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

Writingmate

Fellowship

Staff Software Engineer

Notably

The intelligence platform your qualitative data deserves.

Advisor

Gainy

A mobile app that helps you identify the right stock or cryptocurrency depends on your current portfolio, personal goals, and fundamental analysis. Digestible, adjustable, and on the go.

While trading became easy for tens of millions of retail investors with Robinhood, choosing the right balanced portfolio is rocket science for most. With our mobile app, anyone will be able to set goals and pick up the right investments.

New stock market analysis software is built for professionals in mind: complicated user interfaces with hundreds of parameters that only financial experts can understand. 

Gainy will allow retail investors to make more confident investment decisions by bringing only needed metrics and information in a simplified view that is personalized to our user’s profile and goals. Think of Pinterest recommendations for financial markets.

Interim Head of Engineering, Advisor

People.ai

- Led business-critical multi-year product initiatives from concept to implementation, delivery, and support which directly influenced close to 7 figures in ARR.

- Established initial security and compliance functions. Acquired SOC Type 1 and Type 2 in record time. Established engineering security training
- Built the first version of the engineering platform improving monthly uptime from 95% to 99.9% in 6 months

Director Of Engineering

300Editors

*Acquired by a private company*

Get Your Writing Proofread
In Real Time

Hire a professional editor who will perfect your text while you're watching it. All within Google Docs©.

Co Founder

Connect.com

Connect (connect.com) is an AI planning platform designed to make realizing everyday events seamless and inspiring.

Director of Backend/Lead Software Engineer

SugarCRM

As a lead of an Enterprise Professional Services team, Artem was responsible for architecture and design of SalesConnect project. SalesConnect was a large highly distributed deployment of SugarCRM. The project involved over 150 engineers from all over the world, including  teams from US, India, China and Eastern Europe.

Software Development Lead

Intetics

During two years at Intetics company, I have been promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Team Lead. As a dev lead, I built and managed a highly effective cross-functional team. It was a really great time. We grew from 4 engineers to 64 just in 1.5 years. I still miss these guys.

Team Lead

Whispermate - ai voice to text, open source

I'm an engineer and startup founder focused on AI technologies. Current work: building Writingmate - an all-in-one AI platform integrating multiple models and advanced tools like MCPs (browser control, file system). My expertise spans deep technical implementation and product strategy, particularly in dimensional analysis for business intelligence systems. Previous experience at Meta and multiple startups developed my skills in scaling engineering teams and products. I build solutions at the intersection of cutting-edge AI technology and practical business applications. Open to connecting with fellow founders and engineers in the AI space for collaboration or knowledge exchange.


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