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PRODUCT MANAGEMENT WORK

Below is a collection of efforts and responsibilities held in current or previous roles.

Product Management, Releases, and Development

  • Led the release of product changes while accounting for all ramifications across the company.
  • Coordinated the timing of product release efforts to minimize customer impact.
  • Developed feature requirements and built design frameworks to ensure product changes would encompass the intended functionality. 
  • Created iterative release plans for feature bundles to allow for feedback from customers as enhancements were made. 
  • Coordinated and conducted site accessibility reviews, developing the technical requirements for needed product changes. 

Discovery and feedback gathering

  • Conducted discovery and feedback rounds focused on specific product feature sets at GiveGab.
  • Utilized surveys to gather feedback from a comprehensive set of internal stakeholders
  • Created clean documentation to help the product team establish a roadmap of enhancements that tackle the pain points identified in the discovery. 

Product Manager Partnership

  • Met weekly 1:1 with the Director of Engineering to review the latest product developments and relay changes to the rest of the company.  
  • Ensured all applicable documentation was updated and 100% accurate for new product releases
  • Created plans when a customer or internal friction (when applicable) arose 
  • Reviewed product bugs and documented impact scope for the use of product managers.

Product Council Member

  • An active member of the company-wide monthly Product Council
  • Responsible for relaying Project Management department feedback and insights
  • Harnessed product request (from Aha!, and Airtable) data from the company to communicate client trends

SaaS Product Knowledge

  • Was a platform export for 2 main product verticals (at GiveGab). 
  • Relied upon daily by team members to provide insight into complex platform functionality and explain the "why" behind it. 
  • Shared best practices on how to harness the platform functionality and performance for the customer so they could maximize their success. 

Documentation and data management

  • Created new feature documentation (on behalf of Product Managers).
  • Used Airtable and Aha! to gather internal product feedback that created deeper learnings into trends and areas of opportunity within each product vertical. 

User Stories

  • Did discovery to identify feature requirements for product changes.
  • Wrote hundreds of user stories for engineers to use.
  • Worked directly with engineers on issues and feature iteration.
  • Topics include New features, Bugs, and Maintenance

Product Testing

  • Created testing frameworks to ensure desired outcomes for product features.
  • Coordinated a comprehensive review of testing practices done by our Project Management team to ensure each product change was being reviewed accurately and efficiently. Reduced associated effort by over 35%. 

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