Oliver G Young

I manage a team of 8 product managers, collectively responsible for the Sonos "core experience." Our group represents 120+ developers, designers, and product managers building out the daily experience of using Sonos -- setup, the Sonos app, Google and Alexa voice control, hardware interactions, and all of our third party content and control integrations.

Collie was a small side projected aiming to connect individuals with neighbors to find and share durable goods -- like tools, yard equipment, kitchen gadgets, and sports gear -- through a dedicated app.

I advised the Acenna team on product management, product strategy, and business strategy, helping the small team focus and execute their product vision.

I worked as a Director of Product Management for LastPass at LogMeIn. I lead a small team of product managers working with ~50 engineers. We were responsible for the LastPass end user experience, across both mobile and desktop.

I served as Sr Product Manager at Twitter for a team of 15 engineers, 3 designers, 3 researchers, and 1 product marketer, spread over Boston, London, and San Francisco. We built Twitter’s TV, Sports, and topical features. This includes NBA, BPL, and TV timelines on iOS, Android, and Web. Collectively these features are used by millions of people each day. Prior,I was the lead product manager for four teams of engineers. My teams conceived of and built our TV and Movie Ad Targeting products which have generated hundreds of millions in revenue for the company. We were responsible for the launch of Twitter’s in house tv analytics platform, tvanalytics.twitter.com, used by hundreds of TV and Marketing executives around the world. And we were tasked with building and growing Semantic Core, Twitter’s content classification system, which annotates 500 million tweets a day by topic in real-time, powering experiences both on platform and off, such as our Comcast, Xbox, Liberty Global, and other partner integrations. As part of my role at Twitter I have served as the co-lead for Twitter’s TV efforts overall, and have been active in Twitter’s global TV measurement strategies and partnerships.

Served as the Sr. Product Manager responsible for Bluefin Labs' family of offerings for TV networks. I worked closely with both customers -- such as NBC, FOX, Turner, ESPN, and CBS -- and Bluefin's engineering team. As part of this role I was also responsible for customer support and satisfaction, managing a dedicated account management and support specialist. As the product manager for Bluefin's Media client offerings I worked closely with the Bluefin engineering team to overhaul Bluefin Signals, our flagship product, added net new data sets, and launched new features.

- Served as the primary product manager responsible for planning, evangelizing, and building the Jive Apps Market — the industry’s first Software-as-a-Service social business application marketplace — from inception to general availability. - Organized and directed a team of 10 engineers, product designers, user interface experts, and quality assurance specialists; served as Product Owner and ScrumMaster. - Built product roadmap, wrote requirements, developed user personas, prioritized features and bugs, demoed product, gathered customer requirements and handled customer objections; provided both inbound and outbound product management leadership for the Jive Apps Market. - Worked closely with the Jive Finance Department to integrate the Jive Apps Market with Salesforce.com, Zuora, and NetSuite; designed and built the Jive Apps Market payment process. - Launched the Jive For Office product; worked with an integration team based in both Portland, OR, and Israel; successfully designed the integration and overhauled the user interface. - Managed Jive Express, Jive’s first Software-as-a-Service offering; grew monthly recurring revenue more than 12x; grew customer base more than 8x. - Worked with the broader Product Management team to set overall corporate product strategy, respond to competitive threats, and grow the business; worked to move Jive toward agile software development and Software-as-a-Service.

As a Senior Analyst I focused on B2B social media marketing and social technology product strategy. This coverage area included social media marketing tools -- such as blogs, social networks, and Twitter -- and Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and productivity tools -- such as Wikis, collaboration suites, and Microsoft SharePoint. My responsibilities included: - Writing analytical, prescriptive research - Delivering custom consulting and advisory services to Fortune 500 firms - Crafting go-to-market strategies and social media marketing programs for Forrester clients - Working closely with Forrester's sales force to scope and sell consulting engagements

- Managed Forrester’s Business Data Services product; responsible for survey creation and fielding, data cleansing, product delivery, customer service, vendor contract negotiation; helped set product strategy; conducted more than 10,000 annual survey completes. - Helped grow Forrester Business Data Services product from $720,000 to $1.2 million in annual revenue. - Conducted primary research and created content for original reports on trends in business technology adoption, technology supplier operations, and vertical industry sales strategies. - Developed a unique, proprietary research methodology measuring the health of US tech sector: The Forrester/ITAA US Tech Sector Index.

- Supported a team of up to 13 analysts with report writing and editing; managed quantitative data collection, writing and conducting surveys. - Performed quantitative and qualitative analysis for client engagements. - Managed the workloads of a team of research associates, ensuring project quality and on-time delivery.