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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
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Work Experience
2022
Head of Product Marketing
2022
SaaS Labs is s Sequoia-backed, Series B company focused on communication- and AI-based solutions for Sales and Support agents in SMB and mid-market companies. I'm building out the PMM function here with a focus to make PMM the "force multiplier" for all go-to-market efforts. PMM oversees pricing, packaging, positioning and messaging.
2016
Principal
2016
Started consultancy focused on improving data-driven marketing. Primarily have three types of (VC-backed) clients: -Growth marketing and analytics for data-driven companies, like Farewell, Domino Data Lab, Opsani and HouseKeys. -Product marketing and marketing leadership for very technical companies, like Domino Data Lab, Treasure Data, Cleanlab, Clearspeed, PubNub, YotaScale, Weaveworks, and BrightFunnel. Spearheaded Forbes and developer press coverage for PubNub. -Data science product leadership for companies like Plate IQ. Co-hosted regular events on Demand Gen: www.meetup.com/demand-gen/
2018
Limited Partner
2018
Portfolio companies include Airbnb, Amplitude, DigitalOcean, Fabric Genomics, and other product innovators.
2021 - 2022
Director of Product Marketing
2021 - 2022
SoftBank-backed Treasure Data is the leading enterprise CDP (Customer Data Platform) with hundreds of customers in the Global 2000. James is responsible for technical storytelling, and drives: -Product launches -Technical storytelling -Product demos
2015 - 2016
Director of Product Marketing
2015 - 2016
Led Analytics/ Insights and front-end (Browser & Mobile) Product Lines, and managed team of product marketers.
2014 - 2015
Principal Product Marketing Manager
2014 - 2015
Led launch of Rocket Fuel PMP (private marketplace)
2010 - 2014
Senior Manager, Product Management & Product Marketing
2010 - 2014
Led Go-to-Market and launch for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server. Promoted to lead Go-to-Market for all WebEx meetings products & services.
2009 - 2011
Co-founder & Advisor, Technology & Strategy
2009 - 2011
Creator behind social networking site for the real estate industry. Launched in early 2010 with over a dozen partners and thousands of members. Built and managed development team.
2007 - 2009
Founder and President
2007 - 2009
Built personal video studio and Web hosting business from scratch. Transformed business to cloud-based software company. Recruited engineers, developed prototype, and pitched angel investors and VCs. Sold dozens of clients before shelving business.
2000 - 2007
Senior Product Manager & Product Marketing
2000 - 2007
Leading speech recognition company. I specialized in product management, marketing and business development for speech and voice security applications.