LEROUX L. LOTHIAN
Atlanta
Summary
Dynamic product leader with a proven track leveraging Agile methodologies and data-driven insights to enhance product strategies. Visionary leader with proven track record in steering organizations toward success through strategic planning and effective management. Skilled in building cohesive teams, driving innovation, and enhancing operational efficiency to achieve business objectives.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Co-Founder & COO
RithmDigital
09.2024 - Current
- Created a management team with experienced professionals to form an agency consulting firm offering services under Digital Marketing, Equity crowdfunding, Product Strategy, Business transformation for various industries
Director, Product Management
Goods & Services
NY
03.2019 - 09.2024
- Company Overview: NY, NY (Product Management & Consulting Services)
- Spearhead business exploration initiatives for a digital product and consulting firm
- Leverage strategic foresight to identify and capitalize on emerging opportunities
- Lead product strategy and management efforts, driving organizational growth for clients including J.P
- Morgan Asset Management, IEX, and Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
- Leveraged industry relationship to unveil marketing needs and business case for consulting engagement
- Nurture relationship through on-going check ins and continuous conversation and thought leadership
- Created product vision, scope definition, prioritize roadmap for new booking website
- Define the product vision, scope definition, prioritize roadmap based on value-driven metric across US & EMEA
- Influence direction and communicate creative, UI/UX changes with agency team and clients for consensus approval
- Lead new products such as Multiple Portfolio Comparison which influenced sales contributing to $1.2b AUM
- Guide product owners in crafting user stories, acceptance criteria, and organizing team documentation
- Manage team ceremonies, create and lead meetings with agendas for stakeholders, ensuring items are followed up
- Communicate to stakeholders, leadership, related LOBs the latest release, new features and upcoming enhancements
- Enhance customer engagement by 5% through the implementation of persistent login features
- Leverage in-house large language modeling AI tool to gather customer data to make data-driven decisions regarding feature prioritization
- Constructed the product vision and value proposition internally and externally and influenced senior leadership
- Created compelling presentations to communicate ideas and issues, transforming them into actionable objectives
- Developed and executed comprehensive go-to-market strategies that increased market share by 20% in the first year, while implementing feedback loops to optimize these strategies
- Leveraged customer insights and usage analytics to make informed decisions on upcoming roadmap items
- Led & mentored team of 2 agency product managers and 4 client product owners
- NY, NY (Product Management & Consulting Services)
Associate Director Product Manager & Design Principal
S&P Global IHSMarkit
NY
05.2015 - 03.2019
- Company Overview: NY, NY (Data & Fintech in Institutional Lending)
- Defined requirements and roadmaps, created & maintained the backlogs, epics, features & stories
- Consolidated data to implement technical aspects of a business solution, create graphic user interfaces and journeys
- Spearheaded product integration of an acquired loan platform to enable revenue increase of 25%
- Led and implemented the consolidation of Loan platforms into one UI and upgraded the look & feel
- Developed industry wire instructions that decreased trade settlement time 54% (from 12 to 5.5 days)
- Created workflow and digitized administrative documents which reduced sign-up time from 3 to 2 days
- Analyzed and built KYC for lenders, borrowers and agents & created procedural documents
- Streamlined onboarding for customers as a self-service sign-up for access to the loans trading platform
- Coordinated cross-functional team to execute implementation activities effectively
- NY, NY (Data & Fintech in Institutional Lending)
Sr. Product Manager / Sr. Business Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
NY
05.2014 - 05.2015
- Company Overview: NY, NY (PM Office assigned to AML)
- Implemented automation for KYC workflows; data size decreased 73% (753k records to 203k)
- Wrote Business Requirement Documents, documented change controls, justifications and impact
- Interfaced with clients to gather the stakeholder insights and requirements gathering via workshops
- Created product roadmaps to provide strategic insights on opportunities for future product iterations
- NY, NY (PM Office assigned to AML)
Product Manager
Freepoint Commodities
Stamford
05.2013 - 05.2014
- Improved operations by streamlining processes between departments and exchanges
- Evaluated broker process to create a future state, illustrated future functionality of the broker application
- Reconciled positions to mirror positions with ICE & CME and avoid loss to trader's PNL
- Monitored gateway connections, execute and troubleshoot failed trades by doing XML comparisons
Product Marketing Manager
AT&T
- Leading the launch and lifecycle activities for new products in showtime, EPIX, DirectTV and AT&T Uverse customers
- Defined functional requirements for wireless services and promotional activities
Education
MSc - Information Technology Management
University of Bridgeport
MBA - Finance
University of Bridgeport
BSc - International Business
University of Bridgeport
High School Diploma -
Hotchkiss High School
Skills
- Agile/Scrum
- Waterfall
- Google Analytics
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Asana
- AhaRoadmaps
- Sharepoint
- Pivotal Tracker
- Large Language Model AI
- API/Web Services
- CMS
- SQL
- HTML/CSS
- Shopify
- Magneto
- Salesforce (CRM)
- Adobe AEM
- Visio
- Pitch
- Monda
- Tableau
- Testflight
- Figma/Figjam
- Sketch
- Miro
- SurveyMonkey
- UserInterviews
- MS Teams
- Canva
Certification
- Executive Education in Product Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
- SAFE Agile Training
- SalesFore Data Cloud Badges
Interests Groups
- Wiskapp | www.wiskapp.com is a community based application for people, events and interests
- Black Product Managers | Product professionals career networking group
- National soccer representative U-17 and U-20
- Soccer coach U-9s to U-12 Boys and Girls
- Special Olympics soccer coach
Timeline
Co-Founder & COO
RithmDigital
09.2024 - Current
Director, Product Management
Goods & Services
03.2019 - 09.2024
Associate Director Product Manager & Design Principal
S&P Global IHSMarkit
05.2015 - 03.2019
Sr. Product Manager / Sr. Business Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
05.2014 - 05.2015
Product Manager
Freepoint Commodities
05.2013 - 05.2014
Product Marketing Manager
AT&T
MSc - Information Technology Management
University of Bridgeport
MBA - Finance
University of Bridgeport
BSc - International Business
University of Bridgeport
High School Diploma -
Hotchkiss High School
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