Adam Hanig (adam@adamhanig.com)

Current

Product Manager at Somewhere

Past

Product Manager at Blist
Co-Founder, Press Lead at skillbit
Field Manager at Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.

Field Organizer at Iowa Democratic Party
Phone Bank Director at Hackett for Congress
Core Canvasser at Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.
Intern at Senator Patty Murray
Richter Apprentice Scholar at Lake Forest College

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Education

The Johns Hopkins University

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Industry

Internet

Adam Hanig (adam@adamhanig.com)’s Summary

Adam Hanig (adam@adamhanig.com)’s Specialties:

Product Management
Business Development
Sales
Analytics

Adam Hanig (adam@adamhanig.com)’s Experience

Product Manager

Somewhere

(Internet industry)

May 2008 — Present (6 months)
Product Manager

Blist

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)

* Cultivated a passionate user base by adopting twitter as an outreach channel, moderating forums, and conducting offline interviews. Interpreted user requests to identify new features and drive prioritization.
* Spearheaded product roadmap in consultation with the CEO and other team members. Presented directly to the Board of Directors.
* Created actionable metrics that accurately reflected product use.
Co-Founder, Press Lead

skillbit

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 2008 — February 2008 (2 months)

skillbit™ is a web based application that:
-Discovers your team’s skills and resources
-Archives the information
-Provides intelligence about skills and talent availability
Field Manager

Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Political Organization industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

* Top fundraiser, averaging more than three times the office mean in an extensive canvassing campaign. Achieved results by rapidly establishing a strong rapport and personal credibility with contacts.
* Designed and taught a novel training regimen that noticeably enhanced entire staff's performance. Actively led teams of three to five canvassers.
* Pioneered use of Google Earth, Zillow, and MapPoint to identify lucrative geographical areas and lead the most successful field excursions.
Field Organizer

Iowa Democratic Party

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Political Organization industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

* Outperformed vote goal by 7.9% and took third place out of eighteen offices despite having no discretionary budget. Carrying the county with a 25.3% margin of victory was instrumental to a statewide margin of 9.8%.
* Established and administered an office tasked with identifying, persuading and mobilizing county's Democratic vote. Responsibilities included tracking the opposition's media strategy and acting as liason to area campaigns and officials.
* Recruited, managed, and trained over 200 volunteers. Created a simple and inexpensive method of scheduling volunteers by adapting Outlook's ability to relate contacts and shifts. Cultivated a core group of activists that assumed roles traditionally held by paid staff.
* Employed a nationally recognized database to project voter preference and prepare lists. Deployed MapPoint to partition precincts into volunteer friendly areas and developed custom spreadsheets and macros to generate intuitive contact sheets.
Phone Bank Director

Hackett for Congress

(Political Organization industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

* Established and directed campaign's largest phone bank.
* Recruited, coordinated, and trained volunteers to be used across the entire campaign.
* Executed impromptu projects and responsibilities, including script writing and press research.
Core Canvasser

Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Political Organization industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

* Top fundraiser in office of thirty people, averaging more than twice the mean.
* Expanded DNC's donor base through an extensive canvassing campaign.
* Trained and led teams of four to twenty canvassers. Responsible for planning turf, motivating staff, and leading field excursions.
Intern

Senator Patty Murray

(Government Administration industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

* Authored responses to constituent inquiries.
* Researched issues on behalf of staff, including the Legislative Director.
* Reported on briefings and hearings in proxy for Legislative Assistants.
Richter Apprentice Scholar

Lake Forest College

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

* Engineered the basis for a new model to express a gene disorder.
* Designed and implemented novel research strategies.