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Carl Thorne-Thomsen
Fractional Product & GTM Leader
Accomplished product leader with deep experience in the full-stack of bringing digital products to market: product management, design, user research, marketing, enablement, and sales // McCombs MBA, Civitas Learning, and Teach for America alum.
Work
Launched Civitas Learning's Administrative Analytics Solution
https://www.civitaslearning.com/platform/administrative-analytics/Brought together disparate capabilities and led development of critical new capabilities (which were identified through deep buyer/user discovery & research) into a unified solution, to achieve product-market fit. Directly led all parts of go-to market, from user research, product development, engineering team/scrum management, product marketing, pricing & packaging, sales enablement, and even directly had a seat on the sales team to build out consultative selling model. 3X revenue, 50% reduction in churn.
Developed consultative selling playbook
Built out step-by-step resources for sales team to effectively assess and validate buyer problems, build a coalition to address those problems, develop a solution and get buy-in for it, and ultimately navigate deal closing. Leveraged deep experience working with education leaders in the product development capacity, and my direct experience in navigating long-cycle, complex, government procurement processes to inform this selling process.
Led build/buy/partner analyses, product rep on acquisition team
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clearscholar-2Completed 6 build, buy, partner analyses; was product lead on the acquisition deal team for a student-facing mobile app, and led product integration post-close
Developed campus instructional coaching playbook for Dallas ISD regional campuses
As instructional coach and department chair, I established a support plan for 10-teacher math team, and case management system for at-risk students which led to a student pass rate on the state test of 76%, as compared to a 38% pass prior year. With this success, I was asked to co-author a handbook of our methods, that was used across campus leaders in south Dallas to drive similar results.
Experience
Civitas Learning
Regional Vice President & Senior Product Manager
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
- Developed and owned long-term product strategy for core analytics solution to achieve product-market fit
- Managed multiple product initiatives, and helped scale products 1->N as well as launch 0->1
- Responsible for all parts of go-to-market: product management (5+ years in PM seat, managing a portfolio of 5 products), design, user research, marketing, enablement, and sales
Teach for America
Campus Instructional Coach, Math Department Chair, Algebra and Geometry Teacher, and Head Tennis Coach
Apr 2011 - May 2014
- Teacher of the Year, Coach of the Year
- As instructional coach and department chair, established support plan for 10-teacher math team, and case management system for at-risk students
- As teacher, produced 85% student pass rate on end-of-course test, as compared to average state rate of 67%
- Increased tennis team participation from 7 members to 28 members; led team to Regionals for first time in five years
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