Elizabeth Obrien

About Elizabeth Obrien

A trusted and adaptable strategic advisor with diverse experience driving the success of SaaS products and digital business platforms. Leverages an innovative approach to problem solving and change implementation by combining a strong stakeholder relationships and data driven business recommendations, resulting in profitable products with high user engagement. Consistently launching top performing and sustainable products by establishing product roadmaps and feature prioritization with strategic research and planning, including understanding of individual user needs, challenges, and establishing and analyzing continuous feedback methods for improvement. Strategic Product Roadmaps | Business Proposals | Leadership & Cross Team Collaboration | Data Analysis Organizational Change Management | Agile, Scrum, & Waterfall Methodologies | KPI Improvement | SQL

Experience

1. Product Manager

   Builders Capital

   May 2023 — Present

   Created, pitched, and executed product roadmaps for loan management software and web platforms, resulting in higher engagement of internal sales users as well as external broker clients. Assimilated complex stakeholder requests into existing infrastructure, translating ambiguous concepts into actionable projects, as well as ideated new suggestions for enhancements. Collaborated with development engineers to ship product enhancements at a biweekly or faster pace to meet tight deadlines after prioritizing work strategically. Streamlined communication on cross functional projects to maximize alignment and provided training and guidance on new product launches ranging from new users to established executives. • Lead redesign and release of existing loan application platforms to meet new user needs during the acquisition of a new subsidiary, using focus groups in tandem with platform data and Prosci methodology to ensure a smooth transition, supporting 95% new employee retention.• Designed content, UX, requirements, and lead development teams through the build of a new B2B loan pricing web tool which incorporates AI modeling, accomplishing an eight-week end-to-end development timeline and resulting in faster loan generation alongside to enable the company to hit their $3B Originations goal.• Managed prioritization of tasks on multiple different project streams, balancing execution and delivery of features with creative ideation for long term product roadmaps.• Identified weak points in current system processes using data analysis and designed compelling business proposals using tools like Visio, Figma, Microsoft, and Loom, for product features which would increase efficiency.

Education

• Saline High School

  HS Diploma

  2007 — 2011

• Eastern Michigan University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

  2011 — 2015

• University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

  Master of Management

  2017 — 2018