Product Manager Marketing

Scott Garber Austin, Texas, United States

*********@*****.*** 512-***-****

linkedin.com/in/garbers

Summary

Experienced, yet entrepreneurial, Product, and UX/UI professional. Background in SaaS, Fintech, AI/ML, and Music.

** Created and ran a product for iTunes worldwide with revenue of 100mil at 84% margin

** SaaS Fintech product from zero (at Apple/iTunes) that now brings in 6 billion a year in revenue.

**18 years of product experience.

** 8 years Human Centered Design.

** 10 years supervisory experience. ICs to 50 person teams

** 10 years of general Strategy

** 8 years of UX/UI work and product strategy.

** 8 years at SXSWi on the Advisory Board for programming - 6 years as Judge of the Innovation Awards.

** Vision and Strategy focused.

** OKR/KPI aware and Tech and Design sensitive.

** Excellent team builder and I have access to many talented people in the product world.

Presented on a CPO panel with the subject of scalability https://summit.productledalliance.com/talks/scaling-product-within-an-organisation/

Experience

Senior Product Person

Soul Machines

Aug 2021 - Present (5 months +)

Ran the Autonomous animation (AA) Product for SMC.

Ran the upgrade roll out of Human OS 2.2

Organized and cleared the backlog of AA.

Created the priority action scale and relevance for Customer issues as it relates to business need

Principal

Pivotal Sandbox, LLC

Feb 2017 - Present (4 years 11 month+)

UX and UI concern that works with Star ups to established companies

All things UX and UI

Specialty UX research

Founder

Argo Lake

Jan 2016 - Present (6 years +)

Advisory to Startups (Product and UX/UI)

Jetty.se

Trackdmusic.com

Cooking Planit

Judge Innovation Awards

SXSW

Jul 2016 - Present (5 years 6 months +)

Sort through 100s of applications for the Innovation awards

In person judge and award presenter

Member Of The Board Of Advisors Interactive

SXSW Aug 2013 - Present (8 years 5 months +)

Sort 100s of applications for content panels for SXSWi

Curated several panels (“Technology and Me Too” - 2018)

Vega Tech, Limited

Aug 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 1 month)

Blockchain solution in the Mortgage Industry. All other info is NDA

Chief Product Officer

Connectx.app

Feb 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 7 months)

Designed and created the Product vision for ConnectX

Designed and created the pitch deck that garnered funding

Chief Product officer in charge of developing the overall team.

Board of Directors - Past Vice President

Austin Music Foundation

Jan 2010 - Feb 2020 (10 years 2 months)

Executive Committee for Non-Profit. 501(c)(3) - Various program initiatives.

Volunteer work in the community of music in Austin Texas

AMF served over 10,000 clients during my tenure

Vice President, Product and Marketing

QuickGifts

Feb 2015 - Dec 2015 (11 months)

Created Backlog of product pipeline

Created pipeline of future product enhancements

Brought Agile thinking to a small dev team.

Strategic Counsel

Influence Opinions

Jan 2012 - Jan 2015 (3 years 1 month)

Advised on technology for Clients of IO

Formulated the the Digital Advance product to understand what was happening in Texas Politics

Designed product parameters for Twitter and Facebook posts relating to Texas Politics

Channel Marketing Manager

Apple

Aug 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 5 months)

Channel Strategy and Product Management in EMEA - based in London

Managed 4 teams (50 contractors) across Europe to understand the marketplace

Raised revenue 18%

Managed Vendor relations with the POS vendors and partners

Managed to get a 1 mil investment from our partners to advance Marketing

International Product Manager

Apple

Jul 2008 - Aug 2010 (2 years 2 months)

Lead key product transitions and launches in Worldwide markets.

SaaS Fintech product from zero (at Apple/iTunes) that now brings in 6 billion a year in revenue.

Product Manager

Apple

2005 - Jul 2008 (3 years 7 months)

Original Product Manager iTunes gift cards. 0 to 6bil during my tenure.

Global Volume Song Product Manager

Apple

Nov 2004 - Dec 2005 (1 year 2 months)

Responsible for development and infrastructure of Worldwide Volume Business.

Created and ran a product for iTunes worldwide with revenue of 100mil at 84% margin

Apple Direct Coach

Apple

Jan 2000 - Nov 2004 (4 years 11 months)

Created a product that saved 12 mil a year in lost sales

Coached agents forward to retain the best and upgrade those that needed help.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

Film/Video and Photographic Arts

Skills

Social Media -Digital Media - Digital Marketing - Product Marketing - Online Advertising – Entrepreneurship - Marketing Communications - Product Management – Aha

Marketing - Marketing Strategy -AI/ML – Agile methodologies - Scrum

Jira – Confluence – SaaS – PaaS - User Experience (UX)- User Interface (UI)-APIs

AWS - Business Requirements – SDLC -Sketch – Figma - Requirements Gathering - Project management - Project management software - User Research – Leadership – Usability - E-commerce – Leadership - Usability - User research - E-commerce - Product development

iOS - Financial services Employee evaluations Information architecture Human Centered Design thinking - UI design - Web design - Graphic design - Business analysis - Customer relationship management - SW Release management – Unity – Unreal - Financial services - Presentation skills - IoT – Waterfall - Test Cases -Vendor Management.

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