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Eric Hellweg
Eric Hellweg Senior Director of Product, One Medical at Amazon

Eric Hellweg is a distinguished professional in the field of software development, with a notable entrepreneurial flair for product, editorial, and digital strategy leadership. Boasting a sizable network of 3,684 LinkedIn connections, Hellweg currently excels as the Senior Director of Product at One Medical, part of Amazon, in the Greater Boston area. Their impressive career portfolio showcases a consistent ability to drive organizational change, initiate successful launches of businesses and products, and engage in effective communication, both within groups and on a larger scale.

With a strong presence in the academic sphere, Hellweg serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School in New York City, where they impart their knowledge on Product Management to MBA students. Additionally, as a Product and Digital Strategy Consultant since October 2019, Hellweg advises diverse industry clients on enhancing their recurring revenues through strategic product development, content, and user engagement. Noteworthy clients include Facebook, AccuWeather, Walmart, and CUNY, demonstrating Hellweg's versatility and influence across multiple sectors. Previously, they spearheaded product and design at Pocket, where their team significantly increased revenue and user traffic, and at The New York Times, they achieved substantial growth and innovation in product offerings under their stewardship.

Hellweg's educational background compliments their professional expertise, with executive education in Media Strategies from Harvard Business School and in Finance from Columbia Business School, further solidifying their authority as a leader in product and digital strategies. Their standing as a visionary in software development and a prime influencer in the realms of editorial and magazines is undeniable.

More about this expert

Full name
Eric Hellweg
Location
Greater Boston
Title
Senior Director of Product, One Medical
Company
Amazon
Industry
Software Development
LinkedIn Connections
3684
Summary
Experienced entrepreneurial product, editorial, and digital strategy leader adept at driving organizational change, successfully launching new businesses and products, and communicating to groups large and small
Skills
Magazines Editorial

Education

Harvard Business School
Executive Education
Field of study: Media Strategies
Columbia Business School
Executive Education
Field of study: Finance

Positions

Amazon
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote
Senior Director of Product, One Medical
Jul 2022 - Present
Columbia Business School
New York, New York, United States
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
Aug 2020 - Present

I teach various Product Management courses for the Columbia MBA program
Product and Digital Strategy Consultant
Greater New York City Area
Product and Digital Strategy Consultant
Oct 2019 - Present

Working across industries to help clients drive recurring revenues through effective product, content, and user engagement strategies. Selected current clients include:

--Facebook (via their Journalism Project; consulting with several international newspaper companies to revamp their subscription product mix)
--AccuWeather (working to build their subscription revenue lines of business)
--Walmart (training and facilitating product management thinking and agile best practices)
--CUNY (various editorial and events projects)
Pocket
Head of Product & Design
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022

--Led a cross-platform team of product managers, designers, project managers, and researchers
--Building better experiences for 10s of millions of people
--Partnered with revenue and editorial teams to help drive 50% year-over-year revenue growth, 75% year-over-year traffic growth.
--Co-led partnership with marketing to improve acquisition and retention strategies and tactics
--Partnered with senior leaders across Firefox and Mozilla to drive innovation and user growth across the organization
--Implemented a test-and-learn approach to development that led to more performant feature releases
The New York Times
Greater New York City Area
Vice President of Product
May 2018 - Oct 2019

Selected accomplishments:

• Hand-selected by COO Meredith Kopit Levien to lead cross-functional group to reimagine the business model of NYT. Presented weekly to Executive Committee and had our final recommendations approved by AG Sulzberger.
• Led five product teams with ~60 x-functional team members, overseeing NYT home page, 60+ email newsletter portfolio, audio, video, personalization, and article page
• Relaunched the homepage of NYTimes.com, exceeding critical KPI goals
• Relaunched “The Morning Briefing,” the largest newsletter, growing habituated readers by >10%
• Launched new Breaking News editorial product for large-scale news stories
• Led a x-functional group to identify the user needs and “jobs to be done” for NYT.
• Drove new partnerships with the newsroom “unlike anything we’ve done before,” per masthead leadership