Are you looking for an Interim Product Leader?

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Short Term Vacancy

Do you need a safe pair of hands to fill a temporary vacancy caused by illness, pregnancy or churn?

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Special Projects

Is there a special project you want to give dedicated focus to, or a product strategy you want a fresh perspective on?

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Building A Product Team

Do you need help creating a high performing product organization?

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About me

Product leader | Growth hacker | Entrepreneur

Over 25 years experience in product leadership and analytic marketing. Skilled in aligning product vision and business strategy, creating high performing teams and turning customer insights into revenue opportunities. Deep expertise in e-commerce, two-sided marketplaces and price management.

Graduate of The Kellogg School of Management, summa cum laude, and Oxford University with global business experience. 

Demonstrated success in: 
- leading and building product organisations
- scaling startups from A-series to C-series
- delivering multi-million increases in revenue and margin 

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Vision

Do you need a compelling product vision which your organisation will buy into? I can create ambitious product visions that clearly define differentiated customer value propositions, driving organizational alignment and enabling product teams to make fast independent decisions. 

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People

Want to maximize your product teams results? I love guiding people as individuals and as teams to achieve their optimal performance. I spend a lot of time in 1-1s providing a safe space to understand challenges and work through different potential resolutions.

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Processes

Need to keep your organization aligned, informed and motivated? Having worked in digital businesses at different growth stages, I can implement processes that support company growth without slowing down product development. 

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Organisation Size

Are you encountering unique challenges based on your organization's growth stage? I have demonstrated success across the product lifecycle, from leading small teams to find product market fit and manage early hypergrowth, to optimizing products in matrixed billion dollar businesses. 

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Location

Want in-person support? Whilst I have over 10 years experience managing remote teams, I'm also available globally for onsite engagements:
- British citizen
- US Green Card holder
- Based in Berlin, Germany 
- German Aufenthaltstitel holder

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Language

I'm a native English speaker with conversational French and German. I have many years experience communicating with diverse international audiences with differing levels of English fluency.

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“We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.”
~Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Masters of Business Administration

2009- 2013
Kellogg School of Management

B.A. English Language & Literature

2009- 2013
Oxford University

Experience

Interim Product Leader

2022 ─ Present

Offering interim product leadership services to clients globally.

Entrepreneur, Antler

2022 ─ Present

Exploring concepts applying generative AI technologies to early learning and language acquisition. 

Product Management Consultant, Preply

2019 ─ 2022

Led multiple product squads focused on tutor-side strategies, B2B growth and subject curriculum at global ed-tech marketplace matching language learners with online tutors during hypergrowth from series A to series C:
- Improved tutor admission process to enable rapid tutor acquisition to meet student demand
- Increased tutor quality on several key metrics to drive up student satisfaction and LTV
- Deep investigation into the relationship between supply quality and marketplace success metrics

VP Product, Home 24

2016 ─ 2018

Reporting to the CEO, managed product, design and consumer research functions at 300 million euro revenue European online furniture retailer:
- Transformed organization to dedicated agile squads
- Established consumer research and testing departments
- Oversaw SAP implementation to more accurately predict delivery times

Senior Director Product Management, Sears

2011 ─ 2016

Led 12 product teams and the taxonomy organization at the multi-billion dollar revenue US omni-channel retailer:
- Drove on-site optimisation program leading to numerous multi-million dollar improvements in top-line revenues
- Initiated fundamental re-think of the listing strategy for 3rd party products on the Sears website
- Negotiated site-wide changes across highly matrixed business organization

“Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don’t have are enough customers.”
~Gabriel Weinberg, Traction

Contact

Contact me

If you want to get in touch with me you can email me at interimproductleader@gmail.com or message me on LinkedIn. I normally respond within 24 hours.