Shutterstock | VP, Content Strategy & Operations | New York, NY | 03/2024 - Present

  • Directed a global team of 250+ professionals across content operations, contributor strategy, product, Applied AI, and localization, ensuring alignment with Shutterstock's overarching business objectives.

  • Managed a multi-million-dollar budget, balancing strategic investments with operational efficiency to support scalable content acquisition and distribution initiatives.

  • Led strategic workforce planning, including hiring, restructuring, and realignment of teams, to adapt to evolving business priorities and maximize organizational impact.

  • Designed and implemented frameworks and processes to operationalize and scale the management of Shutterstock's growing corpus of 1B+ assets, spanning images, video, 3D, and audio.

  • Crafted and executed strategies for measuring content performance, identifying corpus gaps, and driving large-scale content acquisitions to meet market demand.

  • Led initiatives to integrate Applied AI solutions, enhancing content discovery, operational efficiency, and overall revenue generation across Shutterstock’s business lines.

  • Partnered with C-suite executives and cross-departmental teams to align content operations, strategic initiatives, and long-term corporate goals.

Google | Group Product Manager | New York, NY | 03/19-03/24

  • Continued driving the multi-year strategy and roadmap for the Licensed Media Service, ensuring sustained innovation and growth across the platform.

  • Managed a high-performing global team of six FTEs (PMs, PgMs) and 100+ vendors, including Human Evaluators, Analysts, Researchers, and Content Acquisition Specialists, to deliver scalable solutions.

  • Launched support for IPTC metadata integration in all Generative AI experiences at Google in 2023, enhancing metadata standards and aligning with industry best practices.

  • Partnered with Research teams to align on training data strategy and ecosystem product development, driving advancements in AI capabilities and usability.

  • Collaborated closely with research teams to design cutting-edge product experiences leveraging Generative AI, while proactively addressing risks in a rapidly changing technological and regulatory environment.

Google | Senior Product Manager | New York, NY | 03/19-03/23

  • Developed and executed a multi-year strategy and roadmap, successfully launching the Licensed Media Service, an internal Google tool delivering media content (Images, GIFs, Video, Audio) to 100+ product teams, achieving 30B+ daily impressions and 44% YoY growth since 2018.

  • Partnered with cross-functional leadership teams across Travel, Trust, Search, YouTube, and more to align on product roadmaps and launch timelines, driving seamless execution across diverse initiatives.

  • Secured $10M+ in funding from cross-functional stakeholders, scaling a global team of 100+ vendors, including Human Evaluators, Analysts, Researchers, and Content Acquisition Specialists, to deliver operational excellence.

  • Led and mentored a team of six FTEs, including Product Managers, Program Managers, and Content Strategists, fostering high performance and career growth.

  • Served as the primary Product POC for Content Ecosystem and Partnerships, cultivating strategic business development relationships, securing sponsorships, and navigating complex regulatory challenges.

  • Collaborated closely with research teams to design innovative product experiences leveraging Generative AI, ensuring careful risk mitigation in a rapidly evolving technological and regulatory landscape.

Google | Program Manager | New York, NY | 10/15-03/19

• Spearheaded national content creation efforts, photographing and curating imagery for 400+ restaurants monthly, driving scalable visual storytelling.

  • Pioneered a Visual Quality Human Evaluation process, enhancing product health monitoring and ensuring consistently high-quality deliverables.

  • Optimized curation workflows, reducing the cost per rating from ~$8 to ~$0.50, resulting in the curation of ~1M high-quality images, significantly improving operational efficiency.

  • Designed and implemented a robust framework to measure content relevance and quality, driving data-informed improvements to user engagement and satisfaction.

  • Collaborated cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and UX teams to develop an AI-powered classifier, automatically identifying and surfacing high-quality imagery at scale.

  • Conceptualized and piloted a Local Guide Photo Contest tool in partnership with Canon Camera, yielding 22K submissions and 267K images, fostering community engagement and expanding content libraries.

 

The Wall Street Journal | Deputy Director of Photography | New York, NY | 03/15-10/15

• Co-managed a team of 24 photo editors both in print and online

• Established strategies around visual social platforms in conjunction with the social team, Manage lifestyle Instagram accounts.

• Developed products with the tech team that allow the newsroom to more efficiently find and publish for online use.

• Managed the creation and promotion of immersive mobile and digital photo based content

 

Huffington Post/AOL | Director of Photography | New York, NY | 03/12-03/15

• Streamlined Photography workflow within the Newsroom

• Developed products with the tech team that help facilitate the delivery of imagery to AOL & Huff Post staff.

• Created partnerships with several third party photography communities and develop engaging UGC content.

• Worked closely with Business Development on negotiation of photo agency contracts to serve all of AOL/HPMG

• Managed the AOL/HPMG Photography budget, maximizing the available funds to meet the photo needs of all websites.

• Created training courses for internal photo tools, copyright, Photoshop and field photography for editors to attend

 

iHeartRadio | Photo Editor | New York, NY | 02/10-03/12

• Managed the creation of weekly entertainment galleries for 850+ Radio Station websites throughout the U.S.

• Negotiated image rates and contracts for all divisions of Clear Channel including Radio, Premiere and Outdoor.

• Produced celebrity photo shoots, both live and portrait for local and national use.

 

Retna Ltd. | Photographer Liaison | New York, NY | 12/08-02/10

• Managed the portrait submissions for Retna, working closely with photographers to acquire images in a timely fashion for

syndication.

 

Popular Photography | Freelance Photo Editor | New York, NY | 11/07-07/10

• Scoured the Internet to find the best in professional and amateur photography for usage in Popular Photography Magazine using

agency sites and various unusual sources such as Flickr.

• Inspired story ideas by finding interesting photographs and new techniques that may interest the readers.

 

Rolling Stone | Photo Assistant | New York, NY | 7/07-11/08

• Researched images for bi-weekly magazine publication

• Supplied finance with a monthly estimate of production costs from the photo department.

• Managed negative and print returns

 

Future U.S., Inc. | Assistant Photo Editor | New York, NY | 08/05-04/07

• Researched images and produced portrait and product shoots for seven monthly Future US publications.

• Managed photographer invoices and budget for photography department

• Managed a Flickr group centered around music photography and post weekly magazine callouts

 

America Online | Intern Photo Editor | Columbus, OH | 06/04-06/05

• Researched for all channels including News, Entertainment, Lifestyle and Music.

• Worked on extremely tight deadlines, anywhere from a few days to fifteen minutes.

• Managed the Photo of the Week meeting

 

Education

Columbus College of Art & Design: BFA 2004