Ari Mir

Current

• Co-founder/CPO at GumGum.com

Past

• Director of Product Management at LowerMyBills.com
• Product Manager at ShopZilla.com
• Co-Founder at Mojungle.com

• Publisher at EATING Magazine
• Paid Intern at Twentieth Century FOX Television

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Education

• University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Ari Mir’s Experience

• Co-founder/CPO

  GumGum.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2008 — Present (7 months)

• Director of Product Management

  LowerMyBills.com

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2007 — April 2008 (9 months)

• Product Manager

  ShopZilla.com

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2005 — August 2007 (1 year 10 months)

  Responsible for driving the product vision of 8 major e-commerce sites (across 4 countries) to achieve both short and long term business objectives.
  
  • Managing the BizRate product by redefining the vision and creating/executing upon a respective roadmap.
  - Responsible for multivariable tests for Shopzilla and BizRate, resulting in $32 million in projected annualized revenue.
  - Assessing key performance metrics, usability analyses and industry trends in brainstorming and presenting business cases for product changes.
  - Authoring business requirement, product requirement, navigation flow, and use case documents.
  - Managing products cross-functionally from inception to post launch analysis, collaborating with R&D, Sales, Usability, SEO, Engineering and QA.

• Co-Founder

  Mojungle.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Founded, built and sold a mobile social network.
  
  • Sold Mojungle to PeakPSI, a software solutions company, and ShoZu.com, a mobile media sharing company.
  - Developed a fixed licensing strategy.
  - Managed press communications (GigaOM, Mashable!, etc).
  
  • Built and executed the product roadmap.
  - Performed an industry analysis on the mobile space, identifying mobile media sharing as an unfulfilled consumer need.
  - Conducted a technical analysis on mobile development environments, identifying the strengths and weakness of BREW, Symbian, J2ME, and SMS/MMS.
  - Outlined product specifications for Mojungle’s Flash widget, back-end SMS/MMS parser and front-end web interface.
  - Managed third party firm in creating a logo and a design schema.
  - Established usability labs to gather feedback on product development decisions.

• Publisher

  EATING Magazine

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  June 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 5 months)

  Founded and published an epicurean lifestyle magazine for Los Angeles.
  
  • Responsible for all aspects of starting a business and running the day-to-day operations.
  - Managed a 9-person team comprised of editors, photographers, designers, writers and account managers.
  - Recruited an editorial executive from Condé Nast and a sales director from Los Angeles Magazine.
  
  • Developed a product for an unmet consumer segment of the magazine industry.
  - Identified the strengths and weaknesses of indirect competitors (Zagat, Gourmet, etc).
  - Produced the editorial view, visual layouts and production specifications.
  
  • Handled the publication’s business development and marketing needs.
  - Increased circulation to 20k by establishing a distribution network consisting of over 500 newsstands, supermarkets and bookstore chains.
  - Reduced printing costs 40% by traveling to China to find alternative printing solutions.

• Paid Intern

  Twentieth Century FOX Television

  (Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 1 month)

  Developed profitability forecasting software for the CFO and Vice President of Twentieth Century FOX Television.
  
  • Helped gather, document and interpret the business unit requirements for major participant backend deals and structures.

Ari Mir’s Education

• University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

  BS, Business - Management Consulting, 2000 — 2003

  - Business Scholar