About

Sam Holland is a product leader and founder with over a decade of experience across several business models, including ads, SaaS, and enterprise with expertise in marketplaces. He has a passion for building new customer-facing products utilizing data, machine learning, and simple design that drive significant business growth. Lastly, Sam values connection and cares deeply about his co workers and users.

Top Skills

18Skills
  • Data20%
  • Analytics20%
  • Advertising Technology (Adtech)20%
  • Product Strategy20%
  • Two-sided Marketplaces20%

Also works with

  • SaaS
  • Machine Learning
  • UX Research
  • Design
  • Advertising
  • Digital Media
  • Product Discovery
  • Social Networks
  • Product Roadmaps
  • Growth
  • Mobile
  • Product Marketing
  • Online Marketing

Experience

  1. Jan 2018 — Jan 2019

    Co-founder | COO | CPO

    Priceflow

    Built a machine-learning algorithm to calculate the price of a car given market conditions and then layered on an elegant insights web app. Led product, marketing, and operations.

  2. Jan 2016 — Jan 2018

    Director of Product Management

    Disqus

    Reported to the CEO and served as the head of product, design, and data. Launched an audience data platform and built out a growth marketing stack. Delivered a SaaS offering which included tens of new products across millions of global customers. These products spanned fraud, toxicity, engagement, monetization, and growth. This SaaS product acted as the catalyst in allowing Disqus to reach profitability for the first time ever. Made contributions that led to four straight profitable quarters which ultimately led to an acquisition by Zeta Global in Q4 2017.

  3. Jan 2014 — Jan 2016

    Senior Product Manager

    AdRoll

    Served as product lead for Prospecting (Adroll's second product). Built the first machine learning-based customer acquisition product on top of a massive advertiser data co-op. Globally scaled the product to be AdRoll's second-largest revenue stream equaling tens of millions of dollars in under two years. Led the product development for AdRoll's real-time bidders for transacting media across global supply marketplaces. Implemented new pacing algorithms, supply optimization, and improvements for ad and user targeting which enabled the team to scale AdRoll's system to over 60 billion daily auctions and 30,000 customers globally. It represented 60% of the annual revenue.

  4. Jan 2010 — Jan 2014

    Senior Product Manager

    AOL

    Served as the product lead who launched Advertising.com's mobile bidding network. Built various supply integrations, new ad serving components, targeting, reporting, and optimization products. This eventually became tens of millions of dollars worth of monthly revenue. Developed our smart pixel, the first dynamic pixel at AOL (Advertising.com), which created audiences based on an advertiser's user attributes. It represented multiple millions of dollars worth of monthly revenue stream. Led a number of other products related to ad quality, viewability, bidding methodologies, targeting, and reporting.

  5. Jan 2009 — Jan 2010

    Associate Consultant

    CSC

    Helped the US Army implement a new global supply system by developing the product requirements, new interfaces, training, testing, and reporting.

Education

  • Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Degree in Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

    James Madison University - Harrisonburg, VA, USA

    2004 - 2008

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