Samira Sohail
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Santa Monica, California, United States
Samira Sohail
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Roles available for:
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Fractional
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Consulting
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Contract
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Interim
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Santa Monica, California, United States
Experience
Fractional role
Strengths in this role: - Strategy creation - Hiring, leadership and management of team - Problem solving
Industry Group: High Tech
Industry: Computer Software
Years of experience: 5 years
Company name: College Tuition Benefits
Company size: 30 employees
Role in this company: Incepted a new digital business line and built MVP product for a new startup idea. Hired a remote team of 12 to create a business case, design MVP and implement build over 6 month period. Built beta product that enabled Aevium (a university rewards program) to raise its $1.5m venture-backed seed round.
Strengths in this role: - Leadership of the team, and complete accountability across for a domain of products, able to be relied on to operate autonomously, yet in alignment with the entire organization • Thought-leadership organizationally, being a champion for the team, advocating new points-of-view for how things should evolve, when and where to evolve. • Accountable for quarterly planning across domains, solving for priority conflicts, and advocating for balance of value to business and to our users
Industry Group: Education
Industry: E-Learning
Years of experience: 1 year
Company name: Newsela
Company size: 250 employees
Role in this company: - Launched an essential K-12 curriculum product during COVID-19 pandemic that served 90% of US students, resulting in 4x product engagement in first month and contributed to company growth to one of twenty edtech unicorns - Created new content subscription product and tiering that increased company revenue by 44% over 2018-2019 year - Hired 20+ talent for cross-functional product teams, upgraded junior product manager hiring and training
Strengths in this role: -Creative problem solving skills with experience analysing data, identifying market opportunities, engaging multi-disciplinary teams to develop and implement recommendations to action in an entrepreneurial environment for the BBC’s digital, television and radio services across all levels of management, including Board level. -Shape service life journeys from inception to launch and growth (or death) for BBC’s digital services including establishing market opportunity, user goal prioritisation
Industry Group: Media
Industry: Broadcast Media
Years of experience: 5 years
Company name: BBC
Company size: 20,000 employees
Role in this company: - Drove growth and device syndication in digital products inc. BBC News, iPlayer and Sport, reaching 63% of UK population, weekly and world’s most visited news site. Worked with exec level, UK government and C-suite industry. - Launched new genre products- BBC Olympics during London 2012 (5m/day), BBC Sounds (1m/mth) and BBC Earth
