Nice to meet you, I'm Shannon Nagaoka
Professional experience
My multi-faceted background of marketing & tech coupled with my cross-disciplinary expertise in data analytics, programming, and UX/UI design has made me an effective and collaborative product manager. I am also a Certified ScrumMaster®, Certified Scrum Product Owner® and an Agile practitioner, thus naturally inclined to streamline processes built around people and team dynamics. I am currently seeking passionate people or teams to build innovative products!
I love what I do and my multi-faceted background of marketing and tech has made me a dynamic and flexible product manager. I am also a Certified ScrumMaster®, Certified Scrum Product Owner® and an Agile practitioner, thus naturally inclined to streamline processes but around people and team dynamics. I am currently seeking awesome people or teams to build great products!
Certifications
I have been implementing Agile practices for over five years now and hold certifications as a Certified ScrumMaster® and Certified Scrum Product Owner® from Scrum Alliance®, the largest, most established, and influential professional Agile membership and certification organization with 450,000+ practitioners.
Identify opportunities to build impactful products 0-1 that solve customer problems and balance business needs. Demonstrate product leadership through a data-driven approach—harnessing data from product analytics, customer insights, market research—and effective stakeholder management (up to C-Suite) to secure buy-in. Maintain a steadfast commitment to a customer-first mentality, delivering a best-in-class user experience at every stage of the customer journey.
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Leverage CSPO, CSM certifications and learnings to manage distributed cross-functional teams of on-site, remote, and offshore software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and designers using Agile scrum or kanban (depending on team dynamics) SDLC best practices and tools to optimize dev velocity and operational efficiency.
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Partner with Product Marketing, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams to create GTM strategies, execute product launches, activation, and provide education/training & product demos to build user acquisition, engagement, conversion, and/or retention. Further optimize performance, create product enhancements, and increase revenue through managing user feedback, product analysis, and A/B or multivariate experimentation.
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NYU Stern MBA candidate with a specialization in Business Analytics for a strong business foundation enriched with advanced data analytics training. Proficient in data analysis & management, including SQL, R, and Python, to extract, manipulate, and analyze complex datasets. Also skilled in Tableau for creating compelling data visualizations. This blend of academic rigor and practical expertise positions me to deliver insightful data-driven decisions and strategies as an effective business leader.
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Companies I've Worked For
14+ years work experience across global Fortune 500 enterprises to early-stage, venture-backed startups across sectors: media, advertising, retail, consumer goods, tech.
Education
Studies reflect my passion for the intersection of media & technology and creativity & commerce with a solid foundation in business.