Brock Rowlands

Product Manager • Growth Product Manager • Product Analyst • Toronto, ON, CA

Mentoring

Collaboration

Strategy & Business Development

Entrepreneurship

Team Building

Management

Business Strategy

Strategic Planning

Competitive Analysis

Start-ups

Available for hire fromNegotiable

Full-Time Roles

Contracts

B2B Product Leader experienced in dealing with complex and struggling initiatives. Innovative thinker, great communicator, & team builder for products

Experienced B2B Product Leader with a passion for innovative, amazing and delightful product solutions that drive business value. With a background in product consulting and product management, I've communicated strategic product roadmaps, launch plans, and go to market strategies across all levels of the business. Building a product vision, clarifying must-haves and getting clarity on jobs-to-be-done are all techniques that I use to drive product success. I'm a great believer in driving results but working with a team to deliver exceptional success. I enjoy my espresso at home and am looking for upgrade recommendations to improve my coffee game.

Projects

Educational Travel Marketplace

Created a marketplace for travel providers to showcase educational travel trips and have teachers (and parents) review the travel details, manage travel information and book travel seamlessly with school board approvals. See More

Work History

Director of Product

TheAppLabbJan 2022 - Present • 2 yrs 10 mosLeading the Retail and eCommerce product management segment at TheAppLabb. Delivering innovative solutions for mobile applications (Objective-C, Swift, Java, Flutter, React Native), web sites, SaaS products, commerce platforms (Shopify, CommerceTools, others) and cloud based (AWS, Azure, Google, Digital Ocean) product offerings. Mentoring, growing and managing a remote first team of product owners & business analysts to be an extension of our client's product and technology efforts. Building product process and templates, clarifying unifying themes across projects and creating relationships across functions to deliver better value to client on product engagements. Driving value through team building, analytics, product vision and insights and conquering emerging technology challenges.

Fractional CPO (FCPO)

ConsultantJun 2020 - Present • 4 yrs 5 mosCreating a shared product vision, building product practices and leading product strategy Learn2 - Leadership as a Service building digital tools to help scale their offerings via remote interface as they transition from their in-person training model, including coaching, training and onboarding Esports Performance Academy - building a digital record and fitness map of players for holistic coaching insights and analytics Refuel Mobile - vehicle information platform building total cost of ownership, predictive fuelling and data partnerships Career Pilot - innovative SaaS solution promoting ED&I hiring practices and ATS capabilities Ingaged.ai - learning platform with deep analytics, AI focussed CHATGPT integration for SCORM conversion, and pattern based analysis and program insights

Education

Ryerson University

MBA, Technology and Innovation2006 - 2008

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