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.

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Founder

Stealth

Co-Founder & CTO

Inscribe AI

After establishing a strong foundation in AML and fraud prevention, I created and led the credit analysis team, extending the company’s compliance expertise to include due diligence for onboarding and credit risk assessments. This work supported fintech leaders like Coast and BlueVine, enabling them to streamline their onboarding and credit analysis workflows.

Key accomplishments:

• Developed automated credit analysis systems to enhance underwriting processes and ensure accurate risk assessment for fintech providers.

• Designed and implemented due diligence frameworks that applied compliance-grade checks to onboarding and credit risk management.

• Partnered with leading fintech companies to deliver tailored solutions for compliance and credit analysis, directly impacting operational efficiency and regulatory adherence.

Credit Analysis Team Lead

As one of the early engineers at Inscribe.ai, I designed and implemented the company's anomaly detection infrastructure and AI/ML models. I led the development of robust AML and fraud prevention systems, collaborating with industry leaders like Stripe, Coinbase, and Brex to safeguard their onboarding operations.

Key accomplishments:

• Built and scaled transaction and onboarding monitoring systems to detect anomalies and prevent fraudulent activity across fintech platforms.

• Led the creation of comprehensive KYC, KYB, and KYX workflows, enabling seamless document verification, ID checks, and compliance processes for high-growth companies.

• Designed and implemented AI-driven fraud prevention mechanisms to streamline compliance for global enterprises.

Senior Software Engineer @ Fraud Prevention Team

Stanford University

I co-founded a robotics company to revolutionize logistics using cutting-edge multi-robot systems, drawing directly from the latest advancements in autonomous robotics research at Stanford University.

• Developed a multi-robot cargo maneuvering platform in collaboration with FedEx and DHL, piloting solutions for real-world logistics challenges.

• Built a team of five experts, including software engineers and roboticists, to advance autonomous robotics innovation.

• Spun out from Stanford's autonomous multi-robot research group, leveraging state-of-the-art findings to drive innovation.

• Designed and built our entire autonomous multi-robot stack and hardware from scratch, delivering a fully customized solution for autonomous cargo handling.

Researcher & Spin out Co-founder

PACCAR

PACCAR Innovation Center

• Synthetic sensor data generation using deep learning techniques for simulation purposes

• Contoller design and testing

• GPS and lidar localization integration

Autonomous Driving Software Engineer

Corlytics

• Designed and constructed high performance financial regulation ML text classification pipeline, containing: automated database connection and data retrieval, custom word vectorizer, stacked cross validation text classifier - combining multiple regressors, spam filtering

• Developed and tuned text entity extractor using Python and advanced NLP methods

• Interfaced both models with existing SQL databases and integrated models in production products

Software Developer & Data Analyst

European Space Agency - ESA

Development and testing of the Attitude Determination & Control System (ADCS) of EIRSAT-1

- The first Irish satellite, expected launch 2019	

- In collaboration with the European Space Agency Technology Programme

- Modelled orbital dynamics and kinematics of 2 unit CubeSat using MATLAB Simulink

- Optimized ADCS model to account for varying geomagnetic field using IGRF data and disturbances; Solar radiation pressure, Internal magnetic dipole and Aerodynamic drag

- Interfaced Simulink model with CubeSat hardware to produce Hardware in the Loop model in order to test commands at ground segment

Attitude Determination & Control System Development and Testing

Ziffren Brittenham, LLP

-	Investigated high volume, unstructured and outdated data sets to determine a pattern 

-	Deployed back propagation neural network using MATLAB to extract relevant data

-	Optimized algorithm by analysing cost functions of cross validation and training sets

-	Uploaded and sorted data using Structured Query Language (SQL)

-	Collaborated with IT to produce Audit Tolling App on K2 platform to access extracted data
 
-	Presented and trained staff to use the Audit Tolling App

Data Analyst

Berendsen Ireland

-	Collaborated with a team of three and the plant manager to develop a system to improve the efficiency of the production line, resulting in an increase of  ~2000 more units per week in factory capacity

-	Aggregated ABS customer database and survey data sets for over 500 clients 

-	Designed and executed customer surveys

-	Assembled and presented customer survey reports which enabled the company to focus on areas such as delivery timing and quality control

Process Engineer

-	Installed Kannegiesser Power Swing motor overnight with a team of two engineers to restore the factory to full capacity as quickly as possible

-	Measured and analysed factory water usage to detect leaks and minimize costs

-	Monitored PH level of boiler water samples to ensure optimal and efficient use of chemicals

-	Repaired and maintained; Lavatec dryers, Kannegiesser; washing, folding and Ironing machines to ensure no disruptions to production line

Maintenance Engineer

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