Jenny Wood

Penguin Random House

Author of "Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It", a business non-fiction book about how to chase what you want. And achieve it!

Author

Harvard Business Review

Write leadership, teamwork, and career pieces for Harvard Business Review.

Writer

Google

Lead large team across North and South America that helps F500 companies implement, optimize, and troubleshoot media campaigns.

Director, Americas Media Operations, Technical Service Managers

Founder of one of Google's largest and fastest-growing Career Development initiative in 25 years. We have 97% positive feedback with tens of thousands of people participating in the program. 

Our goal is to help Googlers increase their influence and impact in their current role and/or land their next role at Google. Be bold, be curious, be you.

Founder, Google's Own Your Career Program

Lead team of 25 full-time Googlers across 14 global cities to provide outstanding customer service on mobile apps troubleshooting issues. Influence stakeholders to make products easier to sell and improve sales teams' ability to sell them. Achieve metrics like turnaround time and customer satisfaction scores. Build awesome team culture and mentor women and other underrepresented groups. Also accountable for 18 offshore vendors.

Head of Global Customer Care, Mobile Apps

Head of Regional Customer Care, US West Coast

Lead 8-person business analyst team for Telecom industry in Google's sales & marketing organization. Advise senior executives at Fortune 500 companies on consumer and market data, insights, marketing strategy, and digital measurement & attribution. Responsibilities across brand and performance marketing, including omni-channel impact, customer segmentation, and brand-building.

Focus on D&I initiatives including equity, promotion diversity, and community inclusion.

Head of Analytics & Insights, Telecom Industry

Strategy and Operations Manager

Senior Analytical Lead

Account Strategist

Lambda Educational Technologies

Quality Assurance Manager

Harvard Business School

Research Associate

Author. Speaker. Founder, Google’s Own Your Career Program. Google Executive, America's Media Operations.

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18 years ago, I was an anxious, entry-level employee at Google. 

Then I chased my future-husband off the subway and gave him my number.

That moment made me realize the life I want won’t just happen to me. 

I have to chase it. And so do you! 

That mentality led me to become an executive at Google running a large operations team that helps drive tens of billions in revenue a year. I also founded Own Your Career, a large career development initiative at Google with tens of thousands of people benefitting.

After climbing the ranks from entry-level to executive, I realize something. What if the traits you need to get ahead are the exact opposite of what you’ve been told? To be successful you need to be:

Weird
Selfish
Shameless
Obsessed
Nosy
Manipulative
Brutal
Reckless
Bossy

And that takes courage. Wild amounts of it.

So I wrote a book! It’s called, WILD COURAGE: Go After What You Want and Get It, and it became an instant New York Times bestseller. 😮

I’m so excited for you to order it at itsjennywood.com/book and be more bold, persuasive, and successful. 

Follow me for advice to achieve your goals and get what you want. Unapologetically. 

The opinions I state on LinkedIn and other public forums are my own, not those of any past or present company.

Drives strategic decision-making and operational efficiency for marketing initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Serves as a trusted advisor, providing insights and clarity to leadership. Key contributor to the development and execution of annual marketing plans, ensuring alignment and smooth process flow.

Strategy & Operations Lead, Marketing - SSA

Unlocking the power of Android for Sub-Saharan Africa. My role as an Android PMM at Google centers on expanding Android's impact and ensuring our consumer apps become a transformative force in the region.

Product Marketing Manager - Android

1. Developed marketing plans for Google Search & Gemini in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and executing campaigns to drive its adoption and usage
2. Defined and executed GMT strategies and organizational coordination for feature/product launches
3. Applied quantitative methods, models and research to help better understand consumer behavior and provide feedback into the product and strategic development cycle
4. Developed messaging, collateral, events and business strategies aimed at acquiring users and increasing our engagement with them

Product Marketing Manager, Search and Gemini, Sub-Saharan Africa

Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC

I was charged with;
- Setting direction for the Product Management of Fixed & Mobile Internet, Content and PostPay Products and Services by defining the overall strategy, designing and developing insightful segment-led propositions and marketing strategies to drive internet and content adoption in conjunction with key stakeholders. 
- Setting up and managing the Products life cycle and general commercial aspects to ensure continuous product performance on profitability, NPS and Brand fit.

Product Lead - Internet, Content and Postpay Services

Safaricom PLC

- Developed, Managed and Delivered Mobile internet propositions for different consumer segments
- Delivered Data P&L for High Value customers
- Developed and owned the Mobile internet innovation funnels and Defining Road-map for New Products

Product Management Chapter Lead, Mobile Data Tribe

- Designed and developed segment-led propositions and marketing strategy that increased mobile data revenues by 12.1% in FY 2020 & 11.5% in FY 2021
- Managed existing mobile data products life cycle and general commercial aspects to ensure continuous product performance on profitability, NPS and brand fit
- Successfully managed product strategy & vision, go-to-market strategy and design discussions.
- Launched new products and features that helped grow the mobile data users (>100MB) by 23.7% in FY 2020 & 19.6% in FY 2021
- Earned 2 awards with the Marketing Society of Kenya (MSK) for two YouTube campaigns (Eliud INEOS 159 and Jionee YouTube na 10bob campaigns)

Product Manager - Mobile Internet and Content

- Developed, Managed and Delivered Voice Propositions, Advanced Credit (Okoa Jahazi) for Assigned consumer Segment and CVM Platform known as Tunukiwa Engine
- Delivered Voice, Platforms and Services P&L for Assigned Segment.
- Developed and owned the Voice Products innovation funnel and New Product Introductions Roadmap and deliver on the adoption and monetization targets.

Product Manager - Voice, Platforms and Services

Airtel Kenya

Achieved the desired revenue from the customer base by designing and developing customized programs that created customer stickiness resulting in reduced churn & higher usage

Product Manager - Internet & VAS (Value Added Services)

- Achieved Data Annual Operating Plan Targets
- Ensured optimal Data Experience in the Market
- Increased Airtel's data penetration & data usage across different consumer segments
- Maximized revenues and volumes per site
- Successful managed the full Product Lifecycle for all propositions

Product Manager (Internet Revenue & Experience)

- Provided actionable insight to Product Managers and other Business Stakeholders that led to successful launch of key propositions like "Shikisha Stori na 5X" that helped grow Active Customer base
- Recommended solutions (unlimiNET data bundles) for creating more revenue based on insights from various data sources
- Successfully re-segmented the entire Airtel Kenya Subscriber base into various insight-led consumer segments
- Successfully helped in rolling out a new Business Intelligence System (IBM Cognos) that managed to centralized all BI reports

Data Scientist

- Managed and coordinated Airtel's Value Added Service Providers
- Handled various Consumer ATL/BTL Promotions for customer acquisition and revenue growth
- Coordinated the rollout Airtel’s Major VAS products i.e. Hello Tunes (RBT), Classifieds, Airtel Ngoma and Kopa Internet

Associate Product Manager - Value Added Services (VAS) & Partner Management

Kenswitch

Systems Support Engineer

Kenya Power

Information Technology Support Specialist

A seasoned Product & Commercial Leader with 12+ years of experience driving innovation and launching successful consumer products across software, telecoms, and FinTech industries. Proven expertise in the full product lifecycle, from ideation to market impact. 

Currently, I wear two hats at Google:
>> As Product Marketing Manager, Android : I'm spearheading strategies to expand Android's reach and ignite adoption of our transformative consumer apps across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
>> As Strategy & Operations Lead for SSA Marketing (20%): I collaborate with country leaders to set strategic marketing priorities, develop annual plans, and drive key operational initiatives across the region.

Deeply passionate about democratizing internet access and harnessing the power of AI to drive positive change in Africa.

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