Cory Liebgott

About Cory Liebgott

Highly driven, collaborative, and energetic senior leader managing an AI-first global team of product managers and product leaders. Extensive experience driving complex, cross-functional SaaS projects to successful launch. Data-driven, highly organized efficiency geek who enjoys solving problems. Establishes and drives team toward clear OKRs. Proven experience growing and hiring top performing teams with high retention and employee engagement. Navigates challenges and transformational changes with empathy and transparency. Leads by example with kindness and dedication to our collective success while incorporating fun and joy in our work. Passion for learning, growing, and helping others do the same via team leadership, advocacy, mentorship, speaking events, and community support.

Experience

1. Vice President of Product Management

   Optimizely

   Sep 2023 — Present

   Leader of leaders and ICs for our Platform and Commerce product areas spanning 17 people in 4 countries and $87M ARR-Defines, evangelizes and drives AI-first product strategy-Empowers team to use and share emerging AI tools to be more efficient as PMs-Drives team to ruthlessly prioritize to support company objectives, measurable business outcomes, and key customer needs-Establishes and tracks clear OKRs for self and team-Empowers and unblocks team members to ensure successful and timely execution-Partners with leaders across the org to strengthen the relationships between our teams and support one another\'s shared objectives-Collaborates with key leaders to drive pricing and packaging, go-to-market, and enablement for stakeholders-Maintains deep understanding of our customers via Product Council, Customer Advisory Boards, conferences, and 1:1 customer meetings-Speaks internally and externally to evangelize our AI-first solutions and roadmap-Fosters a supportive, inclusive and collaborative culture-Maintains high employee satisfaction with 95-97% manager favorability rating (2024-25 Employee surveys)-Drives team to deliver on key commits including the following 2024-25 projects:*Launched agentic AI capabilities including Opal suggested audiences to improve personalization and multiple Opal system tools to connect to third party data *Established usage tracking and visualization for Opal (AI) credit consumption *Launched Real Time Segmentation in Experimentation product *Increased Opti ID adoption (unified login) from 5% to 70% of customers *Enhanced compliance including SOC2 for data platform *Added strategic integrations to our data platform with 29% increase YoY for app installs *50% reduction in migration support tickets after self-service improvements *Cost savings of $252k/yr by moving from MySQL to flexible servers,$19k/yr by automating account deletion, and $125k/yr from self-service functionality for widget configuration

Education

• Northern Illinois University

  Master's, Business Administration

• Carthage College

  Bachelor's, Marketing and Business Administration