Bill Watt

Current

• Director of Product Management at Outright

Past

• Director, Online Product Management at Current TV
• Group Product Manager at eBay
• Sr. Product Manager at eBay

• Sr. Product Manager at FairMarket
• Corporate Account Manager at CompUSA
• Inventory Control Coordinater at NECX
• Assistant to the President at Athena Design

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Education

• Gordon College

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Bill Watt’s Summary

I joined FairMarket in May of 1998 and worked for 5.5 years in Product and Account Management as well as Sales Engineering. In these roles I helped the Business Development team close deals and then supported the customers when they signed. eBay acquired the assets of the company in 2003 and I moved out to support the application and specifically the customers served by the Strategic Partnerships Group. We've expanded the role of the team to include a second platform that was developed inside eBay to provide rapid country deployment and have grown all parts of the team (product development, QA, and PM) in response to the increased demand for our services.

Bill Watt’s Specialties:

Product Manager & Sales Engineer

Bill Watt’s Experience

• Director of Product Management

  Outright

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Director, Online Product Management

  Current TV

  (Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

  February 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 8 months)

• Group Product Manager

  eBay

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  March 2007 — December 2007 (10 months)

  In addition to the responsibilities described in the previous section, we expanded the team to include an additional platform and the developers and QA teams that support it. This platform (ROW) was originally developed to support expansion into international markets and launched sites in Europe and Asia.
  
  Since the most recent reorganization, I now report into the VP for New Business and manage a team of Product Managers that support the FairMarket and ROW platforms. My team develops innovative solutions for our internal and external customers and supports the New Business objectives. Some of the sites built by the team include (in addition to the sites already listed in the previous position):
  
  FairMarket:
  
  http://www.ebaymediamarketplace.com
  http://auctions.samsclub.com
  http://auctions.livenation.com
  
  ROW:
  
  http://global.ebay.com/
  http://mapit.ebay.com/
  http://dealfinder.ebay.com (also available for the UK, DE, and AU)

• Sr. Product Manager

  eBay

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EBAY; Internet industry)

  September 2003 — February 2007 (3 years 6 months)

  Since moving to eBay most of the team has continued to support the FairMarket platform and the various applications leveraged by eBay:
  
  * Private Marketplaces-
  Working in an ASP model, we power custom B2B marketplaces that leverage dynamic pricing formats to maximize return for the site owners.
  
  http://b2bmotors.ebay.in/
  http://www.ebay.com/reseller
  http://wholesale.netflix.com
  http://seven19.fairmarket.co.uk/ (HP Europe)
  http://auction.eclipseaviation.com/
  
  * Loyalty and Promotions-
  At eBay our platform has powered points-based programs for Coke, Dr. Pepper, Hershey's, Valvoline and many others. These were tied into the eBay authentication system to make it easy for our community to gain access to the program benefits. An example of a non-point based promotional is: http://ebaysupplies.usps.com
  
  * Custom Content Sites-
  The platform was also leveraged as a promotional tool for partners.
  
  http://affiliates.ebay.com
  http://sun.ebay.com/
  http://transformers.ebay.com

• Sr. Product Manager

  FairMarket

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

  May 1998 — September 2003 (5 years 5 months)

  FairMarket was the leading provider of private-label dynamic pricing solutions with customers like Dell, CompUSA, Sam's, Microsoft, Lycos, Excite, FreeServe and a ton more. The assets were purchased by eBay in Sept '03. I was the Sr Product Manager for API's and Integration and continue to support the platform now owned by eBay.

• Corporate Account Manager

  CompUSA

  (Public Company; CPU; Retail industry)

  June 1997 — May 1998 (1 year )

  Number carrying account manager rep in the business sales organization.

• Inventory Control Coordinater

  NECX

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1996 — June 1997 (1 year 6 months)

  Managed the inventory and reporting across one physical and 15 virtual (linked via EDI) warehouses.

• Assistant to the President

  Athena Design

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1994 — December 1995 (1 year 4 months)

Bill Watt’s Education

• Gordon College

  BA , History , August 1988 — May 1992

Additional Information

Bill Watt’s Websites:

• My Blog

Bill Watt’s Groups:

•    eBay Employees and Alumni Group
•    Gordon College Alumni
•    FairMarket Alumni
•    Broadcast Meeting

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