Martin Eriksson

Current

Product Director at Huddle.net

Past

Social Media Strategy at Financial Times
Online Recruitment Strategy at Financial Times
Director of Product Management at Shopzilla

Solutions Director, Europe at Monster Worldwide
European Product Manager at Monster.com
Web Site Director at Dressmart.com
Web Designer at Allt om Stockholm
Web Designer at Freelance (Self-employed)

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Education

Linköpings universitet
SSHL

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Martin Eriksson’s Summary

I am an experienced product manager with a passion for the internet and web delivered content and services. I have a background in world class local, european and global internet properties.

Martin Eriksson’s Specialties:

International product and project management, design and usability of web delivered content or services

Martin Eriksson’s Experience

Product Director

Huddle.net

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

Reporting to the CEO, I am responsible for the product strategy and tactics, own the roadmap and work with the team to build a world class user experience while maximising revenue growth.
Social Media Strategy

Financial Times

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PSON; Newspapers industry)

June 2008 — November 2008 (6 months)

Reporting to the board on developing a strategy for social media.
Online Recruitment Strategy

Financial Times

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; PSO; Internet industry)

April 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Appointed by the Managing Editor and Publisher of FT.com and the board to develop a strategic plan for online recruitment products to match the Financial Times' historical strength in print recruitment advertising. In implementing the strategy I led the acquisition of Exec-Appointments.com, from selection to negotiation and due diligence through to integration. Post-integration I worked on developing the EA product, from product development to marketing and business intelligence.
Director of Product Management

Shopzilla

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

January 2007 — March 2007 (3 months)

Defined first European product road map and built the first local european product and project management team.
Solutions Director, Europe

Monster Worldwide

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MNST; Internet industry)

August 2002 — December 2006 (4 years 5 months)

Reporting to European Head of Operations, managing Monster’s advanced solutions products, with four direct and 20 indirect reports to deliver and product manage web based e-recruiting solutions to SMB and enterprise clients throughout Europe. Grew solutions business by 350% over 3 years.
European Product Manager

Monster.com

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MNST; Internet industry)

September 2000 — August 2002 (2 years )

Managed implementation, development and maintenance of Monster's product & content across 14 European countries. Increased European e-commerce over 203%. Was key driver of pan-European website redesigns.
Web Site Director

Dressmart.com

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

March 2000 — September 2000 (7 months)

Dressmart.com was an online retailer of high quality mens fashion. Led team of six web designers and developers; jointly responsible for 8 webmasters across European organization. Improved site conversion rate from on average 2.3% to 5.1%.
Web Designer

Allt om Stockholm

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

March 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Initially a web designer and later the design manager for this leading online city guide for Stockholm, at the time a CitySearch partner. I oversaw 2 complete ground-up redesigns from concept to hands-on coding to release.
Web Designer
Freelance (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

June 1996 — June 1998 (2 years 1 month)

Freelance web designer working directly for end clients and together with larger web agencies like Wognum AB.

Martin Eriksson’s Education

Linköpings universitet

BA , International Business Administration , 1995 — 1998

Activities and Societies:

Student Union, School Newspaper, Rugby Team
SSHL

IB , International Baccalaureate , 1994 — 1995