LinkedIn

I lead business development for LinkedIn Learning and I'm also the chief of staff to the Head of BD

Senior Director, Business Development  / Chief of Staff

Director, Business Development - LinkedIn Learning

Redwood HR

Founder / Career Coach

Indeed.com

Helping people get jobs! My responsibilities at Indeed are as follows:
- Corporate strategy: serving as Head of Strategy for Indeed, responsible for developing and operationalizing company level strategy working directly with CEO and other senior executives.
- Product Partnerships: Enable Indeed's product organization to create new products and scale existing products via ecosystem partnerships and integrations. Manage key C-level strategic partnerships within broader HR Tech and recruiting industry.
- New Business Development: Explore, validate and materialize new market and business opportunities for Indeed.

Director, Product Partnerships and Corporate Development

Google

Product integration partnerships across Chrome, Geo, Developer Products with particular focus on mobile and "next billion" markets. 
- Drive internal execution with focus on product strategy, go-to-market strategy, product launch, marketing, press and PR relationships, etc.
- Lead external product adoption and scaling with focus on pipeline management, pitching, case studies and metrics to demonstrate product success, and managing several high-stakes relationships with C-level partner executives
- Speak at and represent Google at industry events and partner events

Business Development Lead, Global Product Partnerships

Drive cohesive business strategy in unison with cross-functional leaders to add top-line and bottom-line impact to Google’s business across various geographies and product areas. Examples of initiatives:
- Board level business updates for Google's executive leadership and Board of Directors
- Strategy projects, deep-dives, competitive intel on a variety of Google business areas (e.g. Doubleclick ad tech, Search, Social) 
- Chief of staff for Chief Business Officer

Senior Strategy Lead, Global Business Strategy

Cisco

Led business planning, quarterly business reviews, corporate strategy, quarterly forecasting cycles, macroeconomic updates, business and financial modeling to support targeted selling, country
deep dives, and facilitate development of corporate priorities/strategic bets. Example of initiatives:
- Board level business updates for Cisco's executive leadership and Board of Directors. 
- Annual business planning (sales, headcount, opex, etc) for Cisco's global sales organization.
- Strategy projects ranging from competitive analysis, benchmarking, go-to-market and pricing. 
- Chief of staff for Head of Worldwide Sales

Business Development & Strategy Manager, Worldwide Sales

Urban Science

Management consultant, drove marketing and business development strategy and execution for Ford, GM and several other global automotive clients. Specifics include:
- Create, manage and execute direct marketing campaigns
- Create metrics, reports, dashboards to measure performance of direct marketing campaigns

Senior Associate

Seasoned business development and strategy leader with 18+ years’ experience in cultivating strategic technology partnerships and evaluating complex market landscapes to inform product and go-to-market strategy. Proven record in building successful enterprise partnerships and executive relationships, leading high-performing teams and driving effective cross-functional collaboration within an organization.

It's an exciting day at LinkedIn as we cross 100M verified members, a major milestone as we scale trust and authenticity on our platform and across the internet 🎉 

A growing number of organizations are adopting "Verified on LinkedIn", our verifications API product, to bring trust, authenticity and credibility to various use-cases across their platforms. Excited to welcome Zoom, PeerSpot and User Interviews to our growing list of partners that already includes Adobe, G2, UserTesting, TrustRadius, Furnished Finder and more. 

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Verified on LinkedIn

Zoom

PeerSpot

User Interviews

Adobe

UserTesting

TrustRadius

Furnished Finder

AI at Zoom

VP of Product

VP Global Partnerships & Data Solutions, G2

Sr. Director, Content Authenticity @ Adobe, Steering Member @ C2PA, TIME100 AI, building authentic storytelling tools for all

Senior Product Manager at UserTesting

Driving Partner Success at G2!

Senior Director of Product at HG Insights

Business Development & Partnerships, Product, GTM | Strategy to Execution, 0→1 to Scale

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