Jim Kultgen

Product Manager

Chicago, Illinois, United States18 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in digital analytics.
  • Expert in transforming complex data into actionable insights.
  • Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS analytics expert with a strong focus on product strategy and data-driven decision making.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital AnalyticsProduct StrategyAnalytics StrategyAnalytics LeadershipUser Experience OptimizationExperimentation StrategyData Automation

Other Skills

SQLData EngineeringAnalytics EngineeringAnalyticsTrainingData AnalysisResearchCollaborationConsumer InsightsExperimentationData CollectionConversion AnalysisTableauAutomationAlteryx

About

Analytics leader with a aptitude for transforming complex data into action that delivers meaningful business outcomes. Over a decade of experience in digital analytics, product experimentation, and marketing optimization. Skilled at bridging the gap between data and decision-making by enabling cross-functional teams to operate with greater speed, clarity, and confidence.

Experience

18 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 8 mos
Current Experience

Amplitude

Product Strategist & Evangelist

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

Cars commerce

4 roles

Principal, Analytics

Promoted

Apr 2024Apr 2024 · 0 mo

  • Delivered a proprietary digital event system including user and session-based features by creating alignment among marketing, product, and finance teams and writing requirements and data definitions for analytics engineering and data engineering teams.
  • Completed the enterprise onboarding of Amplitude to enable self-service analytics for product, design, engineering, marketing, and analytics team.
  • Responsibilities in this project included guiding product leadership in measurement strategy, defining required events and properties, and collaborating with software and analytics engineering teams to deliver required features.
  • Lead onboarding initiative including office hours, enterprise training, and documenting key features, definitions, and education guide.

Analyst V (Sr. Analyst II), Site Analytics

Oct 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Analytics lead for marketplace product mission team. Consistently collaborated with product managers to ensure that any new features are grounded in measurement hypotheses to answer if investments have an impact.
  • Conducted research to educate Designers and Product Managers about how consumers utilized platforms, where opportunities exist, and provided guidance on feature prioritization.
  • Served as a conduit between Growth Marketing and Product Management to deliver "Listing Landing Pages" a joint function initiative to ensure that consumer experiences were differentiated based on consumer journey stage and objective.
  • Blended qualitative and quantitative data to guide the improvement of the search results experience, solving a major point of consumer friction.
  • Developed model for weighting the impact of product feature changes to competing revenue sources (ad delivery versus lead generation).
  • 2022 Finance Team CARSY Recipient
  • Championed the proactive sharing of information beyond individual product teams to the wider organization through dedicated communication channels.
  • Analytics lead for internally-built CDP. Provided guidance on the definition of a consumer and methods to resolve identities.

Manager, Site Analytics

Promoted

Apr 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Lead a team of software and analytics engineers to implement a server-side experimentation platform and deliver the first experiment in 2+ years.
  • Designed experimentation procedures prior to onboarding an external partner and later in-house experimentation staff.
  • Lead measurement and data collection strategy for new website and mobile applications.
  • Conducted conversion correlation analysis to dictate which features were prioritized for the MVP release of the new web platform and two mobile applications.
  • Developed a refactored model of estimated incremental revenue, enabling ROI analysis at a marketing channel level.
  • Saved $50k/month of recurring revenue by uncovering the root cause of a recurring data issue.
  • 2021 "Lightyear" Award Winner for consistently going "Above and Beyond" expectations.

Lead Analyst, Site Analytics

Mar 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Automated digital marketing daily reporting from 20+ sources - reducing manual efforts by 300 hours/year and enabling report availability 7 days/week. Automation included SQL modeling, Adverity, and Tableau Server.
  • Created a model for attributing dealer walk-in visits to marketing channels via Markov Chains, using SQL and R.
  • Leveraged SQL and Tableau to educate enterprise that internal identity resolution systems could be more effective at enabling people-based marketing or behavioral analysis than third party systems - enabling $250k in annual savings.
  • Q4 2020 Team MVP

Ezlinks golf llc

Senior Analyst, Digital Analytics TeeOff by PGA TOUR

Jan 2019Mar 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Leveraged Alteryx, R, and SQL to automate digital marketing monthly and weekly reporting - reducing manual efforts by 400 hours/year.
  • Created website performance monitoring alerts that increased annual revenue by ≈$100k
  • Developed and delivered cross-functional training to digital marketing, social, content, product, distribution, engineering, and devops team; expanded analytics platform usage by 500%
  • Leveraged multi-source data to create product enhancement recommendations, leading to the introduction of ‘remembered’ and ‘user location’ based search functionality on TeeOff.com
  • Analyzed and delivered research to CMO to enable the deprecation of Golf18Network.com; reducing annual expenses by $100k+
  • Audited analytics implementation and used Adobe Launch/DTM to resolve 50+ issues with data collection

Kohler co.

2 roles

Senior Analyst, Analytics

Oct 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Analytics & DMP leader - Kitchen & Bath digital transformation initiative.
  • Expedited business decision-making by standardizing web reporting across 100+ business units.
  • Lead analyst for 150+ distinct digital properties.
  • Enabled $60K efficiency via the selection and deployment of an automated testing platform.

Website Analytics Analyst

Jul 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Designed and conducted internal analytics enablement training, empowering users to self-service
  • Piloted attribution initiative by building standards, technical solutions, and creating alignment with global business
  • teams and media/acquisition agencies
  • Created measurement strategy methodology and trained teammates to conduct business interviews
  • Built initial corporate data layer specifications to ensure accurate digital data collection
  • Adobe Analytics subject matter expert

Cardinal path

Consultant, Analysis & Insights

Oct 2015Jun 2016 · 8 mos · Chicago

  • Present weekly, monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc reports using a variety of tools (Tableau, Powerpoint, and Excel).
  • Collaborate with clients to produce KPI frameworks and implementation prioritizations.
  • Evaluate online consumer behavior using Google Analytics Premium and Adobe Analytics.
  • Conduct landing page analysis and produce A/B testing recommendations.
  • Create content for international Partner Academy training courses.

Glenview park district

2 roles

Youth Sports Supervisor

Aug 2013Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Lead program restructure to increase revenue 31% (7.1% annual) from 2010-2014.
  • Annually develop optimized program schedule based on forecasted participant ages and school release times.
  • Analyze, design, and implement a $1.5 million annual facility budget.
  • Direct all aspects of a 500-player youth program
 - Recipient of 2014 Chicago District Facility of the Year Award.
  • Researched and wrote grant from the APTA to help finance the $2.3 million dollar Glenview Prairie Club.
  • Recruit, hire, train, schedule, supervise, evaluate, and lead 20 person coaching staff.
  • Member of Wilson Tennis Advisory Staff
  • Serve as Manager-on-duty in absence of facility director.

Junior Tennis Program Coordinator

Aug 2010Aug 2013 · 3 yrs

  • Wrote and implemented curriculum in accordance with the USTA Ten & Under Tennis Initiative.
  • Scheduled and administered regional, sectional, and national USTA tournaments.
  • Planned and conducted staff development sessions.

Herrmann tennis academy

Player Services

Sep 2008Sep 2010 · 2 yrs

  • Served as Junior Camp Director for the Evanston Recreation Department.
  • Acted as site director at overnight summer camps at Western Michigan University.
  • Created content for website and develop and publish bi-monthly newsletters promoting academy programs.
  • Coordinated all aspects of special events including registration, scheduling, and event management.

Glenbrook racquet club

Junior Program Coordinator & Manager's Assistant

Sep 2008Aug 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Coordinated staffing, scheduling, class placement, and billing for all club junior programs.
  • Created content for website and published monthly newsletters promoting club programs.
  • Coordinated aspects of tournaments including registration, scheduling, and event management.
  • Created curriculum and taught tennis classes to students ranging in ages 3-80.
  • Assisted in all aspects of club operations as assigned by management.

University of wisconsin - whitewater

2 roles

Student Coordinator of Club Sports

Aug 2007Jun 2008 · 10 mos

  • Assisted with the development of club budgets, schedules, procedures, and risk management assessment.
  • Planned and organized leadership training, group meetings, and club sports events.
  • Oversaw the collection and filing of all required club sports forms, including rosters, schedules, medical information, liability waivers and travel information.
  • Managed a $147,000 budget, including $49,000 of funding from Segregated University Fees.
  • Member of the Assistant Director of Intramurals and Clubs Search and Screen Committee.

Sports Information Assistant

Sep 2006May 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Supported the promotion of varsity teams by working at events and in the Sports Information office.
  • Assignments included recording statistics, research projects, aiding in the preparation of printed materials, web maintenance, and media assistance.
  • Software systems utilized include Photoshop Elements 6.0, Microsoft Office, The Automated Scorebook, Stat Crew, Collage, FrontPage, and ICS SideAarm.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

B.B.A. — Business Management

General Assembly

Analytics

Jan 2015Jan 2015

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