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Community Lead

monday.com

Seeking to answer the age-old question - how do you help people who are excited about your product stay excited?

Customer Advocacy Leader

With a passion for branding, ability to motivate others, and always striving to be forward thinking in my management of processes and productivity, it was a tremendous honor to be selected to build out this new branch of our Communications team. As a senior manager, the role evolved to help build a clear understanding of our institutional and departmental vision, unify team members with minimal supervision, and build networks of collaboration—all while carefully balancing the interests of all parties and maintaining high standards of quality, timeliness, stakeholder satisfaction, and brand alignment.

Senior Manager - Communications Strategic Projects & Operations

With this role, I was fortunate enough to get to pursue my ultimate passion - joining strategic projects on the Communications team. I got to play a vital role in managing these projects across the organization including helping take our company to the public markets (NASDAQ: MNDY) and ensuring effective team development and completion of global communications efforts. This position merges creative services with operations to bring and build consistent workflows for a high-performing team. This role developed and oversaw efficient workflows for creative projects, access team bandwidth, designs project schedules, and supervises resources to fulfill the successful delivery on every project and media effort around the world.

Communications Strategic Project & Operations Manager

The Startup for Startup idea represents monday.com's belief that we must first always do good. Getting to spend a full year focusing on creating the infrastructure of this initiative was a tremendous privilege. The power of building an excellent product is best complimented by sharing challenges we've overcome and being vulnerable about the lessons we've learned. We want to ensure that we do good not only for our customers but also for our community. 

The vision of this Startup Ecosystem Development Initiative is that even high-performing startup companies have a lot to learn through sharing. We seek to empower others in our community to share and grow together through content and resources that help teams thrive.

Read & listen: www.startupforstartup.com

Startup Ecosystem Leader - Startup for Startup Initative

Turns out communication in a growing team is tough, especially when the team is global. With the support of the monday.com platform (wink wink) we're able to continue to scale rapidly.

This role involves leading the charge for the USA Success team and building a hybrid local and remote team from scratch based in Manhattan. Together with the home office in Israel, we iterate and build processes for our entire Customer Success department to increase efficiency while still providing remarkable world-class support and ensuring our customers success through our platform.

Head of Customer Success, Americas

Building and cultivating the remote culture for a growing startup. At monday.com we help people find fulfillment in their work and my role as the US Team Lead was to empower our team here to support the broader Customer Success organization inside monday.com

Customer Success Team Leader

monday.com is a team management and collaboration tool designed to transform your work processes and create an environment of transparency.

As a web-based Software as a Service company, we facilitate a more efficient and intuitive way to manage teams by centralizing communication and keeping things in context. This role was a foundational experience in both building a team and working in it. We often said we were building the bridge as we crossed it, and the knowledge we all gained here during this time was invaluable and transformative.

Customer Success Manager

Red Bull

Recruited to join RedBull from a former coworker, and after having my application rejected, ended up bringing a plate of chicken wings to the corporate office and landed the opportunity.

• Developing onsite marketing strategies
• Achieve monthly key performance indicators (KPI‘s) in the following areas: total sales, 
distribution percentages of core products and establishing new accounts 
• #1 in all KPI’s / top performer in region 2015-2016

Strategic Account Sales Manager

Trialfacts

Trialfacts helps clinical recruitment professionals achieve their study goals by finding qualified participants for their studies through a variety of ethics committee-approved marketing and recruitment methods. I joined the company as the #2 and consulted on everything customer related, working directly with customers and sizeable clinical trial organizers. I created the standard for client interaction and onboarding with the direction of founder Nick Karrasch.

Head of Customer Support

Server Side Design, Inc

Server Side Design, Inc.™ is a Houston, TX. based Website Marketing & Website Advertising Company that specializes in search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, social media marketing, local marketing, mobile marketing and video marketing.

Key Account Manager

New York Life Insurance Company

As a New York Life agent in Houston, I was able to help guide clients through the often overwhelming process of creating an insurance and financial blueprint.

Series 6/63 Registered Representative

Memorial Hermann Health System

Working closely with family practice doctors to build and manage a database online of their 1500+ patients.

Infrastructure Project Manager

My post today is about why annual reviews need to change 📈

I just want to make sure my tombstone reads 'dude was helpful'. Passionate about performing as a team, and so grateful to be able to bring that to life through both my work at monday.com and the Empowered Managers Network.

Matt Burns

Cisco

I own the Product Enablement learning solution roadmap and development motion for partners, customers, and users of a $4B ARR SaaS cloud networking platform.

Recent wins include:

• Launching Meraki Learning Paths, a new solution format offering guided online modules organized by business outcome and persona. Five paths enable 96% of $4B+ ARR. Includes summative assessment, recognition through certification, and LMS badge.

• Shipping the CMNE curriculum for Network Ops Center engineers and admins, with dashboard platform labs and certificate, driving 150+ MAUs and 1,200 annual completions.

Product Manager

I scaled design and development processes that empowered our Agile product teams to deliver best-in-class learning solutions. 

I'm most proud that I:

• Scaled customer completions of our online learning solutions by 4.5x in 18 months
• Increased customer and partner confidence in Meraki products by 35% with online learning
• Achieved 70% completion rate by designing the UX components for 50+ modules
• Contributed to GTM strategy and product community to grow audience engagement 20% per quarter

Learning Content Manager

GP Strategies Corporation

I supported and coached a team of 15-20 designers and developers who created award-winning learning solutions for Fortune 100 companies in tech, healthcare, finance, and aerospace. 

I'm most proud that I:

• Accomplished 92% or above for engagement, resourcing, and utilization metrics
• Owned the localization strategy across 12 clients and $750k annual revenue
• Onboarded and upskilled 50+ developers by designing an onboarding curriculum

Team Lead, Learning Content & Localization

I owned localization development. I also led a learning product framework with a cross-functional, Agile engineering team building features in Angular and Node.js. 

In this role I:

• Scaled from 0 to 20+ global clients in finance, healthcare, aerospace, and tech
• Consulted with executive stakeholders and customers to review features
• Maintained prioritized product roadmap and backlog for engineering team sprints

Senior Developer

As a lead developer, I helped build a program to create and localize learning solutions for global Fortune 100 clients. 

In this role I:

• Owned development process for creating and localizing hundreds of learning solutions
• Led client meetings, stakeholder expectations, and live working sessions with SMEs

Learning Content Developer

Option Six (startup acquired by GP Strategies)

• Managed responsive front-end learning development using HTML5, XML, CSS, & JS
• Drafted learning content and storyboard scripts for VILT, WBT, and other formats

Author Solutions, LLC

• Produced content for website, email campaigns, newsletters, and marketing collateral
• Implemented online shopping and checkout platform for customers to drive product-led growth

Marketing Content Specialist

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business

• Mentored business students, providing resume reviews, interview coaching, and networking connections

Career Coach

I'm a product manager at Cisco with 15+ years experience launching technical learning products that enable customers, partners, and employees in Fortune 100 SaaS, cybersecurity, tech, finance, aerospace, and healthcare companies.

My recent wins include:
• Launching Meraki Learning Paths, with technical modules enabling AI platform features across a $4B+ ARR cloud networking portfolio of hardware and software.

• Developing the flagship Meraki technical learning product (Meraki Platform Fundamentals), driving 50k annual launches and 3,000 MAU completions, by leading a cross-functional Agile product team.

• Scaling the Cisco Meraki online learning program enrollments 4.5x in 18 months by leading product teams to adopt standardized Agile workflows, platforms, and operating procedures.

• Leading a team of learning experience developers building $10M in annual deliverables for Fortune 100 clients

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