at Google
  • 20% role: PM for Google Edu transformation reports
  • Exceeded launch goal by 51%
  • 20% role: Led strategy for GfE 1P data analytics play, which I successfully parlayed into full-time role.

Director of Sales & Strategy

NoRedInk, San Francisco
09.2014 - 05.2018
  • 6th employee
  • Reported to CEO, sat on company leadership team, was responsible for company revenue and product strategy as we scaled from $0-$10M ARR
  • Promoted 4 times in
  • Managed team of 12 across sales, account management, sales ops, implementation
  • Only had one team member leave company
  • Defined initial product pricing & SaaS business model
  • Grew revenue from $0-$10M ARR in 4 sales years (YoY revenue grew >2x in 3/4 years)
  • Acted as de facto first salesperson; personally closed ~$2.2M in new + renewal/expansion business for 2016-17 school year (including 9/10 largest deals in company history)
  • Developed state & district priority ranking formulas (done in SQL) to determine product position and allocation of sales resources
  • Led marketing automation strategy to drive viral growth within schools.

Management Trainee

McMaster-Carr, Chicago
08.2013 - 06.2014
  • Selected as trainee in future managers and executives program
  • Ideated and led project to overhaul employee productivity metric; led to immediate adoption by all 5 company branches
  • Quickly realized it wasn't the company for me :-).

Teacher

Teach for America
06.2011 - 06.2013
  • Taught grades 5-8 transitional bilingual reading and writing
  • Selected as one of 5,300 accepted candidates out of 45,000 applicants to teach in an urban or rural school district across
  • Led students to more than 2 years of reading growth during each school year according to North West Evaluation Association (NWEA) assessment, a nationally recognized gauge of academic progress (top 5% of Chicago corps)
  • Was 1 of 25 (~250 total) Chicago corps members nominated for the Sue Lehmann award for excellence in teaching.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English; Spanish

Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
08.2007 - 05.2011

Skills

    Thrive in ambiguity

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Feedback

  • Senior Eng, Google: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cKrsIEiAPQsaXIjrdbPsn8VSxyfgFuic/view
  • Staff UX Designer, Google: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19SsNvKnCVrXMTkTkR5iEffDyzSlG36S6/view
  • CEO, NoRedInk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XY_hvTjj-m7zp7Lbceiz-xYPvMHAQ3ck/view
  • Direct Report 1, NoRedInk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qIl8_s_q1a35FHZrp-Uck2c1OhmLdg0U/view
  • Direct Report 2, NoRedInk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19zkcOiAvHKf14jy_tFeckBHUOWBAJ8kM/view
  • Direct Report 3, NoRedInk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-cgSlvzKQHKaub1-C0WmY8TeS7XUNUc/view

Timeline

Principal Product Manager

Atlassian
09.2023 - Current

Global Lead

Cloud Education Solutions (Outbound PM), Google
10.2019 - 01.2021

Program Manager

Education, Google
05.2018 - 10.2019

Director of Sales & Strategy

NoRedInk, San Francisco
09.2014 - 05.2018

Management Trainee

McMaster-Carr, Chicago
08.2013 - 06.2014

Teacher

Teach for America
06.2011 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Arts - English; Spanish

Oberlin College
08.2007 - 05.2011

Product Manager

Google Drive
1 2020 - 08.2023

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