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Lindsay Matthews

Lindsay Matthews

Senior Product Manager
Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Summary

Customer centric, analytical & highly strategic Digital, Product & UX Consultant with 10 years+ experience helping brands launch & elevate their digital presence to create outstanding customer experiences globally & drive top-line revenue growth.

  • 10+ years in Digital Strategy, Product Management & Research roles across UK, USA, Europe & Middle East
  • e-Commerce, Mobile, Global markets, B2B & B2C
  • Agile, both Scrum & Kanban methodologies
  • Worked within cross-functional teams and managed multiple projects at one time
  • Holistic understanding across commercial business, marketing, tech & creative
  • Strong understanding of CX, UX/UI design & software testing ability
  • Adopted lead roles in Analytics & CRO - (A/B & MVT testing)
  • Certified Coach & Mentored Associate Digital Product Managers
  • Led in teams within management roles & worked with C-suite

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Manager

Freelance
Dubai, UAE
10.2022 - Current
  • Defined product market-fit & launched mobile app (from concept to app store) in less than 16 weeks
  • Generated pre-launch revenue $ for mobile app product
  • Improved lead generation:185% by re-designing landing page
  • Curated brand, marketing & GTM strategy for start-up
  • Prioritised roadmap in order to achieve product goals & metrics
  • Conducted extensive UX & competitor research
  • Uncovered untapped opportunities to increase revenue growth
  • Drive innovation by fueling exchange of fresh ideas and concepts

Product Strategist & Research Consultant

Majid Al Futtaim (SHARE)
Dubai, UAE
10.2021 - 09.2022
  • Led on a highly-strategic CX & Innovation discovery project
  • Estalablised product market-fit using for VIP loyalty brand (customers spending over 1MAED annually)
  • Consulted in collaboration with CX research agency (in Milan)
  • Conducted research across 100s of users to ensure customer-centric approach when creating digital loyalty brand
  • Defined product requirements & developed PRD for tech team to take the loyalty mobile app into development phase
  • Developed short & long term digital roadmaps aligned with strategic pillars, user needs & business goals
  • Managed C-suite stakeholders & a high number of business units including (Carrefour, Ski Dubai, Lulu Lemon etc) throughout the discovery phase

Senior Product Manager

Al-Futtaim
, Dubai
02.2021 - 10.2024
  • Defined launch strategy for online marketplace
  • Defined product market fit for new mobile app alongside UX research agency
  • Consulted with off-shore design & development team to ensure mobile first & app user stories are developed
  • Curated roadmap using product, market and customer data and ensuring a strong ROI
  • Creating customer journeys for WhatsApp bot solution
  • Mentored & led a Product Manager Associate

Product Manager (Freelancer)

Digital of Things
, Dubai
12.2020 - 02.2021
  • Consulted UAE leading retail brand in defining digital GTM strategy
  • Led as Product & Scrum Master whilst developing e-commerce (marketplace) website & mobile app
  • Developed & rolled out Agile processes, resulting in to increase of workload velocity
  • Consulted for CX strategy across website & app
  • Applied customer-first strategy to brand strategy, product development and marketing materials.

Digital Product & Optimisation Manager

RSA
, Dubai
01.2018 - 10.2020

(1yr London, 2yrs Middle East)

Analysed customer behavior to derive digital product performance insights and identify areas of potential improvement, producing:

  • Increased online ‘Quote to sale' conversion by 100% within first three months of launching new platform
  • 30% increase in add-on sales (A/B test)
  • Visit to quote increase by 28% on mobile in first 4 months
  • 8M UVs in UK, 2M in Middle East
  • Launched partnerships including SALIK / CAFU
  • Reduction in contact centre enquires due to digital approach
  • Implemented live chat, goals achieved for first 4 months
  • Successful rollout of KSA market include web / mobile platform
  • Successful Adobe analytics & CRO implementation / migration
  • Set up ‘Agile' way of working within UAE region
  • Co-owning the P&L for Middle East region

Global E-Commerce Product Lead

Sunsail
, London
11.2015 - 11.2017
  • Increased holiday search rate by 30%
  • 18% improvement in save quote conversion (lead gen)
  • Ownership of 8 e-Commerce websites
  • Owned domains across US, AU, Europe & UK (4m UV)
  • Successful rollout of new mobile platform across 2 markets
  • Built a new e-Commerce team of 3 (Analyst, CRO & Merchandiser
  • Slashed digital expenses by £150,000 through cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems

Product Executive (UK&I)

TUI
, London
05.2013 - 10.2015
  • Owned the product backlog & roadmap for B2C & B2B websites (20M UVs per year) across multiple websites in UK & Ireland
  • Support Head of E-commerce during key / large projects
  • Source requirements & usability struggles from travel agents to support change on B2B platforms leading to increased conversion & revenue
  • Key sales were driven by charter holiday packages & ancillaries

Education

GSCE -

Cheam High School
London
09.2002 - 06.2007

Skills

Team Management

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Software

Google Analytics

Adobe Analytics & Target

Qubit

JIRA

Trello

Asana

HotJar

Figma

Typeform

Olark

Hubspot

Shopify

Miro

Microsoft office

Slack

Accomplishments

  • Volunteered for DSUK in 2011 & 2014
  • Volunteered in Uganda to support building a school in 2022
  • Completed London - Brighton Cycle and raised £700 for BHF UK
  • Awarded employee of the month out of 30 people
  • Completed a 20 week beginner Spanish course
  • Qualified as a Certified Holistic Health Nutritionist in 2021
  • Qualifited as a Brain Performance Coach with Dr. Amen in 2022

Interests

English (Mother-tongue)

Additional Information

References available upon request

Timeline

Senior Product Manager

Freelance
10.2022 - Current

Product Strategist & Research Consultant

Majid Al Futtaim (SHARE)
10.2021 - 09.2022

Senior Product Manager

Al-Futtaim
02.2021 - 10.2024

Product Manager (Freelancer)

Digital of Things
12.2020 - 02.2021

Digital Product & Optimisation Manager

RSA
01.2018 - 10.2020

Global E-Commerce Product Lead

Sunsail
11.2015 - 11.2017

Product Executive (UK&I)

TUI
05.2013 - 10.2015

GSCE -

Cheam High School
09.2002 - 06.2007
Lindsay MatthewsSenior Product Manager