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Chris Messina

Product Leader

Emeryville, California

Skills

Cohort Leadership
Product Design
End User Research
Salesforce.com Development
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Software
Organizational Development
Airtable
Marketing
Developer Advocacy
Marketing Strategy
User Experience
CSS3
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
User Interface Design
CSS
Social Networking
Web 2.0
Product Management

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2023

2021 - 2022

  • Product Lead

    2022 - 2022

    Responsible for the Founder Experience on Republic, I lead efforts to migrate internal processes from spreadsheets to a robust Airtable database, and to migrate from the Pipedrive CMS to Salesforce. I lead the design, development, and launch of Teaser Pages, the fastest way to start raising with Republic.

  • Head of West Coast Business Development

    2021 - 2022

    Charged with expanding the presence of equity crowdfunding platform Republic on the West Coast and throughout Silicon Valley.

2021 - 2022

  • Community Developers Council (CDC) Member

    2021 - 2022

    As an elected representative of the Rally Creator Ecosystem, I advocated for Creator Coin utilization by the broader Rally developer ecosystem by building a grant in-take system, and provided guidance and feedback on marketing efforts, and worked with the other members of the Community Developer Council to deploy 1 million $RLY per quarter to grant applicants.

2021 - 2021

  • Course Creator Fellow

    2021 - 2021

2020 - 2021

  • Product Therapist

    2020 - 2021

    Providing product design, product strategy, marketing, and launch guidance for the world's top makers, entrepreneurs, and internet innovators.

2020 - 2020

  • Fellow

    2020 - 2020

    Participating as a fellow in the On Deck Cohort 4. Learn more about the program here: beondeck.com

2019 - 2020

  • Product Design Consultant

    2019 - 2020

2018 - 2018

  • Consultant

    2018 - 2018

2017 - 2018

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2018

    Executed branding, product and UI design (iOS, desktop and mobile web), product and launch strategy, onboarding the first 200 influencers, and building the initial community, and growing Molly's subscriber base to 20K members.

Botness

2016 - 2017

  • Organizer

    2016 - 2017

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