evenito AG

Senior Product Manager

business-monitor.ch

Revamping business-monitor.ch's entire website (positioning, messaging, copy, design) to improve clarity and increase conversions of free visitors into paying customers.

Interim Product Marketer

HuggyStudio

Supporting the team in product discovery, product management and go-to-market strategy.

Interim Product Manager (EIR)

Sparkademy

📍 The Start
In May 2020 I joined Sparkademy as the team's first product person, and first full-time employee. The team consisted of our founder, a part-time back end engineer and a couple of interns. 

🔥 The Problem
Our bootstrapped startup had signed its first enterprise client, and our product was still mostly manual processes behind the scenes, strapped to a simple landing page UI. We were sending users to other course websites instead of providing our own courses (!). We had to quickly (a) professionalise our offer, (b) deliver a better experience to our users and (c) make our offer more scalable in terms of internal processes. Keeping our first enterprise client depended on it.

🏅 Achievements
As a product manager my impact can best be measured by the impact our team of amazing engineers and designers had on our users, clients, and our business. 

👥 Team achievements
(1) We grew user NPS from -15 (2020) to a 60-80 range (2022). Contributions came from our amazing content creation team, and our product team who delivered new UX and amazing features. 
(2) Contributed to high client satisfaction and retention by addressing user issues within days.

👤 Individual achievements
(1) Focus: Helped shape the company vision and mission, and defined product vision and strategy in collaboration with our entire team. Instituted a goal-driven company culture by implementing OKR.
(2) Culture: Transformed the product culture from doing one-off discovery sprints to continuous discovery leading to at least 1 user interview / week. 
(3) Team: Team happiness and productivity was high throughout my tenure, according to quarterly 'team health checks'.

📝 Other Roles (official & in-official)
(1) Data Protection Officer: Responsible for setting up state of the art GDPR processes and tools
(2) Operations: Leading OKR initiative, planned and executed quarterly and yearly OKR sessions

Product Manager

Company Factory

User discovery and go-to-market projects for enterprise clients.

Business Analyst

Wayste

Zero-waste eCommerce delivering groceries in reusable containers. Achieved first revenues within 3 months.

Co-Founder

Helvetia Versicherungen Schweiz

📍 The Start
I joined the team as the third Manager Innovation, after completing my Masters in Business Innovation at the University of St. Gallen (HSG).

🔥 The Problem
The Incubation department was the first of its kind in the company, and needed to show success quickly. I joined the first projects mitipi.com and Flink (Digital Insurance) to solve that challenge with our teams.

🏅 Achievements
(1) Helped raise 7-figures after just 6 months for one venture by validating market size, user needs, and building a pitch together with the team lead.
(2) Helped sell the first ever monthly insurance subscription online by co-designing the entire Flink (Digital Insurance) UX and managing product development with a remote team in Serbia.
(3) Received overwhelmingly positive user reviews on social media for an insurance experience that (at the time) was a first of its kind.

📝 My roles and duties
(1) Joint responsibility for the implementation of the functional strategy Innovation 
(2) Collaboration in / management of (digital) innovation projects and business model innovations from idea to market launch
(3) Concrete application of innovation methods (e.g. Business Model Navigator, Design Thinking, Lean Start-Up, Growth Hacking) in various innovation projects
(4) Support for projects promoting a culture of innovation in Helvetia
(5) Conducting research around market changes and trends
(6) Collaboration with start-ups promoting Helvetia's digital transformation and the implementation of novel business models
(7) Collaboration in digital innovation projects in fleet management

Manager Innovation

Flink

📍 The Start
Flink was a corporate startup at Helvetia Insurances. I joined the project lead 6 months in as the head or product, leading 3 engineers and a UX designer in Serbia.

🔥 The Problem
The team had gotten an agency to build their MVP. This collaboration was costing us too much, so we decided to rebuild the team and our product with the learnings we had gathered so far. We were expected to show traction within 6 months, or the project could be killed. 

🏅 Achievements
(1) Complete user experience redesign for the website and web application, leading to positive customer feedback and growth through increased referrals among customers.
(2) Helped sell the first ever monthly insurance subscription online by co-designing the entire Flink (Digital Insurance) UX and managing product development with a remote team in Serbia.
(3) Received overwhelmingly positive user reviews on social media for an insurance experience that (at the time) was a first of its kind.

📝 My roles and duties
(1) Chief Product Officer (CPO) for the corporate startup
(2) Support of the start-up CEO in the strategic and operational management duties
(3) Hiring of new team members
(4) Product design and user research
(5) Customer development

Junior Product Manager

Product Manager and NoCode Builder

I share my journey as a product manager, hoping to help you and your team build better products. After you click "Follow" you might see the following pop up in your feed:

// Recommendations of my favorite product podcast episode from last week
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// Opinions on products I see in the market, what I like, and what I would do differently
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// Behind the scenes content from building my own SaaS product on the side

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I hope to see you in the comments 😉

Daniel Kunz 🍨

Hire In Reverse

In a transforming global landscape, traditional hiring methods are inadequate.

The key to success lies in valuing and understanding people, nurturing a cohesive team culture, and adopting comprehensive, transparent interview practices that prioritize human attributes alongside skills. 

This shift is imperative to attract, retain, and satisfy modern candidates, as ignoring these human factors leads to inefficiencies, dissatisfaction, and mistrust, ultimately requiring a new strategic approach to hiring. 

Hire In Reverse offers solutions that encompass targeted candidate searches and proactive pipeline development, addressing the evolving demands of effective team building.

Contact: jonathan@hireinreverse.com

Hiring Strategist | Founder | Technical Leadership Recruiter - Software Industry

Stealth

Work with founders to assemble initial team following seed funding.  Project Complete.

Fractional Head of Talent

Investment Portfolio

Assembled a small group of investors to purchase, renovate and remarket houses during high growth period in Austin, Texas

Diversion – Rehab and Renovation 

Confidential (In stealth mode)

Staff at Will - Search Consultancy

- Provided onsite and off site contract and retained recruiting services.
- Served in a variety of capacities within high-growth VC funded start-ups; staffing manager, outbound sourcing recruiter, high-volume recruiter
- Worked closely with hiring managers to define open roles, advertise, screen, interview and manage cycle through onboarding
- Saved hiring managers untold hours by providing key resources for time-sensitive hires
-Staffing experience at all levels from entry to c-staff, all departments; spanning industries, languages and international locals; Asia, Europe

Contract Technical Recruiter | Staffing Manager

Misc 

Technical Recruiter

US Army

Network Installation & Support & Administration

11 WORDS
I help leaders find the hiring equivalent to product-market-fit.

GAME CHANGED
Remember when hiring was annoying, but doable?  Post, slog, wrong fits, frustration. Need more pipe, throw money at it.

Things are changing.  Workforce is different.  Old ways don’t work. Impossibly, hiring seems even more competitive.

Deep down, we’re not even sure our good hires are ok, ‘cause many just don’t make.

It's not the pipeline, nor your interview technique. It's how you THINK about hiring, people and culture.

It's easy to mindlessly slip into treating people more like hardware. But, selecting based on skills alone is destroying our culture, and leaving us with skilled people who don’t fit. 

THE NEW STRATEGY
Hire the right people by giving them meaningful work, learning, growth and impact.  It requires less friction; and creates a team culture that fosters strong bonds, based on trust and respect.

Reality: HR initiatives that fabricate respect and pretend to be unbiased, have the opposite effect.

Don't see it? It's ok. They do. It's your blind spot.

The problem is hiring process that fails to attract, and can’t dependably assess fit.

This feeling of disrespect causes good candidates to opt-out early, even some despite the fact they need a job.  

RULES DON’T DEFY LOGIC
Don’t think a list of skills will attract today’s workforce. And unlike in the past, they won’t stay if the role’s not a fit. 

The key is to understand the human factors at play.

And interview candidates from a from a full 360° vantagepoint. 

LEVERAGE HUMAN NATURE

There’s little chance of getting good results with incomplete data.  

Hiring that builds successful teams requires “two” not “one” well informed decision.

Interviews that aren’t transparent, intentionally withholding details because I think I can “sell them” into the job, is a recipe for recruiting-caused-problems. 

Strategy backfire!

It’s time to consider what ‘you’re not saying’, is communicating.  Because see it or not, the message is clear! 


CONSULTANCY -- NOT AGENCY
Dedicated Search - is done-for-you, full slate of ‘qualified’ candidates and assessment optimization.

Personal Pipeline Alchemy - is a top secret, done-with-you, service where we position you to hire-at-will for future positions with a pre-built passive pipeline. [It’s not what you think, it’s better.]

MY EXPERIENCE
- Top agency recruiter; support hyper growth startups
- Built numerous VC startups, as insider; variety TA roles 
- 26 years helping software leaders build cohesive teams

512-560-6337

Jonathan<at>hireinreverse.com

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