Meet your new Product Manager

You're looking for a new product manager. You posted an opening and now you're drowning in irrelevant applications. The good news is you just found who you've been looking for.

Scott Schwartz brings years of experience from companies big and small. He's well-versed in engaging with customers to understand their challenges, and fruitfully collaborating with Sales and Engineering to craft solutions that create value.

As a manager of teams he knows how to develop talent, set clear goals, and be a servant-leader to help them succeed.

An engineering background you can leverage

With 20 years of experience in front-end and back-end technologies, system architecture, and translating business needs into requirements, Scott can engage with your engineering team effectively, minimizing surprises and keeping deliverables on track.

  • Ruby, Python, Java, Groovy, PHP, Javascript
  • Rails, Django, Spring Boot, Grails, Express
  • MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres, Vertica
  • API design & documentation
  • Practiced in engineering collaboratively with various AI models
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A head for business

Customers don't buy features, they buy solutions to their problems. Good product decisions are the result of diving deep into what customers are struggling with and delivering relief.

  • Practiced in customer interviewing and competitive analysis
  • Experienced in setting product vision and strategy, designing roadmaps, and writing requirements.
  • Skilled at data-driven decision making and conducting A/B tests.

Projects that deliver. Solutions that scale.

Scott's projects produce demonstrable improvement to clients' KPIs.

$270K

in solar project investments managed in a system designed and coded by Scott

96K event-days

staffed through a freelancer marketplace platform Scott designed and built for corporate event planners.

40K support tickets

eliminated annually from an internal self-service platform that allowed account managers to safely make configuration changes to customer accounts

25MM creatives

reviewed annually by a global Content Safety team, incorporating machine learning, rules-based decisioning, and prioritization factors

1 hour

Reduced time-to-close for new customers from several days to one hour, through the combination of an instant demo tool and API integrations with e-signature and payment vendors.

18x increase

in account analysis decks produced for advertisers, a value-add service to demonstrate the company's commitment to customers' success

$7.5MM USD

in liabilities eliminated through automating credit limit adjustments to customer budgets

245K

articles promoted via a news app via an editorial curation tool designed by Scott

"You have a great ability to see and hear what challenges others are facing, and delivering rabbits from hats to remove those problems. I'd welcome you on my team again any day of the week."

Michael Gifis
Michael Gifis
Acting CRO | Sr. Advisor @ BOMESI

"You always had your finger on the pulse of the organization and contributed so much to so many people's day-to-day. Being able to work on a project together towards the end of my tenure at Taboola was a genuine highlight of my 7 years there."

Sean Surdovel
Sean Surdovel
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cint

"Scott you were instrumental in building so much for our teams during my time at Taboola. You're extremely talented."

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Graeme Fouste
Client Partner, Financial Services, Meta

"How many world-class engineers are also rockstar communicators? Still remember many of our 1:1 chats fondly, and can't recommend Scott highly enough as a supportive manager of high-performing teams.

Carl Bauml
Carl Bauml
VP, Agency Partnerships, Nativo

Frequently asked questions

Originally a journalist and editor, Scott jumped on the web early on, teaching himself web development long before the existence of boot camps. Working at a number of startups with limited resources Scott had to master front-end design, back-end design, databases, and APIs, as well as product management, customer success, and support.

Today Scott leverages all of that experience building systems and interacting with customers to help scaling startups succeed.

Fast-acting pain relief starts here.

Learn how Scott can help you get unstuck.

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