Product leader with 15 years in product and 7 years of people management experience (managing teams of up to 10 PMs). Most recently at Affirm, leading the growth & engagement product areas. Formerly at Epic Games, Google, thredUP, Rap to Beats, and ScoutForce. 

Wharton MBA, University of Michigan economics, and high school coding competitions before that.

Too many product releases don't move the metrics that matter. My product leadership style is the inverse. I specialize in driving business outcomes. This is across B2C and B2B SaaS, both in the core product and PLG (product-led growth).

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Live in Durham, NC.

The Wharton School

University of Michigan

Affirm

Lead the growth & engagement product areas:

- Grew App MAU ~3.5x by driving app installs, app opens, return visits via transactional & lifecycle emails, the website, and checkout optimizations
- Hired and developed PMs to lead the individual product areas across activation, the website, first time user experience, and app information architecture
- Set the 1 year+ product vision & strategy for a cross-functional pod of more than 50, then evangelized their work cross-functionally and to executives 

Developed my product leadership chops in a rapidly scaling post-IPO company. Exercised muscles around cross-functional alignment and analytically-driven product leadership.

Group Product Manager

Epic Games

Led data driven growth for Fortnite:

- Led OKR driven development for Fortnite across growth levers including social, creative, matchmaking, and concerts: helped kickstart growth for the largest game on the planet
- Created and pushed through experimentation agenda: helped produce experimentation platform and plug in with matchmaking, social, and recommendation tests to increase retention, average revenue per user, and playtime
- Helped drive the strategy & execution behind the Travis Scott concert, which at the time became the largest concert ever with 12.3 million concurrent concertgoers 

Developed my chops in the gaming industry for a mass-market social product. Finessed my product leadership style and craftsmanship.

Lead Product Manager

Google

Product management for one of the fastest growing products of in Google Cloud's history, the Job Search API:

- Enhanced core search functionality: launched evolutions of ML model to create sub-industry taxonomies and improve conglomerate search results
- Developed executive-level growth funnel dashboards: showed engagement and other predictors of churn to help maximize retention
- Launched updates to PLG motion to optimize form and onboarding, increasing channel contribution by XX%

Became proficient with Google product process and got large company SaaS experience to supplement small company experience at ScoutForce

Senior Product Manager

thredUP

Helped set stage for company's eventual IPO (March 2021):

- Led, built growth team: played key role in series D & E investments by increasing conversion ~2x, scaling marketing ~100x 
- Developed ad technology platform: led data infrastructure projects. Worked with C-Suite daily. Sat next to CMO, CTO, CEO. Hired first PMs
- Played integral role in growth from ~25 employees to 1200+

Became proficient with Jira, Asana, and the modern product stack.

Director of Product

Rap to Beats

Developed iOS app Rap to Beats & scaled to 300K monthly active users (MAU):

- Developed features: put the user first with testing and analytics. Worked extensively in XCode and iOS SDK, as well as Photoshop, Balsamiq, and Envision 
- Led organic growth: mastered viral growth through community leaderboard, sharing, App Store Optimization, and PR
- Iterated growth levers and personalization to build for specific segments and test funnel improvements >5x

Became proficient with mobile development stack, gaming publishing, and app stores.

Head of Product, Co-Founder

ScoutForce.com

Grew the top SaaS platform for College Sports recruiting, used by Major D1 programs like the University of Michigan:

- Only PM on the team: did everything from product requirements documents (PRD) and user acceptance tests (UATs) to SQL queries &  product strategy
- Developed customer personas and redesigned web app: identified key consumer use cases
- Launched entry into new segments: identified opportunity, sized market, then developed pricing and marketing strategy 

Became proficient with online web software stack and B2B SaaS product management.

Product Manager

Product leader | Helping you drive growth 🚀 | 10+ years doing it at: Affirm, Epic, Google, thredUP

Product Growth

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Andreas is as a member of Tchibo’s Executive Board in charge of marketing, online and the company´s international business. Before, he was Vice President Merchandising (Sales, Marketing, Product, etc.) and member of the Senior Executive Team at Chewy.  After many years at Amazon where he led Talent Management & Development at Amazon in Seattle and where he was Director Kindle and Managing Director of Amazon BuyVIP in Germany. Before Amazon, he was GM Sales Europe at L´Oréal in Paris (France) and Country Manager Consumer Division in Poland, after various other senior leadership positions at L´Oréal around the globe. Prior, Andreas was project manager at Rewe Group in Cologne (Germany); one of Europe´s leading retailers. 

His background is in general management, sales, marketing, product, and HR. In the US, Europe, and Australasia. As a passionate leadership expert, Andreas possesses comprehensive international working experience in E-Commerce, Technology, Retail, and Consumer Goods. A big focus of Andreas is assisting other to succeed. He's a certified coach and master coach. He was co-founder at Amazon Germany´s in-house Coaching Program and a founding member of L´Oréal's Mentoring Program in Germany. Over the past 20 years, Andreas had the pleasure to coach hundreds of executives, leaders, start-up entrepreneurs, and young managers. Both as internal & external coach. In his spare-time, he coaches & mentors members of disadvantaged & underprivileged groups. Based on the belief that everyone carries all resources in order to grow and to be successful. 

Andreas studied management and economics at Ludwigshafen Business School (Germany), in Salamanca (Spain), and in Nagoya (Japan). As a life-long learner he did an MBA at Henley Management School in the UK and a Doctor of Education (Ed.D) at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. His specialization is on organizational leadership and learning to help building high-performing organizations and fulfilled teams. He's a native German who speaks English, French, Spanish, and some Japanese. His latest book is about how organizations can create a Coaching Culture.

Disclaimer: All posts, comments, etc. reflect my own opinion and are written and/or posted by myself. I don’t use any agency, ghost writer, etc. Neither do I promote services, products, etc. for any 3rd party nor do I receive/accept any payments, fees, etc. for my posts. I’ve been very active on LinkedIN for more than 10 years. And I still enjoy learning and sharing here a lot. 

More at https://andreasvonderheydt.com

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Chosen as one of the Top 50 LinkedIN Influencers you should follow

Genos International

Genos Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner

Northeastern University

Doctor of Education

Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching

Marshall Goldsmith Certified Coach

Certified DIP Coach

NLP Master Coach

NLP Master Practitioner 

Systemic Coach and Leadership Coach

Henley Business School

Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences

Universidad de Salamanca

English

French

German

Japanese

Spanish

Tchibo

Member of the Executive Board - Marketing, Online, International

Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School

The Institute of Coaching at McLean, Harvard Medical School Affiliate, is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring scientific integrity in the field of coaching. As a fellow of the Institute I'm committed to disseminate the best coaching science and empower others and myself to catalyze positive change in our communities, ourselves, and the world around us.

Fellow 

Forbes Coaches Council

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Official Member Forbes Coaches Council

Andreas von der Heydt Coaching & Consulting

Key Focus Areas: 1) Executive and Team Coaching; 2) Business and Strategy Consulting (Retail, FMCG, Services); 3) Post Doctoral Research on Organizational Excellence and High Performance

Scholar & Coach

Chewy

Member of Chewy's Executive Leadership team. Business and P&L owner. Leading key strategic initiatives.

Vice President Category Management & Merchandising

Amazon

Managing and developing great talents from all over the world who love to write history, take over responsibility, have an affinity and passion for tech and business, and who want to have fun by working with exceptional people!

Director Talent Management & Development

Director & Country Manager Kindle Germany

Managing Director Amazon BuyVIP Germany

L'Oréal

In charge of sales of 28 European countries.

General Manager Sales Europe

Country Manager Poland

General Manager New Zealand

Marketing Director Garnier Skincare Germany 

Sales Director Australia

Director Key Account Management Germany 

National Key Account Manager Germany 

REWE Group

Retail Project Manager

Graduate Management Trainee

UniRef - University for Refugees

UniRef (University for Refugees) is a charity and NGO based in Geneva. UniRef delivers free tertiary education and professional vocational training to refugees living in UNHCR camps. The goal of UniRef is to make young refugees autonomous so that they can leave the camps and find employment in their country of origin or host country. 

Coaching for Community 

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Hi, I’m Vaibhav, currently the CEO/ Founder of GrowthSchool.

I am a growth hacker by profession and an entrepreneur from heart. 

Ever since my childhood (literally, I was 8 years old), I began doing marketing. Back then, I applied some spectacular marketing techniques to sell Beyblades at 200% of its cost price. 

However, I fell in love with marketing much later when I started “Discovery Android” in 2011. I, along with 3 team members, was successful in growing it to 1M+ page views in a year’s time. 
After Google banned our Adsense account (a story for another day), we had to shut down the website.

However, failures didn’t stop me from experimenting and trying new things. 
So, in the second year of engineering in 2013, when students are generally busy studying new subjects, I started CrazyHeads, where I was managing a team of 14 crazy heads who had a knack for growth marketing. 

In less than 3 years, we served over 100 clients from India, US, Brazil, Australia etc. In 2014, CrazyHeads won “Fast Emerging Digital Media Startup of the Year” award. 
In 2015, I decided to exit from CrazyHeads and take on the next challenge. 

Uber, the $40B beast now, was then trying to get its foot placed in Indian Market. I joined Uber to help them tap the unexplored markets in India and increase brand visibility. At the age of 23, I was promoted to the post of Marketing Manager. 

From merely 100 trips per week, we scaled up the market to reach a million trips every week by applying a well-planned and executed growth strategy.  

Post Uber, I joined this travel rocketship Klook as head of marketing for India & ME where I managed to scale Klook India business from 6M to 28M USD in a year.

During the pademic, I decided to startup again and launched GrowthSchool.

I have been a marketing consultant to over 60 startups, helping them to find new customers & grow exponentially through growth hacking at half the budget of digital marketing. 

Till now, I have launched three courses on Growth Hacking - Linkedin, FB Chatbots and Instagram (Visit sisinty.com to check them out).

Entrepreneur, KillerStartups, BuzzFeed, The Hindu and other reputed publications have featured me in their articles and other resources. 

I have delivered over 40 workshops and 20 talks in top companies, colleges as well as online events. Get a glimpse of a few of my talks here (https://sisinty.com/speaking/) 

If you want to talk more about growth hacking, marketing strategy or especially Linkedin (since it’s my personal favourite), hit me up or just email me : vaibhav@sisinty.com

SAM stands for “Science, Art, Management” which means it encompasses almost any subject. SAM Conferences will be a platform “where Ideas Meet”.

SAM Global Foundation Trust encourages the cross pollination of ideas from all over the world and encourage the implementation of these Ideas .Where possible, SAM attempts to connect the Innovator and the person wanting to implement the Idea.

SAM Global Foundation Trust will make available the best talks and performances from all over the world under one umbrella, for free. Specific SAM talks will also be added regularly . The talks are all curated and selected based on a stringent rating system. These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

SAM Global Youth Award

Fast Emerging Digital Media Startup of the Year

GITAM Deemed University

Internet

St Vincents convent school 

Hindi

Oriya

Telugu

GrowthSchool

GrowthSchool partners with the top 1% of instructors to create high-impact cohort-based courses on personal and professional growth for learners all over the world.

Founder / CEO

Shardeum

Angel Investor

Komet

Wall

Wint Wealth 

Deciml

Linen Wallet

ChintaMoney

Avalon Labs 

Angel Investor - Scenes

Republic

Invested in Gumroad, linen, backstage etc

Angel Investor ( Multiple startups via Republic )

🔥Enabling the world to learn from Top 1% | Founder, GrowthSchool ( 💰 by Sequoia & Owl Ventures )

Wanted to understand how websites like ScoopWhoop, BuzzFeed generate content, market and make content viral. Set up a viral website ( taken down ) and experimented with different types of content and was able to take 16 posts viral ( more than 5000 shares on social )

Content research was done using tools like Import.io , BuzzSUMO, Google Trends etc.

Summary :

Duration : 120 Days
Pageviews : 5.2M
Total shares : 79k
Revenue : 7900 USD 

	name		keywords	# followers	# posts	# engagements	eng. ratio	score
1.	Aakash Gupta	🇺🇸	ai gpt4 leadership	103,586	28	219,581	8.65%	23.16
2.	Andreas von der Heydt	🇩🇪	gpt4 ai ukraine	501,104	22	110,211	6.68%	19.96
3.	Vaibhav Sisinty ↗️	🇮🇳	holi ai education	391,956	10	12,367	5%	11.32

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