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Senior Product Manager @ SoulCycle Inc. Role Overview: Manage SoulCycle iOS and Android apps• Launched SoulBeat, an in-app experience that combines user performance data and music from SoulCycle classes• Launched SoulCycle Android app• Managed roadmap and backlog for SoulCycle's mobile product team. Greater New York City AreaProduct Manager (Mobile) @ Barnes & Noble, Inc. Role Overview: Product...

Senior Product Manager @ SoulCycle Inc. Role Overview: Manage SoulCycle iOS and Android apps• Launched SoulBeat, an in-app experience that combines user performance data and music from SoulCycle classes• Launched SoulCycle Android app• Managed roadmap and backlog for SoulCycle's mobile product team. Greater New York City AreaProduct Manager (Mobile) @ Barnes & Noble, Inc. Role Overview: Product management position responsible for roadmap and success of Barnes and Noble’s mobile website and native application (iOS and Android)Responsibilities:• Prioritize mobile website and native app roadmap, working with B&N executives and tech teams to deliver value to customers and B&N organization• Monitor key e-commerce KPIs and collaborate with B&N optimization team to test into revenue-producing improvements• Partner with external vendors, ensuring work of offshore development teams is coordinated with internal B&N technology and strategyAccomplishments:• Launched new mobile website in first six months in position, resulting in a 5.2% improvement in revenue per visitor and 13% increase in average order value• Launched B&N 2017 Holiday Gift Guide (responsive web app), resulting in 41% increase in revenue per visit compared to previous year’s gift guide• Worked with B&N desktop team to ensure successful rollout of B&N website redesign across desktop and mobile websites From November 2016 to August 2018 (1 year 10 months) New York CityProduct Marketer/Manager (Ed Tech) @ W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Role Overview: Hybrid product marketing/management position responsible for launching Norton education technology products Responsibilities:• Launch InQuizitive (online adaptive quizzing), Smartwork5 (STEM online assessment tool) and Norton Ebook Reader, products used by 370,000 learners in high school and higher ed markets• Serve as a product owner on product teams, working with designers and developers to define user stories, prioritize backlog, and perform user acceptance testing on sprint releases • Responsible for product implementation, activation, and satisfaction metrics• Conduct market research to define new product priorities and run testing program of beta productsAccomplishments: • Norton digital sales up 43.77% in fiscal year 2016• Launched InQuizitive, an IMS Global Application Challenge award-winner in two different categories• Created fulfillment process, internal and external training, and strategy for product integration with campus learning management systems, a product feature that has driven over 50,000 units of business From May 2013 to October 2016 (3 years 6 months) Greater New York City AreaMarketing Manager @ W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Role Overview: Marketing position responsible for sales and marketing collateral for a number of Norton print product linesResponsibilties: • Tracked Norton’s biggest sales priorities in anthropology, biology, and economics markets• Created both print and direct marketing (email) campaigns to support national sales efforts• Won new business by presenting Norton textbooks and online products at higher education institutions across the countryAccomplishments: • Successfully launched First Edition Principles of Economics textbook, which to date has generated more than $2.1 million in company revenue in a highly competitive, entrenched market• Achieved 30% increase in sales for How Humans Evolved From May 2011 to May 2013 (2 years 1 month) New YorkSales Representative @ W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Role Overview: Entry-level sales position responsible for sales numbers at 42 accounts in large Texas sales territoryResponsibilities:• Made 10-15 sales calls per day in cold calls, appointments, and presentations.• Managed order fulfillment, customer service, and product implementation for hundreds of individual college instructors using Norton course materials in their college coursesAccomplishments: • Recognized as #1 sales rep in 2010-2011 (73% sales increase, $900,000 territory to $1,600,000)• Recognized in Norton’s President’s Circle (top 15 on bonus plan both years as sales rep) From August 2009 to May 2011 (1 year 10 months)