Nkem Nwankwo

Vice President of Product Management

Greenhouse Software

May 2026 - Current (5 months)

Senior Director of Product Management

Greenhouse Software

May 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

- Led the Emerging Business portfolio strategy across AI, Ecosystem, and MyGreenhouse
authoring the unified 2026 strategy and pillars to guide growth and execution.
- Scaled MyGreenhouse from an experiment to a candidate hub reaching 1.6M+ users and
~600k MAU by Q4.
- Drove org design and resourcing: authored the 2025 reorg narrative, mapped team
transitions, and facilitated H2 resourcing workshops to align capacity with portfolio priorities.
- Drove external thought leadership with high‑visibility speaking engagements including HR
Tech, HR Technologies UK, and a variety of webinars, amplifying Greenhouse’s AI roadmap
and enterprise credibility.

Author & Blogger

After School Is Getting an MBA Really Worth It

Aug 2016 - Current (10 years 2 months)

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Group Product Manager

Greenhouse Software

Jul 2022 - May 2025 (2 years 11 months)

- Manages Ecosystem Product Domain which owns over 520 integrations used by $185M in
customer ARR.
- Authored and executed Ecosystem Domain strategy comprised of cleaning partner integration
data, raising partner integration tracking capability, upgrading API capabilities, introducing
new and improved authentication, laying out monetizing mechanisms that piggybacked off of
these improvements, and creating first-party integrations to help fund these foundational
efforts.
- Revitalized Greenhouse’s Applied Machine Learning team in Nov 2024, authored and secured
approval for the 2025 AI strategy, and assumed AI Program Manager role; launched 6 AI
features in Q1 2025 with 14% adoption to date.
-

Group Product Manager

Attentive

Aug 2021 - Jun 2022 (11 months)

- Manages 4 product managers driving the product direction for Attentive's App Marketplace
(Over 70 integrations, Developer experience, APIs, connected to over $200M in Gross New
Bookings value)
- Leads the Marketplace and Integrations company initiative, driving strategic direct across
product, engineering, partnerships, sales, and customer success resulting in a 45% increase in signed customers launching in integrations 2021Q1 to 2022Q1

Advisor

Guzo

Dec 2020 - Aug 2022 (1 year 9 months)

Lead Product Manager

Attentive

Dec 2020 - Aug 2021 (9 months)

- Led product for 3 integrations teams, creating and maintaining integrations that over $116M
of Gross New Bookings connected to in 2021, up from $64M in 2020
- Overhauled Attentive integration UX resulting in a 15% higher connection rate for renovated
integrations

Mentor

Techstars

Jan 2020 - Mar 2022 (2 years 3 months)

Senior Product Manager - Partnerships, Integrations, APIs

Calendly

Jun 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 7 months)

- Created strategic and tactical direction for the Calendly ecosystem as the product leader, setting the tone for the next year of whole product effort
- Managed and maintained a suite of integrations that were used by more than 40% of Calendly's MAUs increasing their average customer lifetime value by $45M collectively
- Guided the cross-functional Integration and API Platform squads to multiple impactful
releases, resulting in a 2019 Top Performer Award
- Delivered native Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, Facebook Pixel, and Mailchimp integrations with over 18,000 company installations within 1 month
- Drove the creation of Calendly's new API and developer portal with an emphasis on a robust, flexible architecture
-

Senior Product Manager

BetterCloud

Feb 2018 - May 2019 (1 year 4 months)

- Pitched, planned, and delivered BetterCloud Content Scanning feature successfully after
running customer Beta program with a 72% adoption rate
- Devised product roadmap strategy for BetterCloud Data Protection module after
assembling proposal consis
- Delivered a number of vision setting roadmap presentations at customer and company wide
conferences
- Led product implementation of Okta API integration across 4 engineering teams targeted
for Oktane 2018 event release resulting in on time release and 40+ customer connections
within a month
- Organized customer discovery for integration by interviewing over 15 target customers and
synthesizing feedback into prioritized themes in addition to a

Product Manager

BetterCloud

Apr 2017 - Jan 2018 (10 months)

- Led product direction for four agile software teams resulting in over 40 major production releases in first 6 months and enabling sales to triple ARPA on new platform
- Created strategic roadmap for API ingestion, visualization, and reporting, standardizing the output of 9 different enterprise SaaS APIs
- Triaged over 100 feature requests from Sales, Customer Success, Customer Support, Management, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Finance to reveal what customers need
- Coordinated regular meetings between customer facing teams and engineering to spread customer and product knowledge
- Performed product demos and creates demo scripts to ensure value proposition is delivered
- Created product analytic dashboards

Tutor

Nurturing Wisdom Tutoring

Oct 2015 - Jul 2016 (10 months)

- I tutor students to get them ready to take the ACT because I'm cool like that :)

Product Manager

Litera

Feb 2015 - Apr 2017 (2 years 3 months)

- Heads the product and user base merger of Contract Companion and XRef after corporate acquisition
- Led the 2nd major release of Patent Companion from feature ideation to product distribution by leading sprint and release planning, creating sales education certifications, collaborating with marketing and advertising, and assisting support team in creating materials
- Interviews prospective customers to extract vision and inspiration for a major release of a legal product with 10,000 users
- Facilitates discussion and execution of work between development, marketing, customer service, sales, and management for the delivery of software solutions
- Leads sprint planning and backlog grooming for development
- Creates

Product Manager Intern

Sling Media

Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 (3 months)

- Created in-depth feature analysis dashboards (Tableau/Flurry/Amazon Redshift) for the iPad, iPhone, Android Tablet, and Android Phone tracking over 340K active monthly users
- Quantified and classified individual customer service call records to identify user pain points and design a new in-app troubleshooting interface across the four retail apps increasing customer satisfaction and app store ratings
- Redesigned user feedback portal flow to make customer feedback more quantifiable and easier to analyze for future use
- Conceived and developed engineering key performance indicators to enable close monitoring of app performance and improvements

Student Consultant

Genentech

Mar 2014 - Apr 2014 (2 months)

- Analyzed the 4 year competitive landscape of the chronic lymphocytic leukemia market in search of key competitor strategies and tactics
- Provided strategic and tactical recommendations drawn from the analysis of a number of analogs both inside and outside the pharmaceutical industry

Product Manager

John Deere

Jan 2012 - Jun 2013 (1 year 6 months)

- Managed software development by collaborating with marketing, engineering, and management to produce a variety of product enhancements helping Deere pass 2012 shareholder equity goals by 190%
- Defined and prioritized product delivery for an India-based team of 8 which produced essential mid year software updates to Deere's 2012 proprietary operating system
- Instituted software team version control for over 50 engineers after gaining consensus on direction. This enabled teams to efficiently produce features for the 2011 - 2017 product deliveries
- Conceived and implemented team restructure based on individual strengths and preferences, improving workflow and resulting in on-time delivery for 6 months

Software Engineer

John Deere

Nov 2010 - Jan 2012 (1 year 3 months)

- Gathered, defined, and implemented early features for automated test software used in over 5 platforms across enterprise, increasing the software reliability for John Deere's embedded systems
- Analyzed critical software defects to determine root cause on combine electrical systems including systems which increased product sales in France for 2012, enabling Deere to generate $40M in revenue

Engineering Development Program Engineer - Marketing Rotation

John Deere

May 2010 - Nov 2010 (7 months)

- Coordinated enterprise trade show exhibiting future products as part of marketing and branding initiative, creating awareness for future products for an audience of 200,000
- Created an enterprise-wide macro-enabled SharePoint solution that streamlined event registration removing a critical bottleneck in Marketing Services

Product Development Intern

John Deere

May 2009 - Aug 2009 (4 months)

- Tested analog electrical components for a next generation autonomous lawn mower
- Designed a circuit and wire harness for a GPS and CAN data logger used in field testing

Intern

Pardot

May 2007 - Aug 2007 (4 months)

- Member of development team for new management software
- Coded in PHP, AJAX, and HTML to create the graphical interface
- Tested various modules within the software
- Created interfaces that interact with various email client APIs

Intern

Microsoft

May 2006 - Aug 2006 (4 months)

- Developed one of the first Windows Mobile gadgets for the sidebar
- Coded program that interacted with the Windows Mobile API
- Created gadget that monitored cell phone statuses on the desktop, while also having the ability to send and receive text messages through the desktop

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