Elizabeth Haynie

My name is Liz, and I'm a PMI-ACP Certified Agile Practitioner with experience building complex data ingestion pipelines in the legal and finance domains. The idea of parsing valuable insights from elaborate laws or business logic has always excited me. Nearing the end of my junior year as a Communication Studies major at UT Austin, I began to uncover this passion for data. As the 1st woman to receive funding from UT Austin's venture capital fund (Genesis), I developed an AI chatbot that helped entrepreneurs navigate local, state, and federal business laws. Since then, I've worked on a legal citation tool, a criminal expunction eligibility engine, and an ETL pipeline that ingests Fidelity financial account data. 

You can have data. You can even gain insights from it. But ACTION on insights is critical. As a product manager, one of my responsibilities is to define the roadmap describing what our team will build next. Using facts, metrics, and data to guide strategic business decisions aligning with the company's high-level goals and budget is essential.

Benchmarks and metrics are also excellent tools to manage team productivity. Even when it's complicated, setting aside time to measure our progress is crucial. As a platform product manager at SigFig, our team achieved a 49% higher velocity after implementing changes to our Agile processes. These improvements were driven from the bottom up via feedback from team members. 

Three things I hope you take away from this are: I love harnessing the power of data, employing data-driven decision-making, and inspiring team collaboration.

SigFig – #1 Provider of Wealth Management SaaS for Financial Institutions Platform Product Manager 07/22 – 06/23 • Coordinated the launch of 30+ core Platform services for a new client identifying cross-team dependencies • Championed an AWS Cloud product roadmap initiative to expand our data package offering • Owned the Enterprise Data Feed Service offering which enabled financial institutions to receive standardized bulk data exports • As the primary B2B point of contact, defined new operational reports and audit-level exports based on customer needs, resolved issues and handled prioritization of new exports • Improved team velocity by 40% via agile process improvements accelerating product development • Defined and labeled metadata supporting 200+ Adobe marketing email templates Empower Wealth Advisors – Top San Antonio Private Wealth Manager Financial Planning Analyst 06/21– 06/22 • Constructed model investment portfolios and executed trades for a 120M AUM book of business • Primary sales point of contact for the client, planning and designing investment strategies to achieve customer satisfaction, thereby adding business value Easy Expunctions –Early-Stage Startup and Leading Provider of Criminal Record Clearing Developer 09/19 – 09/20 • Tasked to develop products using C#, including an internal payments dashboard Product Manager 11/18 – 08/19 • Conducted user research and collaborated with our design team to improve user experience • Performed market analysis and expanded the Easy Eraser digital footprint product ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE Genesis - UT Austin's Startup Fund, Managed Through a Joint Student-Alumni Partnership Bizbot – 1st Female Founder to be Awarded Funding 08/18 – 08/19 As a student entrepreneur and Genesis venture capital recipient, I built a business plan, pitch deck, pro-forma financial projections and performed competitive market analysis. Project - Neural Net Trading Algo 09/20-06/21 Developer Developed a trading algorithm using Python, Keras and Tensorflow, which recommended swing trades based on fundamental and quantitative data analysis. Garnered 5k followers on Tiktok and received support via donation

University of Texas at Austin – BSc. Communication Studies 

08/16-05/18

Honors & Awards: Summa Cum Laude, 2018 Undergraduate Research Fellowship 

San Antonio College 

08/14 – 05/16