Chris H.
5.0
Experienced Growth Product leader to reignite or kickstart product growth
Studied at UCLA Anderson School of Management
Works at LinkedIn
Hiring Manager
Available Wednesday at 2:30 AM UTC
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Chris’s Product Management Qualifications
Experience level: Director of Product
Chris has helped clients get into these companies:
Welcome to my profile! I'm Chris Hatfield, a Director of Product at LinkedIn with a strong background in product management and leadership. With over 10 years of experience at top tech companies like LinkedIn and Facebook, I have a proven track record of building and leading cross-functional teams to deliver growth and drive success. I have successfully launched and scaled products such as Facebook Live, Creator tools, and LinkedIn Learning, impacting hundreds of millions of users worldwide. As a coach, I bring a coaching mentality to developing teams, helping individuals understand their unique contributions and how they connect to achieve something greater. If you're looking to excel in product management and take your career to the next level, let's connect and discuss how I can help you reach your goals.
Chris can help with:
Skill Building
Execution
Promotion Strategy
Strategy & Vision
Influence & Collaboration
Chris also coaches for Leadership Development, Career Development, and Life. View all.
About Chris
I am a product executive with experience building and leading cross-functional teams to deliver growth through both starting new ventures and reigniting established products. I'm currently focused on building LinkedIn’s international member base and previously led product orgs in LinkedIn Learning to promote internal mobility and career development. Prior to that I spent 5 years at Facebook (Meta) where I brought Facebook Live from public figures to hundreds of millions of people, built Facebook’s original Creator strategy, brand, and Creator tools app, and then reignited the Groups product, more than doubling unique user engagement after 3 years of stagnation 10+ years after the product launched. I began my product career as part of the inaugural Product Fellows class through KPCB as a PM at Shazam, the music identification app, building internal Ad creative and A/B testing tools and in addition to weaving music streaming partnership experiences into the app to grow revenue.
Why do I coach?
I approach developing my teams with a coaching mentality, as I firmly believe that the best executing teams are those where everyone understands not just what they can contribute and what each individual stands to gain, but how each person and team connects together to accomplish something beyond their team. I focus on coaching Product Managers looking to grow in their career and/or find a way to balance life and career. If that sounds like you, let's connect! NOTE: I do not coach for how to switch into Product or Product Manager interview/applications.
Work Experience
Director of International Growth
January 2023 - Present
Hiring Manager
Making LinkedIn a global product and helping connect member growth to success for all of our lines of business. Business Insights and Product Leadership
Director of Talent Management
June 2021 - January 2023
Hiring Manager
I worked on multiple projects to help people land their #nextplay including job collections for job seekers to find their next opportunity at companies they had yet to discover and internal mobility features to help employees find opportunities they had yet to uncover at their current company within LinkedIn Learning. Led the M&A efforts to acquire Paddle HR and accelerate our internal mobility work like career goal-based learning recommendations and surfacing internal jobs on LinkedIn Learning. Analytical Skills, Leadership Development and +3 skills
Head of Product - Growth
November 2018 - June 2021
Hiring Manager
• Established and lead a team of 10 PMs and 120+ XFN to scale Facebook Community products, including Groups, Campus, Neighborhoods, and Events, to billions of people. • Created growth culture in org; brought key stakeholders onboard through brown bag sessions, 1:1s with key team members, and a clear and transparent strategy of how Growth really means building user value. • Executed growth strategy amidst pressure from VPs and App Leads to drive for a key Facebook priority ahead of our May 2019 F8 announcement that Groups would be central to the fabric of the app. Analytical Skills, Leadership Development and +5 skills
Group Product Manager
June 2017 - November 2018
Hiring Manager
• Built a team of 4 PMs and 60+ XFN from zero to shift Video efforts towards individual Video Creators; launched new brand, creator tools app, and educational website to serve as a home (https://www.facebook.com/creators). Analytical Skills, Strategy and +3 skills
Growth Product Manager
April 2016 - December 2017
• Grew Facebook Live from alpha testing through global launch with hundreds of millions people using daily; negotiated across orgs to position “Go Live” action in the main composer to drive prominence and usage. • Redesigned content delivery system for Live notifications and News Feed stories to accommodate real-time nature of content; decreased time to first view and notification latency leading to increased broadcaster retention and Live video watch time. Analytical Skills, Strategy and +2 skills
Member
Reforge
June 2016 - September 2016
Selected into the Reforge Growth series Analytical Skills
Growth Product Manager
Shazam
July 2015 - April 2016
Hiring Manager
In charge of revenue growth via music streaming integrations. Built features that turned core use cases into monetizable journeys while adding more value to the user. Led the product integration of one-touch Pandora radio stations from Shazam track pages. Analytical Skills, Strategy and +2 skills
Senior Product Manager
Shazam
June 2014 - July 2015
In charge of enhancing the value proposition for people who Shazam TV shows. We revamped an internal editor tool so that the production team could scale their tentpole efforts and tested various changes to the basic TV track page. Additionally, I worked with team of 6 engineers to create A/B testing platform in HTML to understand how TV track page changes affected user behavior at scale. Analytical Skills and Product Strategy
Product Fellow
Kleiner Perkins
June 2014 - June 2015
Education
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing & Technology
2012 - 2014
Admissions Committee Experience
Activities and societies: Marketing Association, High Tech Business Association, Anderson Student Association, Admissions Ambassador Corp, Wine Club, Anderson Tennis Club, ACT Coach (Tech) Honors: Edward Carter Fellow (top 2% of class), Deloitte Award (top master’s thesis), Merit Fellowship Teaching Assistant: Market Assessment & Consumer Segmentation; Parker Career Series Leadership Positions: VP of Career Development for High Tech Business Association - Created the Tech Business Association recruiting handbook, led case prep workshop for over 200 UCLA Anderson students. Tech Recruiting Coach - Mentored 10 first year MBA students through the Tech recruiting process. Co-President, Tennis Club; Co-President, Wine Club.
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts, Business Economics (major), International Relations (minor)
2002 - 2006
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Overall Rating
5.0
Chris has helped clients get into these companies: