Lauren Akamine Email Address

Mobile Product Manager, Onboarding and User Acquisition

Zipwhip pioneered the concept of utilizing the cloud to enable existing mobile, landline, and toll free numbers to send and receive texts from any connected desktop, tablet or smartphone. Additionally, Zipwhip offers a carrier-grade texting platform to help mobile and landline operators modernize the text messaging medium. Our technology introduces trailblazing functionality while holding true to the distinct culture of texting that consumers have grown to love. Zipwhip cloud texting powers over 18M existing wireless and fixed line phone numbers.

Lauren is a Senior Product Manager with 5+ years experience strategizing with product and engineering teams to build onboarding solutions that increase user acquisition, conversion rates and funnel optimization. Being strategy and execution oriented, she thrives in leveraging A/B testing & quantitative insights to drive the product roadmap and enjoys owning the product process end-to-end with deep experience in building user research programs and turning customer insights into actionable results. Lauren is a results-oriented product leader who excels in leading high growth product initiatives with the goal of boosting user engagement and business impact. Core Competencies: ✓ Early stage startups ✓ Stakeholder buy-in ✓ Product vision & Roadmap planning ✓ B2B & B2C solutions ✓ Web & Mobile Dev ✓ Agile & Scrum ✓ GTM & User acquisition ✓ Feature prioritization & Managing releases ✓ Iterative testing ✓ Funnel optimization ✓ Retention & Acquisition ✓ Competitive intel Technical Skills: ☑ MySQL ☑ APIs & Framework ☑ HTML, CSS & Javascript ☑ Basic Python ☑ Understanding of Java, C++, C#, Swift, Objective-C ☑ Jira ☑ Salesforce ☑ PowerBI ☑ Pendo ☑ Firebase & Google Analytics