Rachel Dowling

Advisor and Investor

Various Startups

Jun 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)

Advisor to CEOs on Product strategy and GTM. Angel investor in startups across FoodTech, Clean Tech, Energy, Healthcare, AI, and SaaS.

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Founder, CEO, CPO

Apr 2021 - Current (5 years 6 months)

Cofounder of AI startup, Equal Time. Equal Time is a conversational intelligence tool for Zoom, MSTeams and Google Meet. Equal Time helps you have more efficient, inclusive, and inspiring conversations. (www.equaltime.io)
• Product: Strategic Vision, Product Planning, Agile Product Delivery, Product Management (Roadmap, Customer Research, AB Testing), Product Marketing (SEO, Email, Social, PR). Qualitative skills for product and market analysis
• People Management: Recruiting, Hiring, Training, and Coaching team
• Other Functions: Sales, Fundraising, Marketing, Customer Success, Legal, Finance

Vice President of Product

TrustYou

May 2019 - Nov 2021 (2 years 7 months)

• Product Strategy and Product Portfolio Roadmap Management: Responsible for leading overall company portfolio product strategy and roadmap alignment across 10 product teams (70+ Engineers, PMs, Designers, BI) to achieve the company’s strategic goals. Led the launch of new product lines and sunset underperforming products.
• People Management: Recruited, managed, and coached a globally distributed team of high-performing Directors of Product, Product Managers, Head of UX, Designers, and Data Analysts. Fostered an inclusive, empowering and collaborative environment.
• AI / NLP / ML: Led product strategy for advanced natural language processing, data pipeline upgrades, and streaming services that improved execution speed by 200%. Le

Senior PM / Group Product Manager

Study.com

Feb 2015 - Jan 2019 (4 years)

I led the B2C Teacher's business vertical and grew it to $12M ARR for a site with 30M+ monthly unique visitors.
• People Management: Mentored Junior PMs, Large Scale Scrum (LESS) leader
• Product Planning: Competitor and market analysis, Custer research and need-finding, Cross team alignment, KPI setting
• Agile Development: Certified Scrum Product Owner, Wrote user stories, acceptance criteria, and planned sprints. Led webapp, iOS and Android apps.
• Product Management: Data-first AB testing, forecasting, reporting, Customer segmentation, Qualitative research, Growth testing, Conversion funnel testing
• Product Marketing: Price testing for LTV and gross revenue optimization, Go to Market Product Marketing, SEO stra

Product Manager

SHMOOP

Sep 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 6 months)

• Agile Product Owner for a site with 10M+ unique monthly visitors
• Managed display advertising and affiliate partnerships monetization
• Led a team of 8 designers and engineers to launch Learning Games, Test Prep, Remedial Courses, and Career Research
• Coordinated with Content, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service on release

Product Manager

TCI (Teachers' Curriculum Institute)

Mar 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year 7 months)

• Agile Product Owner for education subscription accompanying social studies and science textbooks. - Product Managed e-commerce textbook webstore.
• Developed internal operations and fulfillment tools for finance, and operations teams to process and handle print and online subscription orders for Online Education products
• Collaborated with business, design, engineering, and sales to define, test, and build new features, fix bugs, and iterate on an online Social Studies K-12 curriculum

Product Analyst

Gooru

Jun 2011 - Mar 2012 (10 months)

• Product analysis, research partnership collaboration, and competitor analyses
• Project management, marketing, partner development & research design

Fellow

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Jun 2010 - Aug 2010 (3 months)

Program Coordinator

Stanford University

Jan 2007 - Jan 2010 (3 years 1 month)

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