Kevin Owens - Product Strategist
 

Chief Product Officer

Kevin

Owens

 
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Background

Overview

Senior business leader with expertise defining product vision through stakeholder need assessments and innovation techniques. Ability to define high-level product roadmaps to drive engagement and produce superior outcomes. Demonstrated success leading collaboration among cross-functional, globally dispersed teams, aligning priorities and building strategies for a successful future. Experience consolidating, rationalizing and prioritizing market requirements into flexible product roadmaps, defined go-to-market strategies and timelines for product features that attain business objectives and goals.

 

Experience

MotorK, Chief Product Officer

July 2023 - Present

Chief Product Officer at MotorK that is focused on building out solutions to enable the digital journey for Automotive Dealers and OEM’s. Primary responsibilities are:

  • Lead the Product and Design teams working across Italy, France, Portugal & Spain

  • Work with the stakeholders and country teams to build a strong product roadmap

  • Building a customer-centric and data driven culture of user research, experimentation and analytics

  • Working with Marketing and Sales to launch new features to drive activation and engagement

  • Building out a consolidated vision for the MotorK platform

Doodle, Chief Product Officer

May 2020 - Feb 2023

Chief Product Officer at Doodle that is focused on building out the Enterprise SaaS capabilities, while also continuing leadership in the Doodle Groups products. Primary responsibilities are:

  • Leading the Product, Design, Product Marketing, Customer Success and Support teams at Doodle, while partnering with internal stakeholders on product roadmap and strategy

  • Evolving Doodle into an Enterprise leading SaaS platform for Customer Facing and Group Meetings

  • Building out the Partnership and Integration strategy to align with the future Product Strategy and Use Cases

  • Partnering with Marketing and Sales to develop Enterprise and SMB sales approach and content strategy

Reveleer, VP Product

May 2017 - May 2020

Head of Product at Reveleer that was focused on continuing the transition to a SaaS company, while gaining an intimate understanding of the industry and customer needs. Primary responsibilities are:

  • Evolve the product roadmap for the Medical Record Insights platform to align with long term company strategy and near-term product needs, while working with key internal and external stakeholders

  • Working with our Health Plan customers to understand the many personas and use cases, while building out key partnerships with leading partners in the Healthcare payer and provider space.

  • Partnering with Engineering to manage the Agile Sprints by creating user stories, managing the backlog and representing the voice of the customer

  • Transitioning the organization to a more technology-led company with a focus on SaaS revenue and service

  • Building out our Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning strategy and product roadmap

Fuel Cycle, Chief Product Officer

May 2012 - May 2017

Was a key member of the executive team that focused on driving the B2B SaaS Platform Product Management and User Experience Groups while working with the Sales, Client Services and the Board of Directors to define short and long term strategy. 

  • Partnered with all Fuel Cycle customers, partners and business stakeholders in 2012 to redefine, redesign and relaunch the core platform in 2013 that incorporated years of customer feedback and the latest technology

  • Developed and managed the product innovation roadmap in combination with the executive, sales, customer success, engineering, board of directors, industry analysts and key customers

  • Conducted regular product innovation discussions, meetings and ideation sessions with clients such as Mastercard, AIG, Care Source, Target, Hulu and ABC

  • Initiated and led the development of a platform-based loyalty program which allowed clients to earn and track points, check real-time status and usage; redeem points for gift cards and physical rewards

  • Built key partnerships with leading players in key industries such as Qualtrics, Survey Gizmo, IBM, and Tableau

  • Collaborated with IBM Watson team to integrate cognitive computing, sentiment analysis, and machine learning capabilities within the FUEL Community platform

  • Formulated and implemented the Social Engagement strategy to include direct integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google

North Highland, Manager - Strategy Consulting

June 2011 - May 2012

Led consulting engagements for large corporate clients in the areas of strategy, business improvement, change management and product management.

  • Partnered with large corporate clients for client consulting engagements, implemented strategy, business improvement, change management, and product management

  • Led a large change management initiate at Wells Fargo in St Louis that divested 1,500 employees and united 50+ multilevel company stakeholders from all areas of the company

  • Provided consultative services to Bank of America to develop new processes and systems for handling mortgage insurance claims with national providers

LRN, Sr. Product Manager

Jan 2008 - March 2010

Responsible for the day to day operations and the future roadmap of the LRN B2B SaaS eLearning platform. 

  • Developed and managed the 18 month product and content roadmap that eliminated a previous reactive, unplanned, expensive and error-prone development cycle.

  • Worked closely with the software engineering team in Los Angeles and Mumbai to implement product enhancements and bug fixes for the Java and AJAX based software as a service platform.

  • Led a scenario planning effort to understand the long-term impacts of changes to regulation and how the product and content would need to adapt. These resulted in increased insight and a long-term roadmap.

  • Re-engineered the operations, technology and change management strategy for the product to be more responsive to changes in the external and internal environment. This resulted in an increase in client satisfaction and sales force effectiveness as measured by increased deal size and revenue

Accenture Interactive, engagement Manager

Oct 2004 - December 2007

Led domestic and international projects in the areas of new media strategy, process re-engineering, interactive media, e-commerce and software development. This included new business development, recruiting, budgeting, project management, employee development and client management. 

  • Led team of 10 employees in the development of a new dealer order system that utilized leading edge eCommerce applications and order management. This replaced a previous fax, email and phone based order process.

  • Collaborated with online travel company's executive team to develop eCommerce strategy and performed vendor assessment of the top eCommerce vendors. This resulted in a new e-commerce strategy with a vendor recommendation that fit the budget and timing for the client.

  • Worked with major hotel and casino in Las Vegas to develop a custom eCommerce and Content Management system for managing their hotel website properties. This replaced a previous static site that required interaction with an outside vendor.

MW2 COnsulting, Manager

Sept 2003 - October 2004

Directed team of 8 MW2 employees on-site at Hewlett-Packard, while leading as Project Manager for client team.

  • Worked with clients in Asia Pacific to define their requirements for an internal content provisioning platform

Technologies

Years of Experience

 

Interest

Product Strategy

Design

UX

Travel

Music

 

Education

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

MBA, Strategy, Innovation & Scenario Planning
Graduated May 2010

 

CSU San Marcos, San Diego

B.S. Management Information Systems
Graduated May 1999

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