Bracha Tenenbaum, Product Manager in Missoula, MT, United States
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Bracha Tenenbaum

Verified Expert  in Product Management

Product Manager

Location
Missoula, MT, United States
Toptal Member Since
May 6, 2022

Bracha has 6+ years of experience identifying business opportunities, developing product strategies, leading development, and launching projects that move the needle. Though she has a strong affinity for product research and design, she enjoys all the aspects of the product lifecycle. Bracha excels in building and managing successful teams, blending solid product management and product design skills with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sketch, GitHub, Zenhub, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop expertise.

Project Highlights

Multi-Stage Review Process
Led the product strategy and design of a feature that allowed multiple custom review processes for a single submission.
Advanced Reporting
Led the product strategy and design of a robust reporting tool.
Media Gallery
Led the design and development of a media gallery that allows users to view, filter, and sort media content and vote on their favorite submissions.

Expertise

Work Experience

Director of Solutions Engineering

2020 - 2021
Submittable
  • Built and managed a solutions engineering team. The team increased sales by 30% in its first quarter.
  • Led the development of an internal demo environment, which decreased demo preparation time by 50%.
  • Established a formal feedback loop between sales and product.
  • Assisted senior executives in identifying key feature requirements and prioritizing the product roadmap.

Product Manager

2016 - 2020
Submittable
  • Led the modernization of the company's core platform and saw a 40% increase in development productivity and a 20% increase in customer satisfaction.
  • Released key features that increased sales by 350% over four years to bring the company to 10 million in revenue.
  • Implemented a UX testing process before releasing new products.

Multi-Stage Review Process

Led the product strategy and design of a feature that allowed multiple custom review processes for a single submission.

Submittable is a software used by thousands of organizations to build customized online submission and application forms, as well as to review submissions and communicate with submitters.

The multi-stage review feature made it possible for an organization to have multiple rounds of review for different people or teams. The review stages included custom review criteria and could be assigned to different people for review. Every aspect of this product was customizable, from the number of stages per review workflow to the review questions and criteria. Users could add weighted questions to the review form and hide the submitter's name and other information from reviewers to remove bias.

This feature was highly complex because it touched every aspect of the platform. It was a considerable effort, and it is one of the features that I am most proud of because of its huge and positive impact on our customers.

Advanced Reporting

Led the product strategy and design of a robust reporting tool.

Submittable is a software used by thousands of organizations to build customized online submission and application forms, as well as to review submissions and communicate with submitters.

The advanced reporting product is an in-app consolidated data center that can run reports to analyze data, identify insights and trends, create charts, and measure an organization's impact and results.

Many organizations needed a way to run reports on programs they execute and compare data from month to month or year to year. To accomplish this effectively, I prioritized a data visualization tool that allowed our users to quickly and easily build graphs on the platform with the ability to save and export them if needed. The product also allows users to run calculations and save views updated in real-time.

The advanced reporting product is one of the more complex products I have built since we needed to license aspects from a third party and embed them into the platform for a seamless user experience.

Media Gallery

Led the design and development of a media gallery that allows users to view, filter, and sort media content and vote on their favorite submissions.

Submittable is a software used by thousands of organizations to build customized online submission and application forms, as well as to review submissions and communicate with submitters.

The media gallery product was used by media companies and organizations that wanted a way for the public to be part of the review process and vote on media submissions. For example, a photography contest could be held via the media gallery as a way for a company to gather user-generated content. Contestants could upload their photos to a form that would then be displayed on a public page alongside all the other contestants' photos for anyone to vote on.

One feature that made this product especially powerful and versatile was the ability to filter media submissions by the submitter's response to a question on the submission form. For example, if I was a contestant, I could upload a photograph and select my genre from a dropdown, say "landscapes." The same genre options would be available on the media gallery for users to filter by. Companies using this product could decide what single or multi-select questions to add as filters to their media gallery from their submission form.
2010 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy

Columbia University - New York, NY, USA

Tools

Slack, Jira, Zapier, Sketch, Adobe InDesign, Git

Industry Expertise

Nonprofits

Paradigms

Agile Project Management, Scrum, Manual Testing, Agile Product Management, Agile, Design Thinking, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns

Other

Client Relations, Communication, Presentations, Product Owner, User Research, Product Roadmaps, SaaS, Startups, Quality Assurance (QA), User Stories, Agile Sprints, Operations, Project Management, Software, Process Documentation, Critical Thinking, Writing & Editing, Creative Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Creative Strategy, Creative Solutions, New Products, Productivity, Management, Product Sales, Consulting, Grants, Customer Analysis, Customer Success, Process Execution, Teamwork, Product Management, Data Reporting, Market Research & Analysis, Market Research, Competition Research, Competitive Intelligence, Benchmarking, Market Research Analyst, Business Analysis, Technical Requirements, Business Requirements, Product Leadership, Offshore Team Management, User Experience (UX), Product Strategy, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Data Analytics, IT Consulting, Art, Feature Analysis, Training, Value Analysis, Software Consulting, CRM Systems, APIs, JSON, Databases, Agile Leadership, Lean, Mobile Apps, Technical Product Management, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Edtech Design, User Interface (UI), New Product Development, Vendor Management, Process Design, Email, Creative Design, Design, UX Design, Sales, Salesforce, Release Management, Product Growth, Adobe Photoshop, Mobile, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Production, Process Flows, Migration, Creativity, Collaboration, Organization, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Solutioning, Solution Design, Business Solutions, Digital Solutions, Web API, AI Design, Desktop App Design, Analysis, UX Thinking, Product Thinking, Systems Thinking, Customer Service, Customer Support, Custom Solutions, Customer Research, Customer Journeys, Customer Discovery, Customer Insights, Customer Engagement, User Feedback, Data Analysis, Data, HubSpot CRM, SQL, iOS

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