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Senior Product Manager · Platform Division · 2014–2016

Owned the VNext platform roadmap for a SaaS ecommerce platform serving 10,000+ merchants.

Volusion was a SaaS ecommerce platform serving 10,000+ merchants. As Senior Product Manager in the Platform Division I owned the multi-year platform-modernization roadmap (VNext), drove the merchant self-service Theme Engine + Functional Style Editor + Theme Store, and operated the cross-functional cadence that let the team ship daily into a live 10K-merchant footprint without taking the platform down.

10,000+

Merchants served

Senior PM · Platform Division

Role

20+ shipped

Q1 2015 initiatives

Gartner · 2015 MQ cycle

Briefed

Scope

Multi-year modernization across every surface of a live SaaS platform.

VNext was a platform-wide rebuild touching the storefront engine, admin re-skin, responsive design, third-party integrations (Facebook, Amazon, Google), SSL vendor migration, image-management API, the My Account customer surface, and the Theme Engine. The Q1 2015 plan alone scoped 20+ strategic initiatives across that surface.

I owned feature scope, prioritization, and the cross-team coordination needed to actually ship without breaking the platform's daily-deploy cadence. That meant constant trade-off conversations with sales enablement, customer success, design, and engineering — and the kind of platform-stability discipline that lets you ship daily into a 10K-merchant footprint without taking the place down.

How We Worked

Sprints, daily deploy, and the tooling stack to run all of it.

Drove the agile cadence: 2-week sprints, daily standup rhythm, twice-weekly backlog grooming, daily deployment culture with rigorous change management. Stood up the tooling: Jira for delivery, Wizeline for capacity planning, UserVoice for customer feedback in the loop, StatusPage for incidents.

Briefed Gartner for the 2015 Magic Quadrant cycle. Proposed and specced new admin tools — Redactor Tool, Logo Tool, customize-menu — that became part of the merchant-facing product surface.

The Throughline

The exact muscle that runs Lvl Up engagements today.

VNext is where I learned how to take a system that's serving thousands of paying customers and modernize it without breaking it. The motion — diagnose, scope, sequence, ship — is the same motion that runs in every Lvl Up engagement. The Theme Engine specifically (give non-experts a tool that lets them do what only experts could before) is the same shape as the AI Implementation Sprint we ship today.

Production artifacts preserved from the tenure: Volusion Platform Roadmap PDF, 2015 Product Plan deck, Q1 2015 Project Plan, Theme Engine Discovery Guide, Information Architecture Kickoff deck, plan-of-attack visual, multiple admin tool proposals.

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