Leitha Matz's Linkedin Analytics

Balancing business needs and the user experience, I am a data- and hypothesis-driven storyteller with considerable experience in team leadership and the ability to make sense out of quantitative and qualitative data. Fluent in English. Conversational German (C1). With 20 years of experience in product and program management, I am a digital leader and mentor with an ability to ideate, conceptualize, communicate and jump between the tactical and strategic. I excel at creating structure in fluid environments, understanding the big picture and setting up roadmaps that can be executed. In the US, I built a 20-person team and the ecommerce front-end systems (including AI-driven recommendations) for FreshDirect.com (now a $600 MM rev/yr business, acquired in 2020 by Ahold Delhaize N.V.), developed online customer service operations for FedEx and managed communities both online (60k users) and offline (150k users) for LENS Publishing. I also co-founded the "Mind The Gap" Meetup for women's financial betterment, and I've volunteered as a mentor for my local Parkrun and the Grace Academy. I was a startup advisor/judge with the eBay Startup Cup, and a mentor for the Techstars METRO and Target startup accelerator programs. Key Skills: Data-driven business development, business strategy, team leadership, product/process/portfolio management (Certified PMP), FinTech, vendor relationship management, Content Management Systems, budget management, infrastructure development, Agile / Scrum, QA/troubleshooting, UI/UX specifications, customer communications, social media and community engagement, application delivery, process engineering, gap/risk analysis, basic statistics/analytics (Using R and SQL queries), user research, data management, content creation and publishing.