Gavin Matthews
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Gavin is a product-led growth-oriented product manager with experience in security, privacy, identity, and media and management platforms. He enjoys working with small engineering teams to develop products and features that directly target customer need with an eye on ease of use and growth. Gavin believes that customers tell us the most about our needs, and the more we listen and talk, the better a product we can create!
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Group Product Manager
Contentful
- Managed a group of product managers specifically on integrations and developer experience projects.
- Engaged with senior leaders across teams and regions, including sales, marketing, and field teams.
- Led the launch of several pivotal integrations and created the integrations strategy.
Product Director
Red Canary
- Led teams developing security software for Linux environments.
- Helped design the security platform, combining security risk data across three other third-party tools.
- Designed the product development process, including setting standards for research, problem and solution validation, and development.
Senior Product Manager
Automox
- Led the product team and was responsible for all roadmap, product direction, and execution decision-making within the executive team, scaling from 200 to over 1,500 customers.
- Worked closely with eight engineering teams and stakeholders to plan, design, and build a suite of cybersecurity and SaaS application features.
- Helped design features in spaces including API, reporting, enterprise, security, and data with a focus on initiatives to increase the initial trial conversion.
- Created the product-led growth team with a focus on using data to find what made the most successful customers reach that stage and applying those lessons during onboarding. This led to a 14-day drop-in time to become a customer.
- Worked directly with enterprise and government customers, including with large enterprise companies such as NTT and Grab, federal and state government entities including NASA and IT teams across the world.
- Led the UI/UX, product marketing, and technical writing teams on all features.
- Worked with the operations team to research pricing and restructure cost, modernize the billing system, research market opportunity, and generate statistics for marketing and sales presentations.
Senior Product Manager
CommercialTribe
- Developed two main product lines—Coach and Readiness—designed to help train and improve frontline sales teams in messaging and skills, used by over 20,000 sellers across the world.
- Worked directly with a team of 30 to design, plan, and build all features, including beta testers and offshore teams.
- Led all company marketing initiatives for the first two years, with a focus on SaaS inbound marketing. This included all web design, messaging, pricing, and sales outreach and enablement.
- Helped the company raise nearly $10 million in funding over two years, including directly participation in fundraising and board meetings.
- Created a beta program with over 50 sales managers, collaboratively building the first application to allow sales managers to assess their sellers in real-time during a call and get targeted improvement plans.
- Served as a cybersecurity and privacy lead for the company.
Project History
Automox Worklets
https://www.automox.com/use-cases/workletCreated an infinitely scalable way for IT managers to patch, deploy software, and manage any system at scale.
I was the sole product manager and customer advocate for Worklets, helping to design the solution, communicate with customers and a community beta group, and work with engineers to build and deliver the feature. I also helped to create the community program to share and source Worklet scripts from other customers of Automox.
CommercialTribe Coach for Sales Managers
Led the planning, design, and development of CommercialTribe's revolutionary sales coaching app, used by enterprise sales managers across industries.
I led product planning, customer engagement and feedback, and daily engineering and design work for CommercialTribe Coach. Our team was able to test, develop, and release the app in an eight-week period, iteratively developing new features and enhancements aligned to customer feedback. I also completed a design sprint and managed a beta program with over 50 sales managers.
Automox Cloud Patch Management
https://www.automox.com/features/cloud-patch-managementLed the creation of the first fully cloud-based patch management solution for all operating systems.
Instead, Automox cloud patch management allows IT teams to patch, deploy software, manage configurations, and secure machines from a single platform that works with Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. A major feature introduced in this project was the ability to patch software titles based on the severity of the fix, with dynamic policies to allow IT managers to pick and choose how and when they addressed critical threats to their systems—another first in the market.
I scaled Automox's patch management solution—planning and designing all features introduced in the first versions of the platform. This included patch management, software deployment, configuration management, and reporting features.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Archaeology and Russian
Tufts University - Medford, MA, USA
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
CIPP/US
IAPP
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