Sam Harris

Experience

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  Target

  Jun 2013 - Jan 2015

  Executive Team Leader - HR

  Managed 200+ Team Members, Team Leaders, and Executive Team Leaders.Owned total team staffing, training, and development.Designed and delivered training initiatives to improve organizational effectivenessCollaborated with leadership team in order to challenge thinking and promote total team development.Drove results and lead company initiatives through effective planning, communication, and customer service initiatives.Developed strategic plans to increase sales, profitability, and customer loyalty.Assessed data, reports, and metrics to improve productivity and enhance services.Chosen to lead the district-wide initiative to adopt a new HR software, which drastically changed HR processes company-wide. Show less

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  Finvi

  Jan 2015 - May 2021

  Serve as internal advocate for the customer, ensuring their voice is heard. Understand and heighten the value customers derive from our Cloud products. Seek strategic product and services partners to meet market needs. Generate concept briefs and business cases in support of new Cloud products. Develop and maintain product roadmaps. Specify functional and non-functional requirements and associated specifications based upon identified market problems. Assess the impact of architectural, security, future technology, and deployment needs as they relate to products. Collaborate closely with designers, engineers, technical communications, training, quality assurance, support, and professional services for products. Define new product roll out and ongoing release plans. Show less Define innovative solutions in accordance with the vision of product management.Serve as an internal advocate for our clients regarding industry and niche requirements. Research industry, client, and competitive trends to ensure business and system models and user stories are accurate and compelling.Evangelize rationale for product feature sets to drive value-based messaging throughout the organization.Transfer knowledge and support assigned solutions across the organization and to early adopters.Own business and system modeling and user stories for product enhancement or creation. Collaborate with and support solution architects, developers, testers, writers, the SCRUM master and product owner within the context of SCRUM activities.Define and execute acceptance criteria to ensure completed features and support releases. Show less Deliver professional service engagements on-schedule, on-plan, and within quality standards.Lead product implementations, training, and managed services.Gather, document, and analyze complex business needs.Communicate timely and precise both internally and externally.Proactively identify risks and blockers, determine root cause, and possible mitigation strategies.Consult with clients daily/weekly/as needed to develop solutions to meet business needs based on best practices.Create and execute unit and solution test plans.Assist clients with creating user-acceptance test plans.Conduct application-specific training for clients. Show less

  • Product Manager, Ontario Cloud

    Sept 2018 - May 2021

  • Product Analyst

    Apr 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Implementation Consultant

    Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
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  Seismic

  May 2021 - Sept 2022

  Empowering teams to do better work so they can live better lives.Discover and assess product and integration opportunities.Lead research, user studies, and competitive analysis to understand user needs.Collaborate with stakeholders from operations, design, data science, and engineering to understand problems and deliver solutions.Develop experiments that influence definition of a feature that adds customer value.Leverage data and apply analytical techniques to solve business problems and measure product success. Show less

  • Product Manager II, Core Experience

    Feb 2022 - Sept 2022

  • Product Manager, Integrations

    May 2021 - Mar 2022
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  15Five

  Sept 2022 - Apr 2025

  Defined and executed product strategies aligned with company goals, developing tools for measuring and improving outcomes in performance management, employee engagement, and retention.Led cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, and analysts to deliver innovative, customer-centric solutions that address critical HR challenges.Leveraged data-driven insights and AI models to develop new features, enabling HR leaders to make strategic decisions and improve organizational outcomes.Collaborated with stakeholders across marketing, customer success, and leadership to ensure alignment, drive adoption, and bring value to end users.Drove product enablement initiatives, including training sessions and stakeholder education, to support successful product launches and customer satisfaction. Show less

  • Senior Product Manager II

    Feb 2024 - Apr 2025

  • Senior Product Manager

    Sept 2022 - Feb 2024