Product Leader and Strategist
An entrepreneurial product leader with a passion for creating innovative solutions and scaling B2B SaaS platforms. With nearly 20 years of experience in the marketing technology space, I have developed software for large enterprise brands, driving transformative results through strategic vision and execution. I’ve founded my own company, led two early-stage startups to successful acquisitions, and held executive leadership roles at multiple organizations, working closely with boards and investors to align on growth and innovation strategies.
- Deep expertise in launching and scaling products, from initial planning and strategy through development, implementation, and go-to-market execution.
- Proven ability to identify market opportunities, shape strategic partnerships, and deliver impactful product solutions.
- Established product development processes as the first product manager at multiple early-stage startups, building and leading teams to successful acquisitions.
- Experienced in every phase of product leadership, including ideation, strategy, roadmapping, agile sprint planning, and market positioning.
- Versatile leader with experience in diverse business environments, including early-stage startups, IPO-bound companies, and large publicly traded enterprises, managing teams across Product and UX functions.
Specialties: Agile & Waterfall Development, UI/UX, customer insights, GenAI productization, analytics, pricing & packaging, customer and market research, competitive analysis, win/loss analysis
Accomplished jazz piano player
Jonathan Sussman has been a guest on 1 episode.
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How to build for customers— not stakeholders | Jonathan Sussman, CPO (Jebbit) | LaunchPod
March 4th, 2025 | Season 1 | 31 mins 3 secs
business, digital experience, product management, technology
Today, we’re talking with Jonathan Sussman, CPO for over 5 years at Jebbit, an enterprise experience platform for first-party data capture, which was recently acquired by BlueConic.
In this episode, Jonathan talks about:
- Why Product Management is one of the hardest functions to master
- How to use professional services - usually a cost center - as a source of product innovation that drives longterm growth
- And, the time when they built to solve internal problems, not customer value, nearly caused an early key launch to fail