Vancouver, BC

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Kamil SSzzyybbaallsskkii twitter.com/KamilSzybalski

Product & Growth Manager

I'm an entrepreneur and seasoned product manager. I have over 10 years of experience in both consumer and enterprise technology, product development, marketing and data driven growth management. I have successfully helped companies, including my own, move from concept to scale. I bring real passion and experience, genuine creativity and a consistent approach. I passionately care about creating product value that focuses on outcomes, solves real customer problems and leverages data-driven growth. I thrive on working in the unknown and am constantly looking to simplify and deliver new innovative experiences. I believe in trade-offs and hold that focus means saying no. I advocate that roadmaps are evidence of strategy and not lists of features. July 2018 - Current

September 2018 - July 2018

May 2016 - September 2018

Senior Product Manager, Product Experience

Cisco Cloud Security

My objective is to operationalize a product growth function and define our strategy for growth and user expansion across the customer lifecycle. I am responsible for owning, defining and leading the growth strategy for Cisco cloud security, the enterprise SaaS platform currently protecting over 25 millions users daily.

Together with various functional stakeholders, we are determining the highest impact variables and levers to unlock growth and optimize the path to product value for both prospects and customers. Our goal is to make data-informed decisions that benefit users with clean, streamlined experiences. Ultimately, I am responsible for identifying, prioritizing and managing the execution of product changes that enhance the Cisco Umbrella experience, and drive QoQ revenue growth. A large part of this involves working across our whole product organization to implement a data-driven, customer value focused, approach to product development.

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Cisco Cloud Security

I was part of a new business group within Cisco cloud security - infrastructure engineering - tasked with defining how Cisco builds, operates and scales products on a global cloud infrastructure and security platform.

Our objective was to build and scale a suite of products, tools and services that would enhance the Cisco developer experience and shape the future in cloud architecture and application development. As Cisco mobilizes to enable the growth of its SaaS business, so must internal tools, services, operations and process. Our team was tasked with helping to define the strategy, prioritize service development and bring that transformation to market, internally within Cisco. Lead Product Manager

Eventbase

Eventbase is the world's most trusted event technology platform. I joined Eventbase to establish and scale the product organization, product development practice and create an Enterprise SaaS strategy to pivot the existing services business and create new revenue streams. Summary

Work experience

May 2015 - Dec 2015

Jun 2012 - Aug 2015

Aug 2014 - May 2015

Aug 2012 - Aug 2014

Jul 2011 - Mar 2012

As the first product hire, I established and led the product and UX practices and owned the overall product vision, strategy and roadmap across multiple enterprise product lines. My role evolved from being hands-on with every aspect of product strategy and development, to joining the leadership team and ultimately building and managing the product and UX teams.

The products we brought to market are loved today by some of the largest fortune 500, including IBM, Cisco, SAP, Microsoft, Adobe, CES, RSA and more.

VP Growth

Shelfie (Acquired by Kobo)

Shelfie allowed our users to take a photo of their bookshelf and get the ebook version of their print books for free or at a deep discount. Shelfie also allowed users to easily create a digital inventory of your books and instantly discover bookshelves to dig up their next reads. Shelfie was available on iOS and Android. By pivoting the existing product strategy, I was responsible for increasing overall retention and growth metrics. I worked with the team, our partners and customers to recast a product roadmap that focused on solving real customer problems. This included a full rebrand, development of new product solutions and generally clarifying our market opportunity.

Founder

Dudepins (Acquired)

I founded Dudepins as an experimental side project in 2012. Fortunately the project scaled and turned into a side business with a small team of 7. As Founder, I wore many hats, from accountant, HR and legal to marketing, affiliate partnerships, product and business development. Some of our most notable accomplishments included: Being featured in over 40 publications around the World, appearing on CBC's Dragons' Den in front of two million people with an offer from the Dragons, growing and managing a team of 7, consistently scaling MoM, both in terms of revenue and overall growth metrics.

Dudepins was an evening side project that we successfully scaled into an operating business. Product Manager, Growth

Hootsuite Labs

Hootsuite Labs was a small renegade force (10 people) who were empowered to do things outside of the core business, we were focused on creating the next generation of social media technologies. With origins as a

‘startup within a startup’, Labs explored emerging digital technologies and engaged with Hootsuite’s early adopters and select customers to shape the future of social media and digital marketing. Although wearing many hats, my core responsibilities included: Working with customers and internal stakeholders (product, csm, m&a, sales) to scope market opportunities and deliver priorities to leadership. Delivering 3 new products to our customers. Working with my engineering team from ideation through to GTM and iterative release.

Product Marketing Manager

Encore Business Solutions

Encore is the largest mid-size Microsoft ERP partner in Canada selling B2B software with deal sizes ranging from 50k to 5mm+.

My core responsibilities included: Management of all marketing activities (both online and offline), establishing and scaling the first digital strategy, lead acquisition and pipeline management, people management, contributing to establish Encore as the thought-leader in the Canadian ERP marketplace. Director of Business Development

Offeron Media Corp (Acquihire)

Created with

Sep 2010 - Jul 2011

Offeron was the acquirer of my business, Snaggies. My focus at Offeron was to scale business operations across Eastern and Central Canada. Ultimately the company shut down and I was offered an opportunity to move to British Columbia to work on new ideas with the core Offeron team. My core responsibilities included: Managing a ground sales team of fifteen, ownership of all marketing and growth strategies across Canada as well as product strategy. Founder

Snaggies (Acquired)

Snaggies was a daily deal marketplace I cofounded after finishing University. We provided a cost effective marketing solution for the merchant, while providing a plethora of savings opportunities to the consumer market. My partner and I managed to scale the business to six figure revenues within six months of operations. We were successfully acquired by Offeron Media Corp within our first year. Honors BA, Political Science & Philosophy Sep 2005 - May 2009 McMaster University

I successfully completed a combined major in Political Science and Philosophy. My original intention was to attend Law School at the University of Toronto, fortunately I instead chose an entrepreneurial path in technology.

Education

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