Scott Ruble

About Scott Ruble

Product leader with a 32-year proven track record of building industry-leading client, cloud, and mobile software applications for B-to-B and B-to-C customers while leading high performing teams. Enjoys leading diverse teams to solve challenging problems and deliver results that delight customers. Adept at defining strategic direction and executing on it. Talented at building trust and strong relationships necessary to deliver projects involving multiple global partner teams. Strong technical background with the ability to discuss the nuts and bolts of data architecture and quickly shift gears to discuss business strategy with Fortune 500 customers. As a people leader, fosters employee trust, growth, and development. Motivated by creative outcomes delivered in a fun, collaborative work environment. SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS • 20 years of experience at Microsoft driving the development of industry-leading cloud-based products and services for B-to-B and B-to-C customers. • 12 years of experience at Dow Chemical leading B-to-B engagements and internal IT projects to effectively deploy, train, and support software applications in corporations. • 16 years of experience as a people manager at Microsoft leading high performing inclusive program management teams. • Broad experience driving the vision, roadmap, and implementation of high impact features through all phases of the product development life cycle during seven major product releases in Microsoft Office and Workplace Analytics while leading teams both domestic and abroad (China and India). • Successfully drove the re-platforming of four major products and services at Microsoft. These initiatives improved scalability, reliability, performance, and functionality which positively impacted millions of customers. • Led Microsoft Workplace Analytics product team from an incubation to a mainstream profitable service. Established core parts of the customer obsessed team culture and rhythm of business for efficient and high-quality product development. Significantly contributed to growing the B-to-B business from zero customers in 2017 to 3x growth year-over-year for last 3 years. • Proven track record for effectively partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Go-to-Market teams to accelerate the sales process through the development of pre-sales tools, seeded value, trial experiences, marketing collateral, and presentations.

Experience

1. Principal Group Program Manager on Viva Insights Team

   Microsoft

   Oct 2019 — Present

   Principal Group Program Manager for Viva Insights team. Responsible for leading PM team and driving teamwide product vision, execution, and support for B-to-B customers. Focused on delivering highly scalable AI-powered insights and experiences for organizational wellbeing and productivity. This service helps business leaders and managers understand team network and collaboration patterns to identify issues and take corrective action.• Led product planning and vision for migrating Workplace Analytics to be part of the Viva suite and deliver significantly more scalability and self-serve experiences. Established product team’s first iteration of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to measure business impact. Continued to drive customer growth 3x year-over-year.• Led development to create Workplace Analytics pre-sales tools, seeded insights, and free product trials in partnership with go-to-market team to accelerate sales cycle. Reports showed the art of the possible and helped customers understand the impact of the pandemic on corporate wellbeing and productivity. They also influenced the sales of over 100K Workplace Analytics licenses.• Reshaped the Workplace Analytics user experience around business outcomes which helped business leaders better understand the alignment of our product and their business goals.• Drove platform integration of Power BI reports allowing for a faster and lower cost approach to surfacing new insights targeted at specific use cases; e.g. business continuity.• Operationalized more scalable programs to improve customer retention, increase depth of customer engagement, foster tighter relationships with sales organization, quickly resolve customer issues, and act on product feedback.• Fostered an engaged, empowered, customer-obsessed culture across the team and continued to build strong relationships with partner teams.

Education

• University of Michigan College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering