Samuel Stephen

– Lead product strategy and roadmap planning across a portfolio of client-facing web applications, mobile apps, SaaS products, and internal AI tools for a creative technology studio serving clients across multiple industry verticals. – Own the full product lifecycle for multiple concurrent workstreams translating client briefs and user research into clear product requirements, prioritized backlogs, and sprint-ready specifications delivered to a cross-functional team of 4–10 engineers and designers. – Drive discovery and definition for AI-powered tool development scoping use cases, defining model interaction flows, evaluating build vs. integrate decisions, and establishing quality benchmarks for AI output that meet real user needs. – Implement and enforce Agile delivery frameworks across the studio sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and roadmap reviews measurably improving delivery consistency and reducing scope creep across active client projects. – Act as the primary product interface between clients and the internal team managing stakeholder expectations, translating business goals into product outcomes, and ensuring alignment across design, engineering, and commercial teams throughout each delivery cycle. – Identify and drive product growth opportunities within existing client engagements, including feature expansion, UX optimization, and conversion improvements consistently delivering product value beyond initial project scope.

– Led end-to-end development and launch of a Web3 event discovery and ticketing platform from the ground up defining product vision, core architecture, and feature prioritization roadmap in collaboration with engineering, design, and founding stakeholders. – Conducted deep user research and market analysis across the global Web3 conference and events ecosystem synthesizing findings into actionable product insights that directly shaped three major roadmap pivots and prevented costly misdirected development. – Shipped a full suite of core platform features including decentralized event discovery, on-chain ticketing integrations, wallet connectivity, and community engagement tools managing sprint cycles, acceptance criteria, and release planning end-to-end. – Designed and executed the product's go-to-market strategy identifying distribution channels, crafting positioning for Web3-native audiences, and coordinating with marketing to secure pre-launch traction across major global Web3 communities and conference circuits. – Drove product experimentation cycles using structured A/B testing and funnel analysis to iteratively improve onboarding completion rates, session depth, and early user retention establishing a data-informed culture within the product team. – Introduced formal product operations to the team sprint planning rituals, backlog prioritization frameworks, and cross-functional roadmap reviews transforming an ad-hoc delivery process into a predictable, scalable Agile workflow.

– Led product strategy for a suite of internal investment and operational tools including deal-flow management systems, portfolio tracking dashboards, and diligence workflow automation used by the fund team to evaluate and manage Web3 project investments at scale. – Designed and implemented comprehensive frameworks for evaluating tokenomics structures, liquidity mechanisms, and protocol growth trajectories tools that were formally adopted as the fund's standard diligence process and applied across all new investment assessments. – Worked directly with venture partners and portfolio founders across Switzerland, Singapore, and Dubai to align internal product capabilities with active investment theses, ensuring tooling kept pace with the fund's evolving deal complexity and market focus. – Identified and executed product-led growth opportunities within the portfolio mapping where AI-assisted analysis, automated reporting, and workflow integration could reduce analyst workload and accelerate investment decision timelines. – Facilitated structured cross-functional collaboration between business development, research, and product teams creating shared workflows and communication rituals that reduced information silos and accelerated protocol adoption across portfolio companies. – Owned the product roadmap and feature prioritization for all internal tooling balancing near-term operational needs of the investment team against longer-term platform scalability and reporting requirements.

– Founded and led a Web3 product advisory platform from zero designing the service offering, operational infrastructure, and client engagement model from scratch to serve early-stage blockchain startups across DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer application verticals. – Advised 50+ Web3 founders on product strategy, token utility design, tokenomics structuring, and exchange listing roadmaps functioning as an embedded product lead for teams navigating the complexity of launching and scaling on-chain products in competitive markets. – Built end-to-end operational systems to manage client onboarding, listing pipelines, ecosystem partnership workflows, and project milestone tracking establishing repeatable playbooks that enabled consistent, high-quality delivery across a growing client base. – Guided early-stage teams through critical product decisions including feature scoping for token launches, go-to-market sequencing for exchange listings, and positioning strategy for ecosystem grants and investor outreach. – Developed a structured product review methodology for assessing blockchain startup readiness covering product-market fit signals, on-chain traction metrics, community growth indicators, and competitive differentiation used as the foundation for advisory engagements. – Built and maintained a network of exchange partners, ecosystem funds, and protocol communities leveraging relationships to create direct listing and partnership opportunities for advisory clients.