Spearheading the development of product experiences with the goal of transforming education through creativity to result in more engaged learning experiences. Delivered innovative solutions that meet the needs of both K-12 and higher education educators and students worldwide.

Led a product team to deliver design collaboration solutions for teams and enterprises, resulting in the creation of a new customer segment worth potentially $100M+ in revenue.

Led team of product managers to improve user growth and retention using a data driven approach. Products included: a friction-less social sharing experience on mobile and tablet, a content discovery feed leveraging a custom-built CMS, and a white-labeled audio platform integration

• Defined and evangelized the strategic product vision across the organization to build support and consensus among C-level executives

• Coordinated user research, prototyping, and design to prove initial concepts

• Evaluated key partnership opportunities to meet long term business objectives

Led cross-functional product team to build and launch monetization products with a focus on content-rich experiences. Additionally, owned product strategy and roadmap for strategic advertiser partnerships.

• Launched a custom-built Content Management System (CMS) for delivering audio and advertising display content to millions of users

• Managed 3rd party partnership to build a concert recommendation feed based on user listening history generating affiliate revenue stream

• Defined and built advertiser facing analytics platform to surface actionable campaign insights.

• Spear-headed monetization product releases generating $100M+ revenue, including: web/mobile/tablet ads redesign, Facebook Connect sponsorships, iPad ad products, audio/video ads, mobile & tablet display ads, premium subscription gift codes/trials, enhanced targeting, and native content ads.

Led strategy, roadmap and feature definition for a cross-functional 8-10 person team composed of design, engineering and QA, ultimately resulting in at its peak 30M+ monthly visitors.

• Launched engagement and retention features, including: crowd-based question & answer platform, Twitter/Facebook widgets, AB testing framework, Drupal-based content management system, and the first user-facing recommendation engine

• Oversaw 3rd party integration of the first social "Digg" button on external sites, leading to 2x increased brand awareness and return visits

• Gathered analytics and collected qualitative feedback through user focus groups and surveys to measure feature effectiveness and understand user pain points