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Steve Blair

@steveblairuk

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Extensive experience building & leading international teams for fast-ARR with a fantastic CX.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

Current employment ended as company did a 20%+ reduction world wide. I’m looking for a Director of Product or Director of Product Management role.

Strategic operations: Lead the competitive analysis, develop 1-3 year product vision and strategy, translate customer needs to roadmaps for execution of products having strong commercial value.

Manage relationships: Strategize and strong engagement with stakeholders, investors, and cross-functional teams (Sales, CSM, SE, Marketing, SI/Partners) to champion a product-led culture of profitable products.

Business Management: Building / recruiting / growing Product Management teams, managing across multiple countries, ARR growth, defined KPIs, managing P&L, pricing strategy, product profitability, operational budgeting, forecasting, and development to delivery of products.

Leading products: Delivering a collaborative Agile product lifecycle planning, customer use-case analysis, building/rebuilding teams, hiring and mentoring, Miro, Jira, Jama, Confluence, Profientz product planning tools to deliver end-to-end concepts to product launch.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Sr. Director Product Management

Current

Hyland

Sep 2020 - Present (5 years 1 month)

Leader for an international team with $200M ARR for Alfresco and Nuxeo
products, define strategy and vision to extract maximum value for customers to
solve their business outcomes
• Evaluate market trends, competitive landscape, and customer feedback to identify
new opportunities to enhance our value propositions
• Evangelist on Open Source, product management methodology and SDLC advocate

Product Management Customer Success Product Design Product Strategy People Management Leadership Product Roadmap Teams Hiring

Director Product Management

Opentext

Apr 2016 - Aug 2020 (4 years 4 months)

Head of an international team of Product Managers for our products which
enable enterprises to solve their tough process automation challenges
developing our solution in 11 sites
• Managed budgets, lead release planning, product delivery for a $30M
portfolio of products

Management Product Management Strategy Product Roadmap CX Team Building SaaS UX Growth

Principal Product Manager - Cloud-based UX / Customer SaaS

Symantec

Jul 2006 - Apr 2016 (9 years 9 months)

Many PM contributions in the team delivering 3 major product releases
and 6 incremental product releases over 5 years in roles of EMEA PM for
some components, Global PM other components.
• Gathered product requirements for EMEA customers, working through
security and technology challenges in the Enterprise and Data Centre
environments they operate
• Created product proposals & business