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Paul Connors

Snoqualmie,WA

Summary

Accomplished Director of Product Management with a proven track record across multiple, high-profile companies for creating impactful user-outcome models and fostering community dialogue, demonstrating exceptional verbal communication and data analysis skills.

Guiding principles collected along the way.

• Finger pointing is for amateurs.
• Showing how to find an answer is cool. Acting like teammates should know everything is not.
• Politicians build expensive products no one wants.
• Mistakes of action are forgivable. Mistakes of inaction are not.
• Data beats opinion.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director, Product Management - Data Clean Room

Epsilon
11.2022 - Current
  • Spearheaded a transparent health & performance dashboard painting a product funnel for four data clean room products serving 100+ advertising clients and driving over $55 million in 2023 with projected growth to over $78 million in 2024.
  • Boosted the user community for clean room products with a discussion board and help center serving over 300 unique, monthly users.
  • Shifted the product guidance toward a user-outcome model.
  • Expanded the collection of case studies used to demonstrate the value of clean room products.
  • Created a central repository of user-voice collateral.
  • Established a culture of continuous improvement by fostering open communication channels and empowering employees to voice their ideas.

Senior Product Manager, Technical

T-Mobile
10.2017 - 11.2022
  • Developed processes and products to ensure that T-Mobile's network is always on, available, and compliant.
  • Composed and evangelized a strategic execution framework of objectives & key results.
  • Developed and launched 911-At-A-Glance Digital Signage.
  • Designed and developed Control Lifecycle Visibility for a workflow view of regulatory compliance efforts among multiple teams.
  • Created the Security Vital Signs model for basic and broad understanding of security health and subsequent actions.

Senior Technical Product Manager

Bluetooth SIG
06.2016 - 08.2017

Led the development of Launch Studio, the qualification platform (quality assurance to ensure device interoperability and compliance with Bluetooth standards) for all 40,000 Bluetooth member companies.

Director of Product & Strategy

Mercent
05.2012 - 05.2016

Led product development team for Mercent Retail platform. Mercent Retail provided retailers and brands with one integration to optimize performance for thousands of products across multiple online marketplace and shopping channels (such as Google, Amazon, and eBay).

Senior Product Manager

Razorfish
06.2008 - 04.2012

Led development of Audience Insights, an addressable-audience segment creation platform for targeted advertising optimization. Audience Insights, a data management platform (DMP) was a predecessor to today's data clean rooms.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
06.1989

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Operations Management
  • Program Optimization
  • Story pitching
  • Data Analysis

Certification

Objective & Key Result Certified Coach

Pragmatic Institute Business of Data Science

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Agile Certified Product Manager

Timeline

Director, Product Management - Data Clean Room

Epsilon
11.2022 - Current

Senior Product Manager, Technical

T-Mobile
10.2017 - 11.2022

Senior Technical Product Manager

Bluetooth SIG
06.2016 - 08.2017

Director of Product & Strategy

Mercent
05.2012 - 05.2016

Senior Product Manager

Razorfish
06.2008 - 04.2012

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Washington

Objective & Key Result Certified Coach

Pragmatic Institute Business of Data Science

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Agile Certified Product Manager

Paul Connors