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

Marleen Bornat

As a freelance data scientist, I help clients with:

• Identifying and shaping data science use cases
• Writing machine learning pipelines
• Evaluating, implementing and deploying machine learning models
• Supporting business and stakeholder collaboration

Freelance Data Scientist

Titans 

As a freelance Data Scientist @ Titans, I support clients within legal to:

• Get meaningful and actionable insights from their data
• Use NLP to extract critical data from documents 
• Automate manual workflows
• Build custom bots

On-demand Data Scientist

DataWrk

DataWrk is a network of senior freelance data scientists.

DataWrk Member - Senior Data Scientist

Positive Thinking Company

As a Data Science consultant at PTC, I built multiple PoCs and products, spanning areas such as natural language AI assistants, predictive maintenance and data-driven financial planning. I worked across many industries: telecoms, transportation, gaming and banking.

I helped my German and international clients to gain insights and generate value from their data by:

• Understanding the business problem end-to-end and turning it into a data science problem
• Guiding the conceptualisation of data science projects, identifying and shaping use cases
• Designing, developing and delivering digital products in an agile and cross-functional manner

👩‍💻 Selected projects

PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE (June 2022 - December 2022)
• Consolidated data sources to improve data quality.
• Wrote ML pipelines to prepare model input and streamlined development with MLflow.
• Developed, trained and evaluated ML models.

MEDICAL VOICE BOT (April 2021 - June 2022)
• Developed a multi-turn voice-based conversational AI (Natural Language Understanding, Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS)) with Rasa and Azure.
• Built, evaluated and deployed Transformer-based NLP pipelines
• Trained, fine-tuned, evaluated and deployed STT and TTS models
• Supported project management with resource allocation and requirements engineering
• Mentored and onboarded other data scientists and developers
• Ran regular product demonstrations for senior client stakeholders

🌱 Next to my projects, I co-lead the ESG group and was responsible for:

• Organising strategy sessions and monthly catch-up calls
• Leading international learning sessions
• Writing blog posts and creating content for the company-wide newsletter

https://positivethinking.tech/de/news-de/csr-de/brown-bag-lunches-fuer-mehr-nachhaltigkeit/
https://positivethinking.tech/news/csr-webinar-understanding-climate-changes-and-finding-avenues-for-action

✨ I also initiated international remote work at Positive Thinking Company.

Data Science Consultant

DEMOS Gesellschaft für E-Partizipation mbH - Agile Tools for Open Societies

I contributed to data-based, participatory and AI-supported urban and spatial planning by:

•Scraped 13,000 spatial planning documents and implemented an SQLite storage database.
•Experimented with embedding models and evaluated a semantic search algorithm.

Intern & Working Student for Data Science

Ace & Tate

• Communicated directly with customers via e-mail, on-website chat, social media and via phone

German Customer Experience Associate (PT)

The ONE Campaign

• Conducted technical research on policy issues and created policy content for the website
• Monitored and attended parliamentary sessions on transparency and education
• Contributed to briefings, updated statistics and provided administrative support

October - December 2017 - Freelance media assistant

• Assisted the German media team by producing daily news summaries on ONE's policy issues

Policy and Advocacy Intern

TERRE DES FEMMES

• Coordinated and supervised projects and organised events (e.g. foundation's anniversary with 140 guests) 
• Drafted lobbying letters and articles and assisted with the daily operations
• Substituted the assistant of the executive director for three months and acted as an intern representative

Intern at the Managing Director's Office

Leiden University College The Hague

• Assisted with the launch of the Research Centre
• Co-organised and created promotional material for academic events
• Managed part of the budget and contributed to the writing of the annual report

Student Assistant of the Research Centre

I’m a Data Scientist with over 4 years of experience executing machine learning (ML) & NLP projects, including AI bots and predictive modelling. I’ve worked for leading German and international clients across sectors like telecoms, banking, gaming, transportation and legal.

As a pro-active and product-oriented professional, I thrive in environments that require strategic thinking and collaboration across business units.👩‍💻 

I am currently working as a freelancer. If you think I could be a match for your project, I would be happy to connect!

Next to my daytime client work, I love researching and writing about how to make the world more just and sustainable.🌱 I share my reflections in my monthly newsletter 'Consciously Curious' - https://marleenbornat.substack.com 💌

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