Jairo Cantillo

Sr Product Lead

2022 - Current

Mentor and Investor

2021

Helping and learning with early stage companies with their product, growth and scaling challenges. Investing in Honey Island's portfolio companies.

Head of Product

2018 - 2022

- Lead the product management team for the customer facing squads (growth, activation, engagement, fintech, mobile and experimentation). - Recruiting, team building and skill development for product management and leadership positions. - Together with C-level and company leadership, actively participate in strategy definition, team structure, goal setting, budgeting and OKR definitions. - Led the product fintech initiative from zero to 1, launching financial products (bank accounts, collections and credit operations) within the platform. The new products increased LTV, customer engagement and reduced churn. - Led the product team in the creation of new customer pricing plans which brought significant MRR increases and customer satisfaction. - Worked on redesigning the customer activation journey, improving funnel conversion, reducing contact rate and accelerating the customer's incorporation process, accelerating MRR. - Built and led the design team until 2021

Product Manager

2017 - 2022

Creating the best possible customer experience for one of the best and fastest growing Startups in LatAm! Learning and sharing knowledge with a passionate team of people. - Product Research - Customer interviewing & Design techniques - Tech & product team alignment and management - Data analytics - Product experiments - Scaling and releasing

Founder

2012 - 2017

Software and hardware projects for industrial processes. Custom projects for large clients in the energy, HVAC industry and AgroTech sectors. The company focused on building automation and monitoring tools for industrial applications. One of our products was ConnectAll, an IoT solution that allowed machines and industrial processes to be monitored and controlled from the cloud. Designed and worked directly on the hardware, firmware and software solution. Stack used: C (firmware), Relational and NoSql databases, Industrial protocols (Modbus, SNMP, CanBus, etc), MQTT, Java, Azure/AWS as cloud solutions.

Siemens PT&D Project Team Lead

2008 - 2011

Worked as the Siemens PT&D Project Team Lead. Responsible for team management, product and technical design and implementation. Worked together with the Minneapolis, MN, USA team to bring solutions to life in the Energy transmission and distribution industry. Programming in C, C++, Pascal, Object pascal for highly secure and resilient applications

Siemens PT&D SCADA Team Lead

2005 - 2007

Worked as the SCADA team lead for the Brazilian team for the Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution project. Team lead for the supervisory control team, responsible for technical design and implementation. Software engineering, design and development for energy distribution and transmission applications. Strong interaction with the R&D team based in Minneapolis, MN/USA.

Hardware Engineer

2005 - 2006

Developed electronics (hardware and firmware) for energy measurement equipment and telemetry. Electronic Circuit and PCB Design. Firmware design and implementation. Solution developed on C & Assembly for firmware, Java for control software.

Distribution and Transmission Intern

2002 - 2004

Develop mobile software for registering and transmission lines projects. RTU and laboratory maintenance.