Experience

Get Lighthouse

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO / Co-founder / Head of Product

  • May 2014 - Present

  Lighthouse is on a mission to help more managers be great leaders every day, by focusing on the most important meeting you have with each of your team members: your 1 on 1. Unfortunately, Gallup's engagement data shows most people are disengaged at work. We know people leave managers, not companies, so it's on managers like you to change this and we're here to help make that happen. Our software keeps your 1 on 1s, team growth & goals, and key information about your people organized in one place. We also help you be consistent and accountable to what you and your team need to do to love your work and perform at a high level. We're helping managers all over the world by great at their jobs, from Silicon Valley to middle America, and around the world in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. If you're a manager, learn more and sign up for a free trial so we can help you, too here: http://getlighthouse.com Show less



Jason Evanish Consulting, LLC

• Global

• Product Leadership Consulting

  • Apr 2011 - Present

  Over the years, I've coached many product managers to help accelerate their careers and deliver great results. I've also helped companies from launch to iteration and the many challenges of high growth and scaling product organizations. What some founders and PMs have said about working with me: - "Our head of product has gotten a ton of value and has significantly matured as a product leader while working with Jason. I appreciate all the support and guidance he shared with him, and recommend anyone who wants to grow their product leaders to work with Jason." - Ruben Guerrero CEO & Co-Founder, Sproutfi (YC S21) - "Jason has coached me on customer development, communication, stakeholder management and countless other aspects of being a customer-driven product leader. Because of his coaching, I’ve become our platform lead, the senior manager of customer experience and was voted as company MVP. It’s clear that Jason has a learner’s mindset and is an expert on leadership, but above all, I’m constantly blown away by his ability to quickly understand my problems and his strong desire to help me learn and grow as a PM and person." - Mario Minnaert, Product Owner, Higher Learning Technologies You can learn more about my consulting and how I can help you at https://becustomerdriven.com Show less



Kissmetrics

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Product

  • Mar 2012 - Jun 2013

  I helped KISSmetrics build a great customer-focused product using Lean principles and a passion for customer happiness as our engineering team grew from 3 to 10, and our sales team grew from 1 to 10 while always hitting their goals. During my time running product we: - Rebuilt our Live feature to be the best debugging and real time activity view on the analytics market while doubling usage & eliminating support overhead. - Improved our onboarding conversion rate by 68% through many A/B testing experiments. - Overhauled our People Search & details feature, the core of the KISSmetrics, people-driven tracking system. - Helped conceptualize, design, prototype and manage the early release of our Google Analytics iPhone app, MyAnalytics. - Identified our most profitable customer segments by leveraging our analytics and customer development interviews. Helped align sales, marketing and product to best attract, close and serve them within the product. - Developed and handed off to sales a Power Report upsell program, taking customers from small plans to enterprise level plans ($99/mo to 499+/mo). - Overhauled our Daily Metrics Email based on customer feedback, which improved adoption and open rates. - Led R&D to piloting of a SaaS Revenue Report to help companies calculate the most important metrics for a SaaS business (churn, MRR, LTV, etc). Prior to developing the report, I helped calculate KISSmetric's SaaS KPIs and extensively researched the various methods. I evolved our product processes as we grew from 14 to 34 employees, and formed and led a cross functional team that wrote our company values in the Summer of 2012. Most importantly, I built a customer driven culture throughout the product team and company through development and utilization of new and existing channels to connect with customers as well as our sales, marketing, and support teams. I taught team members customer development tactics, and used data and the voice of the customer at every opportunity. Show less



Greenhorn Connect

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Oct 2009 - Mar 2012

  Greenhorn Connect was acquired by The Capital Network on August 4, 2014. I co-founded GreenhornConnect.com in October 2009 with Ashkan Afkhami to help the Boston startup community and its visitors find the resources, events and other content the vibrant ecosystem has to offer. At the start I hustled to do everything necessary to get us off the ground: marketing of the site through social channels and blogging, building relationships for key sponsors, forming partnerships with other tech supporting organizations, event organizing, legal formation and contracts, and of course, product management for the building and maintenance of the site with contract developers. Within 6 months of launch, we had created a profitable business model where none thought possible by leveraging multiple revenue streams that allowed me to hire other team members to help with many of those tasks. I'm proud to say that we've helped many team members jump start their career by giving them a shot to do new things, growing their visibility in the community and coaching them to develop the skills they want and need to succeed in their careers. In March 2012, I moved to San Francisco to run Product at KISSmetrics and handed the reigns to Paul Hlatky, who then served as Executive Director of Greenhorn Connect, while I handled financial and legal responsibilities remotely. In August 2014, I secured the future of Greenhorn Connect by negotiating an acquisition by The Capital Network (TCN). I stepped back fully at that time to focus on my new startup, Get Lighthouse. Read more: http://jasonevanish.com/2014/08/04/to-new-beginnings-tcn-acquires-greenhorn-connect/ http://www.thecapitalnetwork.org/greenhorn-connect-is-now-powered-by-the-capital-network/ http://betaboston.com/innovation-economy/2014/08/04/the-capital-network-adopts-greenhorn-connect-student-focused-networking-organization/ Show less



oneforty

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Product Manager

  • Apr 2010 - Apr 2011

  oneforty was the app store for Twitter. It was acquired by HubSpot in August 2011. I reported to our VP of Product, Jeremy Crane, to inform product decisions by owning company metrics, app developer relations, and regularly interviewing customers on both sides of our app marketplace. In my role: - Led exploration of new business opportunities and development of specific product offerings to targeted customers as we performed extensive Customer Discovery then Customer Development to develop a viable business model for oneforty. - Created metrics dashboard for in depth measurement of site activity and evaluation of new features - Performed customer development interviews with hundreds of users, brands, experts and tool/app companies (in person & via phone) and brought trends and patterns to the team for product decision making. - Developed early affiliates program for app/tool lead gen on oneforty - Created & shared with full team "unforty" presentation, an overall plan for how oneforty's current offerings could be altered to fit our business pivot. - Hired and then collaborated closely with our community manager, Janet Aronica. Show less



Value Media Inc

• Product Research Intern

  • Oct 2009 - Jan 2010

  Value Media, Inc. creates web based products for bloggers and in consumer finance. I performed research and customer development for these products. My main focus was on helping test a new product, Gutenblog, for financial bloggers. Unfortunately, after numerous customer interviews, we concluded there was not sufficient interest in the product to continue with it. Value Media, Inc. creates web based products for bloggers and in consumer finance. I performed research and customer development for these products. My main focus was on helping test a new product, Gutenblog, for financial bloggers. Unfortunately, after numerous customer interviews, we concluded there was not sufficient interest in the product to continue with it.



E Ink Corporation

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Operations/Inventory Management part-time employee

  • Sep 2008 - Jul 2009

  I worked in this role while attending Northeastern University's Masters in Technological Entrepreneurship program full time. * Managing inventory transactions for contract manufacturers through Industrios system * Assist in generating BOM for various components, managing inventory maintenance with contractors monthly and quarterly, and generating purchase orders to maintain necessary inventories at contract manufacturers

• Electrical Engineering Intern

  • May 2008 - Aug 2008

  * Assisted electrical engineering team in assembling and testing hardware assemblies * Tested and reported on performance of prototype hardware, logged bugs/malfunctions and tracked resolutions * Investigated potential causes for variations in display panel performances and formally reported findings * Gathered and assembled data for E-Ink inventory system and BOM creation



Analog Devices

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Etch Process Engineering Co-op

  • Jul 2007 - Dec 2007

  * Worked in level 100 Clean Room running various etch tools, microscopes and measurement devices * Used Excel and Spotfire programs to evaluate etch rates, tool performances, and determine root causes of problems/failures using a variety of data sources and methods * Analyzed % uniformity, trim yields, failure rates, electrical test results with graphs, box plots, charts, etc * Created and presented Major Presentation: “Fab Influences on Critical Dimensions” demonstrating problem discoveries, evaluations, cause finding and short/long-term resolutions Show less