Lisa is exceptional, and working with her at Vesta as our VP of Product was an honor. I highly recommend her, and if I had a role for her, I would hire her back in a heartbeat. She left us for an amazing opportunity, but even her three years with us helped us make tremendous strides in our product.
Lisa has an incredible way of working with all types of individuals, understanding their needs, and communicating in a way that makes sense to the stakeholders: sales, marketing, developers, clients, management, and the board.
Lisa was instrumental in leading a high volume of features and enhancements to our product offering. She was tasked with working with some of our most challenging clients. And she led our API integrations, ensuring each feature was built with the future and innovation in mind.
Lisa can take very broad and complex ideas and break them into their simplest form so the dev team can deliver a very accurate estimate (both time and resources). She was methodical in her process, including sticking to a sprint schedule, delivering what was promised, and ensuring we were communicating with all stakeholders promptly. Her ability to ensure we have a GTM strategy with each feature we released was instrumental in ensuring adoption.
She makes every meeting better! Not only is she incredibly smart, she is personable, fun to work with, and always had us laughing. Lisa loves using analogies and they helped our stakeholders understand complex ideas.
I hope I have the chance to work with Lisa again. One of the best hires I ever made was hiring Lisa. She is truly a gem and one of a kind.
I worked with Lisa for a year as her direct report, and I'm better for it. Lisa brings an energy and enthusiasm to the room that instills a passion and sense of urgency to all who participate. She's a brilliant mind, an Excel genius (!!), exhibits a ferocious attention to detail and will dive to the depths of any problem to figure it out. She steps up when others fail to do so, filling vacuums and driving teams to success. She understands all aspects of a product management role, from requirements, epics and stories to documentation and training to relationship building and cross-functional rapport. I'm grateful to have spent a year on her team, and I would work with her again anytime anywhere. Thanks for everything, Lisa!
I have had the pleasure of working with Lisa for over a year here at RxSense. I would say she is an extraordinary professional whose energy and passion consistently amazed me everyday. I had the privilege of witnessing her outstanding leadership skills, unparalleled dedication, and unwavering enthusiasm. As Chief Product Officer at RxSense, Lisa made significant improvements to the product group and her proactive approach empowered the team to challenge the status quo. One of Lisa's remarkable contributions was her initiative to revamp the Product Groups intake process. She introduced new Product tools, enhancing the requirement gathering process. Lisa established strong partnership with Engineering team to solve multiple customer commitments. Lisa is a highly talented and result-driven professional who excels in her role as a leader.
I had the pleasure of working with Lisa for almost three years at Vesta. As head of marketing, we collaborated closely on GTM efforts to ensure the successful launch of a number of new features. Lisa is an exceptional leader and partner, laser-focused on the details, prescient about challenges, which she is always quick to resolve, passionate about the product, and committed to delivering on time. She is especially adept at liaising with all of the various stakeholders of a project, both internal teams as well as clients and vendors, translating technical details, needs, and restrictions in ways that lead to understanding and facilitate alignment. I have never met anyone as skilled at spinning up analogies to clarify complicated concepts, usually on the fly. Her inventive thinking led to unique approaches that elevated our platform. Lisa is also a positive, supportive, and enthusiastic colleague and it was common knowledge that she made every meeting better with her presence. Working with Lisa was one of the highlights of my experience at Vesta and I hope to have that pleasure again in the future.
My favorite thing about working with Lisa is that she knows how to cut through the nonsense and get stuff done! She's a clear communicator and makes sure all parties understand exactly what needs to be done and where the challenges are. I worked closely with Lisa on a total site rebuild/redesign and she managed every step of the process with efficiency and professionalism. She's a hard worker, focused and easy to collaborate with. She's calm and cool no matter what. On top of that, she's just a really great person to be around. I would gladly work with her again on any project.
Lisa is the consummate digital product lead. She manages to speak everyone’s language, from developers to various stakeholders to senior management, and to develop effective, elegant, and efficient solutions that satisfy competing interests without ever losing sight of the primacy of user experience. As Lisa’s internal client at Penton, I felt fortunate to have her to collaborate with and to learn from.
Lisa is the "Goo Gone" in any meeting, cutting through the muck and extraneous to the quick and illuminating the content of the subject under discussion, keeping things on topic and moving. She catches issues others do not, predicting user experience encounters and problems before they become major obstacles. She is the rare individual who can both increase efficiency across your organization and lend critical insight to processes ranging from entrenched to nascent and everything in-between. You want organizational strength in Product? Meet Lisa - the avatar of order.
Working with her on a number of projects has been a tremendous pleasure. I hope I have the fortune to do so again.
I believe there are five key traits of a leader and during my time working with Lisa at Penton Media, I saw her exhibit all five. She actively worked to shape and communicate a strategic vision and set of goals with her team even in an environment where they were not clear. Lisa always worked to secure the resources her team needs to achieve her goals. She also quickly and effectively handled any issues and roadblocks her team encountered. Lisa did an excellent job of reporting her team's results and was always an active cheerleader for their accomplishments while, at the same time, holding herself accountable for failures (which were rare). Finally, Lisa had genuine care for the success and well-being of her team.
Lisa is that valuable blend of product expert, strategic thinker and pragmatic solution finder. Where others often see nothing but obstacles, Lisa easily cuts to the root problem and has the solution. And she can comfortably explain it all in plain English to every level of the organization - from the most junior developer to the CEO. She's a great mentor to her teams and never gets flustered under even the tightest of deadlines.
Lisa is one of the most energetic producers I've ever worked with. Her passion and enthusiasm was felt the entire time I worked with her at Rodale. She's really dedicated to her craft and always finds the best and the most efficient route to take on any given project. I worked with her during the Prevention.com redesign of 08' among half a dozen interactive tools, where she demonstrated her stellar management style. Lisa would be an incredible asset to any organization.
I worked in the Higher Ed Media Group at John Wiley & Sons with Lisa for several years. She trained me when I first started, and was extremely knowledgeable and well organized. She was innovative,proactive, and efficient, in addition to being a great person to work with.
It is with pleasure that I recommend Lisa. She is a focused, logical, results-oriented individual with the lateral thinking skills which allow her to be flexible in her methodologies and unrivalled in her results. She has the kind of capability that makes her inspiring in the workplace, and her knowledge of digital, from the ins and outs of SEO to making analogue properties function beautifully online make her a formidable asset to any organization.
Lisa is one the most intelligent, hard-working, and dedicated people I've ever worked with. She scheduled projects with an efficient timeline and kept everyone to their deadlines. More importantly, she always came up with creative solutions that resolved any road block. Working together was truly enjoyable, the end product was always something we were proud of, and I credit both of those things to her leadership.
Lisa was a pleasure to work with while at Coldwell Banker. She was innovative, smart and always thought of new ways to solve a tough problem. Lisa was a hard worker and always wanted to work together with a team perspective.
As a vendor/colleague to Lisa at Prevention - I couldn't be more pleased with our relationship. "Good Communicator" is one characteristic which can't be emphasized enough. "Passionate" about her career and the tasks before her. It isn't uncommon to get an email from Lisa at 11PM about a project or idea. Can't speak highly enough about her ethics, integrity and dedication.
Hello,
It gives me great pleasure to recommend Ms. Schnettler for Director-level positions in project and product management in computer science, data science, and related technical fields.
I first met Ms. Schnettler during her interview to be a Director of Product at Graphika, Inc., where I have worked for the last eight years. My current position is Director of Graphika Labs, dealing with research and development at the cutting edge of network analytics, influencer discovery, and machine-learning enabled prediction of viral content. However, the fruits of my research would never find their way to a paying customer without a skilled Director of Product who could turn complex ideas into real-world-facing applications. In the time period 2016-2019, I saw Ms. Schnettler expertly handle the many challenges of the latter role.
Under Ms. Schnettler's leadership, Graphika's network analytics SaaS product grew into a powerful platform that our clients have leveraged to identify out key influencers in major industry verticals from car manufacturing to food and beverage to high technology. Unlike many social media products that simply confirm what the client already knows, our platform provided our clients with key intelligence on influencers in emerging markets, which they could subsequently use to develop novel advertising campaigns and vastly expand the reach of their brand. Ms. Schnettler was also instrumental in the productization of our viral content detector, the Contagion Monitor(tm). Ms. Schnettler supervised the design of a user-friendly interface for sharing specific predictions of emerging viral content based on the Contagion Monitor(tm) technology. Graphika has leveraged Ms. Schnettler's work to partner with a firm in the entertainment industry and successfully predict emerging musical artists, some nearly a year in advance.
In all cases, Ms. Schnettler led product development in two ways: one, by helping reduce the complex ideas underpinning our products into an easily understandable product design; and two, by working with our technology team to implement the design in a timely manner. On the design side, Ms. Schnettler created workflows and organizational practices for tying together research, product development, and technical requirements into one seamless practice. On the technology side, Ms. Schnettler worked alongside our Technology Director to implement an Agile system that handles constant competing priorities between new software development, testing, QA, and timely fixing of technical issues. Thanks to this system, Graphika, Inc. has met an ambitious development timeline in the years 2018-2019, which in turn has allowed the company to triple its revenue in the last financial year.
Ms. Schnettler would not have succeeded at these tasks without establishing supportive professional relationships with other Graphika employees. She is an excellent manager not only because of her technical competence, but also because she is approachable, thoughtful about her reports, and clear in presentation of any workplace issues that may arise. It was a pleasure to work with Ms. Schnettler these past three years, and I am confident she will be successful in her next professional role.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions about Ms. Schnettler's application.
Sincerely,
Vladimir Barash, Ph.D.
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