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Joseph Ambeault
New York, NY
Experience
Optimum
Senior Vice President, Product Development
- Lead 349 tech product managers, engineers, designers, and UX researchers for consumer and business connectivity products
- Increasing velocity of discovery and delivery with tools and automation, improving successful production changes to 100%
- Authored & implemented the corporation’s first Job Leveling Guide, correlated to improving employee engagement from 77 to 85
- Returned 45% of sales channels to YoY growth with new capabilities and continuous improvements delivered with DevSecOps
Brightspeed
Vice President, Product
- Led product management and business development for a startup fiber broadband provider
- Core contributor to a debt offering, backed by Apollo Capital, that raised over $10B in capital
- Lead negotiator for strategic contracts with a total value exceeding $400M
- Established product vision and principles with 2-year product, offer, and technology strategy
- Led the definition and delivery of a new API-first, cloud native tech stack to replace 800+ conveyed applications in 10 months
- Launched new fiber products less than 6 months after the company began operating while stabilizing conveyed products
Codecademy
Vice President, Product
- P&L owner for subscription direct to consumer and business to business education tech products
- Led product, design, UX research, data science, and community departments consisting of 39 employees
- Grew 1Q21 revenue 52% YoY with e.commerce optimizations, tech quality improvements, and new features
- Implemented Bayesian knowledge tracing machine learning model to measure the mastery of technology skills
Discovery
Senior Vice President, Product and Technology
- Responsible for streaming products with 3-years of 100% YoY growth that provided all the corporation’s ad revenue growth
- Led a global team of product managers, designers, and engineers that grew from 23 to 164, plus 90 contract engineers, with a 4% voluntary attrition
- Delivered and operated consumer experiences with over 100K videos across 11 CE devices for 18 content brands
- Integrated direct, header, and waterfall programmatic ad demand sources to meet eCPM and fill rate targets
- Enabled data-driven targeting, viewability, and audience measurement capabilities to attract new ad clients
- Developed UX improvements, enabling 33% YoY increases in revenue per consumer session
- Implemented product improvements and supported marketing initiatives to grow daily hours viewed from 0.2M to 3.1M
- Developed a real-time data platform that processes 2.6B events daily for analytics, operations and product use cases
- Increased uptime from 97% to 99.995% and removed 3s of latency from the UX, while API traffic increased by 12x
- Led global product and development workstream for MotorTrend and Scripps acquisitions and integrations
Verizon Communications
Executive Director, Consumer Video Product Management
- Responsible for FiOS TV, NFL Mobile and GO90 products that delivered over $150M in annual ad sales revenues
- Led a global team of 50 product managers, designers, and usability researchers
- Grew GO90 audience by over 100% MoM by increasing distribution, developing tune-in tools, and A/B testing
- Co-inventor for 2 digital media discovery and delivery patents that were granted by USPTO in 2016
- Led the acquisition and integration of Vessel’s technology and product development staff to accelerate GO90 growth
- Defined video strategies for 5G, Internet of Things and Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality corporate initiatives
Chief Product Officer
- P&L owner for a subscription video on demand joint venture that acquired 0.5M OTT subscribers in under 2 years
- Led a global team of 120 product managers, engineers, designers, and usability researchers
- Designed and instituted startup governance with DevOps tooling to open for sale in 10 months
- Delivered client apps for 11 CE devices in under 8 months, reaching more than 60M televisions across US households
- Continuously enhanced mobile apps with analytics and usability studies to deliver app ratings exceeding 4.5 stars
- Rationalized offers using analytics with predictive modeling to increase engagement by 17% and reduce churn by 13%, accelerating positive value contribution from subscribers by 4 months
Director, Consumer Video Product Management
- Responsible for a global team of 35 product managers delivering FiOS products that grew from $0 to over $8B in revenues
- Established strategies for media policies and advocated for Verizon’s position with Congress and the FCC
- Delivered the pay TV industry’s highest ARPU of $103 while reducing costs by over $100M annually
- Created and implemented a commercial model for interactive TV that became profitable in less than 6 months
- Extended the FiOS TV platform to include web, smartphones / tablets, XBOX 360, connected TV’s and Blu-ray players
- Grew VCAST Video to over 4M subs with a new content strategy, content merchandising tools, and better tech quality
- Popular Science Best Innovation (2007), Consumer Reports (2007-2012), and J.D. Powers (2008-2012) awards
SeaChange International
Director, Broadband Systems
- Managed $120 million VOD and advertising solutions product portfolio for global markets
- Supervised 2 product marketing managers focused on cable, telecom, and satellite sectors
- Doubled Latin American business through primary research, strategic pricing, and marketing campaigns
- Launched the first network-based time-shifted TV application and managed global sales to operators
- Byline in post production trade magazines outlining how to access interactive video and ads business opportunities
- Created video business cases with localized assumptions for worldwide network operator executives
- Emmy award for technically innovative VOD system that powered 70% of commercial deployments
Product Manager, Advertising Systems
- Managed advertising product definition, release processes, market launch, and initial sales cycles
- Implemented value engineering programs producing a 26% increase in gross margins
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Capital Corporation
Network Manager / Officer of the Bank
- Led Year 2000 enterprise assessment and remediation program to meet Federal Reserve requirements
- Designed and maintained disaster recovery plans to ensure immediate business resumption capabilities
- Migrated mainframe applications and Banyan Vines infrastructure to Windows servers to reduce costs
- Integrated globally distributed systems into a cost effective and fault resilient enterprise network
SeaChange International
Service Engineer
- Provided second level remote and field support to customers, call center, and installation staff
- Analyzed catastrophic system failures to determine root cause and provide timely solutions
- Developed service software tools that automated installation, configuration, and troubleshooting tasks
Farrington Associates
Software Engineer
- Developed desktop and web applications with C, HTML, JavaScript, and SQL databases to meet contract specifications