Ian Johnson

Multiple Companies

Selected client work:

Paramount Pictures: (Fractional Product Lead) Designing the software for greenlighting movies.
ChatLabs: (Fractional CPO) 
Tonic Labs: (Fractional Product Lead) Working with leadership at high-growth startups in Fintech, Genomic Breeding, and Recruitment on product strategy and execution. 
Ultra VC: (Validating demand, pricing, and UXR Strategies) Advised 2023 batch of companies on strategies for validating demand, pricing, and execution of user research. 
Titans Legal: (AI Product Strategy) Consulting on Gen AI implementation strategy for major law firms.
Helios: (Product Strategy) Enabling anyone, anywhere, to profit from saving our planet through Solar investment.

Product Management Consultant

On Deck

Founder Fellow

Lasso (Acquired)

A pioneering AI-powered platform designed to redefine the creator marketing space for SaaS marketers. By facilitating the efficient discovery, management, and performance analysis of millions of creator profiles, Lasso enhances marketing strategies with data-driven insights and automates key processes to measure ROI effectively.

Co-Founder and CEO

Flow Commerce (acquired by Global-e)

The leading platform for cross-border ecommerce, enabling SMB brands to go global and technology that powers Shopify's native cross-border ecommerce platform (Shopify Markets Pro). Selected by Shopify through competitive RFP as sole technology provider for native cross-border ecommerce API/capabilities.

Responsible for product strategy that helped scale and grow some of the fastest-growing DTC brands in the world.

Flow is a SaaS platform that enables retailers to sell and expand internationally, providing end-to-end functionality, including localized pricing, marketing and payments, tax and duty calculation, and global logistics. Supported by venture partners, including Bain Capital Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, and Fung Capital.

Principal Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Showtime Analytics

Responsible for the product portfolio of business intelligence, customer, and marketing analytics products for Showtime Analytics and Showtime's joint venture with Alibaba Pictures in China.

Showtime Analytics is a SaaS platform aimed at providing the movie industry with an intelligent software solution that is built to understand, communicate, and optimize relationships with moviegoers. Showtime Analytics is supported by partners including Alibaba Pictures and comscore.

VP of Product Management

Accenture

Consultant at Accenture experienced working with large organizations in the technology & financial services industries. 

Client work included;
- Product Marketing Production lead for EMEA at Google 
- Product lead at global financial institutions 
- Analytics and reporting across ad tech sectors

Consultant @Google

Management Consulting Analyst 

eir Ireland

Programme manager of eir's Customer Experience (CX) programme for eir Technology.

Program Manager

Business Operations Specialist

Product leader specializing in helping B2B SaaS and Consumer companies explore new segments, tap into emerging markets, and scale up existing ones.

Key Clients include;
ChatLabs by Writingmate.ai: (Product Strategy and GTM) Bringing private, secure, and customizable AI models in one place.

Paramount Pictures: (Fractional Product Lead) Designed the software used to greenlight movies.

Tonic Labs: (Fractional Product Lead) Working with leadership at high-growth startups in Fintech, Genomic Breeding, and Recruitment on product strategy and execution. 

Ultra VC: (Validating demand, pricing, and UXR Strategies) Advised 2023 batch of companies on strategies for validating demand, pricing, and execution of user research. 

Helios: (Product Strategy) Enabling anyone, anywhere, to profit from saving our planet through Solar investment. 

Track record of enabling B2B SaaS companies to accelerate their path to product-market fit through hands-on product strategy development, rapid experimentation, and execution. 

Designing processes and systems that enable high-growth teams to leverage market and user research to quickly ship the right solutions to end users.

Leveraging experience spanning pre-seed startups to Fortune 500s, including other collaborations with Andreessen Horowitz and ReFace.

For fractional or speaking engagements, please email contact @ ianjohnson.io

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Founder

Decision Counsel

Responsible for the overall client relationship including creating messaging and positioning, voice and tone, GTM strategy, product roadmaps, and sales enablement aligned to the companies overall vision and direction.

Executive Strategist and GM of Subscriber

Incodeks

Help to formulate and activate Incodek's North American expansion strategy.

Strategic Advisor

Charm

Grief Coach

As one of Grief Coach's Expert Contributors, I'm honored to be part of the team that creates the personalized, thoughtful text messages we deliver to people who are grieving and the courageous friends and family who support them.

Expert Contributor, Grief Coach

JSY Giving

JSY Giving is a granting nonprofit that was formed in loving memory of Jane Yin Bolander to help nonprofits in the Literacy, Women & Minority Entrepreneurship, Anti-Human Trafficking, and Services for Youth sectors tell better stories.

Executive Director

JSY PR & Marketing

A PR, Marketing, and Communications firm that specializes in IoT, Smart Home, and Consumer Medical Device product launch and scaling.

Owner

Lab Sensor Solutions, Inc.

A Healthcare Systems company working to bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to the clinical laboratory to help drive pre-analytical six sigma quality.

Founder and COO

G-Startup Worldwide Silicon Valley 2016 Batch

Finalist G-Startup Worldwide Silicon Valley 2016 Batch.

Ion Torrent by Life Technologies

Responsible for new product introductions, manufacturing support and improvements for Ion Torrent's line of semiconductor sequencing chips.

Product Engineering Manager

Tagent Corporation

Responsible for all technology development for Tagents RFID product line including tags, readers and software. Also responsible for fund raising support, standards development and IP matters.

VP of R&D

B2B2C Growth Strategy & Activation | Author of Ride or Die | The Entrepreneur Ethos Podcast Host

I’d like to be able to tell you that I planned all along to help B2B companies tell better stories but that would be a lie.

Well, not exactly a lie but not the full truth.

I started out as an engineer in Silicon Valley at a time when we were building the “information superhighway.”

Yeah, I’m a Gen-X Silicon Valley “Bro” who thought that “if you build it, they will come.”

That turned out to be a lie and it took me the better part of 20 years to figure out the truth.

Product is democratized. The best story wins.

The transition to B2B Storyteller starts like all good stories do – I met a girl.

Rather a woman who later became my wife and who also died of leukemia at the age of 36.

Yes, it’s as horrible as it sounds.

The reason I now do B2B Marketing is because I had to run her company, JSY PR & Marketing while she was sick.

It turned out that I was pretty good at it. Surprised me (and her) for sure.

So now, I teach people how to tell better stories so they can rise above the noise to build businesses that tell great stories.

Some of the things I have worked on include:

📶 Message & Positioning for complex B2B brands that want to accelerate brand awareness and generate leads in industries like financial services, maritime intelligence, and cybersecurity.

📶 Portfolio Rationalization for several private equity roll-ups to align to a solutions focus rather than a product focus.

🧬 Semiconductor DNA sequencing chips that enabled desktop sequencing of the human genome for <$1,000 and in half a day at Ion Torrent.
I have found that clear, concise, and compelling writing is the cornerstone of a solid strategy.

A brief description of some of my recent books:

📗 Story-Driven B2B Marketing: Grow your business by telling better stories.

📗 Story-Driven Decks: 3x your chances of getting the next meeting by creating a deck that tells a fantastic story

📗 Story-Driven Outreach: 2x or more your email response rates by telling clear, concise, and compelling stories.

📗 The Entrepreneur Ethos: How to build a more ethical, inclusive, and resilient world through entrepreneurship. 

🎤 As the host of The Entrepreneur Ethos Podcast, I enjoy talking to all sorts of entrepreneurs about their journey and what they have found useful that might help others. 

https://theentrepreneurethos.com/

Domains: B2B SaaS | B2B Growth Strategies | Sales Enablement | B2B Storytelling | Smart Devices | Digital Health | Semiconductors | DTC

Happy to connect with like-minded people.

Contact Me

📩 jarie@getstorydriven.com
🌐 https://getstorydriven.com

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