Zume
Director, Product Management
- Reporting directly to SVP of Product, Program, and Customer Success, partnered with business units across Zume to co-lead all aspects of business and product strategy.
-... more Closely collaborated with Zume leadership to guide Engineering, Product, and Design’s growth from ~25 to 240+ (3 US, 1 Ukraine locations), as Zume grew from ~60 to 600+ in less than 2 years.
- Grew/managed Product from 1 to 16 members comprising Group PMs (people managers), Sr. PMs, and PMs with experiences in engineering, finance, consulting, data science, etc at startups and large organizations (Apple, Amazon, Google, etc) with academic backgrounds in STEM, business, humanities, etc, at top-tier institutions (Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc); supported and mentored members within and beyond Product to help frame and achieve their organizational and professional goals.
- Founded and owned at portfolio level, all of Zume’s product lines – verticals: food production/fulfillment (by mobile/non-mobile cloud kitchens) PaaS, retail e-commerce two-sided marketplace platform; horizontals: platform engineering, data science and engineering, manufacturing; and R&D.
- Co-conceptualized launches of several industry-firsts (mobile food production/fulfillment platform as a service, pizza delivery powered by elastic fleet of autonomous robots, etc) in a highly regulated environment; co-authored/guided authoring of research/opportunity/strategy papers exploring investment opportunities.
- Instituted and operationalized rigorous approach to building products by co-designing several thought/execution frameworks; collaborated with Zume leadership to build working protocols/practices fostering autonomy, accountability, transparency, and efficiency across organizational layers – enabling rapid experimentation and learning from launching several product/operational models in contexts ranging from R&D/pre-product-market fit to mission-critical with live customers.
-... more Closely collaborated with Zume leadership to guide Engineering, Product, and Design’s growth from ~25 to 240+ (3 US, 1 Ukraine locations), as Zume grew from ~60 to 600+ in less than 2 years.
- Grew/managed Product from 1 to 16 members comprising Group PMs (people managers), Sr. PMs, and PMs with experiences in engineering, finance, consulting, data science, etc at startups and large organizations (Apple, Amazon, Google, etc) with academic backgrounds in STEM, business, humanities, etc, at top-tier institutions (Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc); supported and mentored members within and beyond Product to help frame and achieve their organizational and professional goals.
- Founded and owned at portfolio level, all of Zume’s product lines – verticals: food production/fulfillment (by mobile/non-mobile cloud kitchens) PaaS, retail e-commerce two-sided marketplace platform; horizontals: platform engineering, data science and engineering, manufacturing; and R&D.
- Co-conceptualized launches of several industry-firsts (mobile food production/fulfillment platform as a service, pizza delivery powered by elastic fleet of autonomous robots, etc) in a highly regulated environment; co-authored/guided authoring of research/opportunity/strategy papers exploring investment opportunities.
- Instituted and operationalized rigorous approach to building products by co-designing several thought/execution frameworks; collaborated with Zume leadership to build working protocols/practices fostering autonomy, accountability, transparency, and efficiency across organizational layers – enabling rapid experimentation and learning from launching several product/operational models in contexts ranging from R&D/pre-product-market fit to mission-critical with live customers.
