Shabih Syed

CEO

Dallas, Texas, United States20 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 10+ years of experience in marketing and growth leadership.
  • Proven success in driving multimillion-dollar revenue growth.
  • Expertise in product positioning and go-to-market strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Marketing Leader with extensive experience in growth strategies and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product MarketingGo-to-market StrategySales EnablementGrowth MarketingProduct ManagementProduct PositioningProduct-led GrowthProduct-market FitGrowth StrategyDeal StructuringDigital Experience ManagementSolutions EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentVoip ProtocolsWeb DevelopmentAsp .net

Other Skills

Apache KafkaBrand AwarenessBusiness AnalysisCampaign ManagementCampaign StrategiesCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer AcquisitionCustomer EducationCustomer EngagementCustomer Segmentation StrategyCustomer SupportDelivering Technical TrainingDemo EngineeringDigital MarketingDigital Strategy

About

Marketing & Growth Leader with 10+ years of experience driving revenue, product adoption, and global marketing at B2B2C companies (LaunchDarkly, Square, Datadog, Redis). Proven success in scaling global teams, executing GTM strategies, leading product marketing, and driving multimillion-dollar revenue growth. Expertise in product positioning, technical enablement, pricing & packaging and SaaS growth.

Experience

Honeycomb.io

VP Product Marketing

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Dallas, Texas, United States · Remote

  • Leading a team of Product Marketers responsible for go-to-market strategy of Honeycomb's Observability Platform.
  • Within first 180 Days:
  • Expanded the team to create 1:1 PMM to Product ratio
  • Introduced new positioning and messaging
  • Created monthly pipeline generation playbooks for sales outreach that contributed to a record number (30M+) of sales pipeline in a single quarter
  • Launched Honeycomb Intelligence (AI Observability) through a momentum-building AIWeek (3 exciting AI products over 3 Days)
  • Developed a strong GTM play with AWS, working collaboratively with the Head of Partnerships
  • 2025 Launch Milestones - A product launch every Quarter starting in Q2 with 3 major launch moments:
  • 1) Honeycomb Announces Innovations in Telemetry Pipeline to Advance Enterprise Observability
  • 2) Honeycomb Introduces the Developer Interface of the Future with AI-Native Observability Suite
  • 3) Honeycomb Launches New Private Cloud Offering to Address Security, Compliance, and Cost Concerns
  • 2025 Growth Milestones:
  • 6-figure pipeline for 2026
  • MCP Server and Canvas AI Co-pilot adoption by 53% of all teams using Honeycomb
  • Q4/largest quarter revenue in Honeycomb's history
  • What was fun and exciting?
  • New team members and learning from them
  • Being mentored by the CMO
  • AIWeek (3 days, 3 new AI products)
  • Positioning and messaging development
  • Re:invent: booth duty, meeting friends
Product MarketingGo-to-market StrategyPipeline DevelopmentDigital MarketingCustomer Acquisition

Launchdarkly

Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Aug 2024May 2025 · 9 mos · Dallas, Texas, United States

  • I led three teams: Solutions Product Marketing, Demo Engineering and Customer Education. Together, we helped Engineering leaders and IC developers understand the technical value of LaunchDarkly through product launches (AI Configs, Product Analytics, Integrations), end-to-end platform demos, self-serve technical training, and hands-on workshops for developers.
  • Key achievements:
  • 1. Re:Invent '24: The team led the booth's demo experience. Trained 20+ employees on demos, conducted over 1K demos at 6 booth stations, and 400+ people participated in a hands-on interactive challenge (ToggleTunes) helping us beat the leads and pipeline goal by 123%.
  • 2. Launch Week '24: The team led the "Code Jam with LaunchDarkly", a hands-on developer workshop built with Instruqt, which was attended by 120+ people.
  • 3. CKO: The team led the build-out and delivery of four technical tracks at the company kick-off attended by 100+ people and trained SEs/SAs/TAMs on how to demo LaunchDarkly.
  • 4. Launches: Academy (Learning Hub) refresh. At the close of the year ~2000 students had completed courses and ~4000 certifications were completed. LaunchDarkly Snowflake Native App launch for unlocking additional revenue across 1000+ joint accounts.
Product MarketingDemo EngineeringCustomer EducationSales Enablement

Square

Product Lead, Growth Marketing

Feb 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · New York, New York, United States

  • I led the global strategy for instrumenting key customer journeys on Square's website (squareup.com) by leveraging a 35-member team composed of PMs, Engineers, Designers, and Data Scientists. Our team shipped several product-led and sales-led web journeys globally including Square's new homepage that was featured in the Q1'23 shareholder letter for its impact on customer growth, new Contact Sales flow, new Onboarding flow, AI Chat Bot, and an entire website IA refresh unlocking 10M+ in Net Product Adoption (NPA) growth annually.
Growth MarketingProduct ManagementCustomer Engagement

Datadog

Head of Product Marketing - APM, Logs, DEM

Apr 2022Feb 2023 · 10 mos · New York, United States

  • Led 4 PMM teams (10 PMMs) responsible for the growth of Application Performance Monitoring, Digital Experience Management, Log Management, and Datadog Partner Network. Demo captain for AWS:reinvent 2022; created 14 product demos, trained 100+ staff members to deliver demos at the booth, and attained goal of 10K booth leads. Led Sales enablement efforts by developing 6 in-person courses (delivered by PMMs weekly) to train new sales team members joining Datadog.
Product MarketingSales EnablementDemo Engineering

Tessell

Advisor

Jan 2022Feb 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Advised on developing product positioning and instrumenting product-led growth.
Product PositioningProduct-led Growth

Rivet

Advisor

Jan 2022Apr 2022 · 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Advised on product positioning to help achieve product-market fit.
Product PositioningProduct-market Fit

Opentext

Sr. Principal, Strategic Customer Growth

Feb 2021Apr 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, United States

  • Drove growth strategy for OpenText Digital Experience Platform (DXP) on Google Cloud. In partnership with 100+ Global Account Executives, my team was involved in the critical phases of the Deal Cycle (Strategy, Structuring, Negotiations, and Closures) carrying an annual quota of 100M+
Growth StrategyDeal Structuring

Mparticle

Head of Product Marketing

Jan 2019Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · New York, New York

  • Led a team of 3 Product & Solutions Marketing experts that helped launch new Platform messaging and 11 product launches. Companies such as Airbnb, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Spotify, Disney, and Postmates use mParticle to create a unified, real-time customer data pipeline.
Product MarketingSales Enablement

Redis labs

Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Jan 2019May 2019 · 4 mos · New York, New York

  • Responsible for product marketing, industry vertical campaigns, product collateral, competitive outtakes, sales enablement and product marketing of joint offerings with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for Redis.
Product MarketingSales Enablement

Liaison technologies (acquired by opentext)

2 roles

Head of Product Marketing and Sales Enablement

Jan 2017Jan 2019 · 2 yrs

  • I reported to the CRO and led a global team of 7 who were responsible for growth marketing of Liaison's Alloy platform in United States and Europe. Alloy platform subscriptions grew by double digits in 2H of 2018 with over 100M in revenue. Liaison entered into an agreement to be acquired by OpenText in October '18 for $310M.
  • I also led the Sales Enablement team that created learning programs for our growing global customer facing teams that included business development, account executives and solution engineers.
  • Alloy was deployed in a private cloud in Liaison's own hosted data centers to support security and privacy of data for our healthcare, financial and retail customers.
Product MarketingSales Enablement

Head of Product

May 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • I reported to the CEO and managed the product management team for ALLOY, a managed cloud data Platform as a Service (dPaaS) for B2B integration and Big Data management utilizing machine learning, microservices architecture, and compliance for PCI, HIPAA/HITEC, FDA - 21 CFR Part 11 and SOC-2.
  • Our team of 5 product managers supported a distributed engineering scrum team of 30+ engineers across Seattle, Atlanta, New York and Tampere, Finland.
  • Technologies: Kafka, Hadoop, MapR, RedShift, NodeJs, AngularJS, Hbase, Elasticsearch
Product MarketingSales Enablement

Hewlett-packard

2 roles

Sr. Product Manager, HP TeamSite

Jan 2013Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

  • I reported to the CTO and was the lead product manager for HP TeamSite Digital Experience Management platform with 3000+ customers globally.
  • TeamSite is a market-leading Digital Experience Management platform that provides a single, powerful solution for managing digital initiatives.
  • Launched TeamSite as a SaaS service on HP Cloud.
Product ManagementDigital Experience Management

Manager, Solutions Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2013 · 3 yrs

  • Managed a team of engineers that productised add-on solutions for digital experience management and web analytics for customers in various industries including financial services, telecom, healthcare and energy utilities
Product ManagementDigital Experience Management

Ibm

Staff Software Engineer, IBM Sametime Instant Messaging

Jan 2006Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Austin, Texas

  • Senior member of a software team working on IBM Sametime. VOIP protocols for instant messaging.
Solutions EngineeringDigital Experience Management

Applied materials

Consultant, Web Developer

Aug 2005Aug 2006 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas

  • Designed and delivered an automated solution to track Six Sigma and Statistical Process Control (SPC) projects by creating two departmental websites using ASP .Net
Software DevelopmentVOIP Protocols

Halliburton

Software Developer / Engineering Co-op

May 2004Dec 2004 · 7 mos · Houston, Texas

  • Part of a two member team that developed a client-server application in C# for the Windows 2000 and XP platforms to interface with sensor communications during drilling and calculate the efficiency of the drill bit in real time
Web DevelopmentASP .Net

Education

Cornell University

M.B.A.

Jan 2012Jan 2014

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

Aitchison College

High School

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