Jesus Bouzada

Owned Workiva Scripting through Limited Availability — grew adoption 5x+ year over year and held momentum even after development resources were redirected to the Workflow Management strategic initiative. Authored the strategic proposal to resume investment in Scripting and move it to General Availability. Secured leadership and key stakeholder buy-in for the 18-month roadmap.

Took Workiva Scripting — pro-code workflow automation letting customers automate manual work in Workiva using Python — from prototype to paid early-access product, and helped Workiva secure millions in revenue. In parallel, owned four concurrent platform infrastructure initiatives — developer platform (CLI + IPS), event streaming, and notifications — that became the foundation for service development across Workiva engineering and underpinned the company's region-expansion and cloud-migration programs.

Hired to productize a service-led AI business, leading a strategic shift to enable start-up growth.

In this role, I

• Got leadership buy-in for pivoting the strategy to shorten delivery by a third and significantly reduced development/deployment cost
• Transitioned one-off solution to a multitenant SaaS product while leading two teams (20+ devs) and managing client’s expectations
• Built an expert system with engineers and data scientists
• Developed success metrics to prove value and earn customer trust
• Influenced data ingestion architectural decisions to build to scale
• Built a demo that enabled strategic client engagements while complying with customer data privacy policies

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• Key contributor in a product management team that created vision, positioning, strategy, and roadmap for a strategic suite of cloud-based, real-time products targeting $60M of annual sales
• Conducted competitive analyses to gather data and generate insights in support of vision, strategy, roadmap, and pricing
• Led a customer community to get information to align business priorities with their needs and design an intuitive experience
• Timely updated leadership and customers to ensure buy-in
• Selected 3rd party partners through capabilities and strategic alignment analysis. Managed and developed relationships
• Actively engaged in daily scrus and sprint planning, defining and prioritizing tasks, and grooming the backlog

• Coordinated cross-functional teams including engineers, designers, data scientists, marketers, support, and sales to ship software products for a $100M platform portfolio
• Delivered rollout talks in a number of conferences, which generated new sales opportunities. The conferences were hosted in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Jakarta (Indonesia), Perth (Australia), and Beijin (China)
• Built a startup-like solution that enabled a multimillion-dollar contract win, communicating effectively to the VP of product

• Led a team developing in-house product from conception to launch that supported a $10M real-time monitoring business
• Built a high performing team by mentoring junior developers
• Introduced business driven requirements and design process that led to a 17% increase in user efficiency in key workflows
• Developed administrator features and a deployment guide for our O&G production framework. Trained administrators worldwide
• Provided software architecture insights to senior leadership that led to business decisions such as a team international relocation

• Managed four successful in-house product launches instrumental for a $1.5B engineering business
• Acted as a key liaison between business and engineering
• Provided worldwide support for 900 customers (who reported that the product was essential to their job) and managed business requirements
• Pioneered Agile software development in the company shortening project development cycles and adapting based on feedback
• Led lean methodology introduction in a center of 300 employees implementing initiatives that delivered savings of more than $80K annually by increasing efficiency
• Created a DevOps culture in a group of 20 developers, this resulted in savings of $150K per year