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    Dean L. Young

    Dean L. Young

    Enterprise SaaS product leader with consumer and IoT experience. I excel at the intersection of business, sales, engineering, design, and customer success.

    Senior Product Manager San Francisco Stanford University '11
    deanlyoung.com
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    Experience
    Awair
    Awair
    Head of Product (Director of Product Management) 2017 - 2022 (about 5 years)
    Indoor air quality sensor network connecting businesses and consumers through sharing their air

    - Member of leadership team driving company direction and strategic... more business decisions, including major partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and team building
    - Hired and led a team of 5 product managers and 4 designers, and prioritized work for 20 engineers
    - Launched 6 flagship hardware devices, over 50 monthly firmware updates, 4 mobile and web applications, developer APIs, and 5 software integrations
    - Managed customer relationships with key enterprise accounts, directly collecting product requirements from over 2000 business and enterprise accounts, and fostering relationships with influencers that directly increased our sales 10x over other channels within 6 months
    - Wrote and managed dozens of PRDs for hardware, firmware, and software products and features
    - Worked closely with designers, engineers, customer success, marketers, and operations to define, design, develop, ship, and support products
    - Designed processes and collaboration across multiple teams, continents, and languages (US, South Korea, Europe)
    Founder
     
    Employee
    Figure Eight, WePay, Self Employed, Awair, Project Spark, Cisco
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    Projects
    Raspberry Pi Weather Station
    Temperature, Pressure, Humidity, UV Index, CO2 Concentration
    Caps 4 Charity
    Heroes donate hats for auctions. Proceeds go to charity.
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    Managed $300M ARR driving $1B+ product roadmap.
    Grew an app to 1M+ downloads.
    2x StartX cohort

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Mediation Negotiation Product Management Project Management Product Marketing Grafana Google Cloud Platform Figma Google Workspace IoT Jira SQL
    Locations
    San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area
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