Rob Calvert
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Rob为初创公司和全球组织验证、发布和发展数字产品. He hits the ground running, bringing hands-on experience in engineering, design, and multiple business contexts. Rob makes the complex simple, drives business decisions through customer insights and data, and leads teams to deliver exceptional results in tight timeframes. He also holds an MA from the University of Cambridge.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Product Advisor
UserReplay
- Set foundations for a best-practice product function.
- Hired, onboarded, and coached the product team.
- 在关键时期为公司提供持续的战略建议.
Head of Product (Interim)
Saberr
- 彻底检查优先级流程和整体产品方法.
- 进行了30多个客户发现访谈，成功地转移了产品和商业策略.
- 领导多个设计冲刺，快速识别和测试产品改进.
- Conducted solution interviews to validate B2B propositions.
Lead Product Manager
Idean
- 作为临时产品主管被借调到一家由全球领先银行资助的金融科技公司.
- 带领30人以上的产品开发团队，率先推出手机产品.
- 担任针对公共部门和B2B的大数据产品的产品和交付经理, spearheading initial launch.
- 为一家英国家居公司提出一项建议，以指导其在美国的市场进入战略.
- 全面改革产品管理招聘流程，提高应聘人员的质量.
- 提供指导，讲座和培训，以促进代理内的产品管理.
Managing Director | Lead Product Manager
Mighty Sharp
- Led 50+ digital projects, spanning eCommerce, marketplaces, mobile, third sector, and novel web applications.
- 将项目从最初的想法转变为完全实现的产品——编写需求, overseeing the build, release, and subsequent growth.
- 与各种客户合作，包括YouGov, BAFTA，摩根大通和联合国.
- 在后来的几年里，与五家早期创业公司合作，提供mvp，并支持未来的增长.
- Delivered 10x growth for an early-stage eCommerce startup.
- Built marketing website in six weeks that delivered 1,000,在行销预算为零的情况下，在一周内创造了5000个产品印象.
- Led the commercial strategy and company from inception, 从一个卧室项目发展到交割时的100万英镑运行率.
Project History
MVP Delivery for a Fintech
在组织三次失败的尝试后，领导了一个复杂的移动MVP的成功交付.
The organization was a mix of internal and external staff, 在我被任命时，我们已经错过了12个月的3次内部发布截止日期. The technical infrastructure included an ML-driven decision engine, an API platform designed to support multiple ventures, and a data lake.
我的职责是领导产品开发团队(由30名产品经理组成), designers, and engineers), 并与即将上任的首席技术官一起确保下一个备受瞩目的发布截止日期.
With only one day to prepare, 我带领产品开发团队度过了一段非常混乱的时期——交付节奏加快, vastly improving the process, 重建产品和组织其他部分之间的信任.
We successfully launched the product on time, 并根据客户反馈立即着手改进工作.
Beyond delivery, 我为四位新产品经理上岗(需要时直接提供支持), defined a first data strategy, 并指导内部利益相关者建立一个以产品为主导的创业公司的关键原则.
MVP Delivery and Growth for an eCommerce Startup
Delivered a significant evolution of an eCommerce startup, launching in ten weeks and leading to a 10x growth in year one.
Following a successful proof of concept, 创始人筹集了一笔7位数的投资，并找到我，让我对现有的品牌和网站进行全面改革，为未来的发展提供一个平台.
Leading a blended team of six, 我在十周内完成了网站的重塑(基于Ruby on Rails), including significant customization and subscription capability.
最初发行时，游戏的基本转化率增加了160%，在3个月内，游戏的运行率增加了10倍. 该网站与Pottermore和Rolls-Royce一起被The Drum提名为年度最佳网站.
后续阶段的工作提供了大约4倍的投资回报, 包括多轮分离测试，以进一步提高转化率和优化，以提高内部运营效率.
Evolution of a Big Data Product
定义并交付对大数据产品的重大改进, securing the initial sales in the public sector.
Based on an Azure, Node.js, and React stack, 该产品摄取并解析了超过1200万行Excel数据, 并允许用户通过直观的用户界面进行查询.
However, initial feedback from potential buyers had been negative, and the company had failed to secure any initial sales.
我的职责是领导一个三人小团队(一名设计师和两名工程师)，定义和交付产品改进以确保初始销售.
I successfully delivered within a tight timeline, working in tandem on the discovery and delivery phases. I played multiple roles to support the team, including hands-on user experience design, front-end development, Scrum Master, and stakeholder management.
这些改进使该产品首次在公共部门销售.
From Seed to Series A for a Supply Chain Disruptor
为一家扰乱供应链的初创公司提供MVP，并在a轮融资中提供关键支持.
After securing initial funding, 他们找我来定义和领导他们的MVP交付，并支持之后的发展.
Following customer discovery and expert interviews, 我领导了一个由5名工程师和设计师组成的混合团队，在12周内定义并交付了Supply Compass平台的第一个版本.
Subsequent work continued to evolve the platform, and I continued to oversee the hiring of an in-house product team.
该公司已经成长为一个品牌匹配和审查的平台, world-class manufacturers, design collections, and manage the entire production process from design-to-delivery.
Education
Master of Arts (Cantab) Degree in Natural Sciences
University of Cambridge - Cambridge, UK
Skills
Tools
Jira, Trello, Google Analytics
Paradigms
可用性测试、敏捷产品管理、Scrum、看板、敏捷、市场平台
Other
Feature Backlog Prioritization, Lean Canvas, Lean Startups, Customer-centered Product Development, Customer Discovery, Product Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Product Management, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Product Delivery, Product Owner, Product Leadership, Business Analysis, Fintech, eCommerce, Lean Experiments, Waterfall Delivery, Leadership, A/B Testing, Analytics, User Experience (UX), Profit & Loss (P&L), Web Technologies, Stakeholder Management, Information Architecture (IA), Web Development, Optimization, Process Optimization, Waterfall Methodology, Mobile, Brand Development
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