Hanzel Corella
Product Manager
Location
Houston, TX, United States
Toptal Member Since
November 11, 2019
For over ten years, Hanzel has been launching new products for both startups and Fortune 500 companies. He’s worked in eCommerce, energy, consumer foods, healthcare, fintech, ride-sharing, IoT (internet of things), and solar power industries. As a product consultant, digital marketer, and director of a creative agency, Hanzel is well versed in digital marketing, UX design, and web and mobile development. Hanzel will help you acquire new customers while improving your marketing funnel strategy.
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Hire HanzelProject Highlights
Direct Your Energy
Led product design and development of the first energy disaggregation customer insights platform.
Soundmob
Served as the founder and CEO of a social music-streaming startup and showcased mobile app at South by Southwest (SXSW).
Pay On Delivery
Brought an Amazon Prime-like experience to peer-to-peer marketplaces such as Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace.
Expertise
Data AnalyticsFeature RoadmapsProduct MarketingRequirements & SpecificationsTechnical Product ManagementUX AnalysisUser ResearcheCommerceEducation
Master's Degree
Boston University
Bachelor's Degree
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Work Experience
2019 - PRESENT
Head of Product
Pay On Delivery
- Contributed to documenting and implementing every field, attribute, and business rule associated with MasterCard Send, Facebook Pay, and Uber APIs meticulously.
- Developed marketing strategies and hired a team of content, video, and social media managers to increase conversion and reduce the CTA to below $2.
- Designed new user journeys (UX) that increased conversion by 100%. It required the creation of new technology stack and roadmap.
- Conducted market research in the fintech industry. Interviewed customers to generate compelling use cases, a new brand, and new product features.
- Redesigned the homepage and subsequent user journeys. Wrote the content, tested it using A/B methodology, and launched a new brand, which increased the conversion rate by over 100%.
2020 - 2021
Senior Product Manager: Sales Intelligence and Marketing Automation
PepsiCo
- Built a rule-based automation platform for managing multiple keyword campaigns on eCommerce sites like Amazon and Walmart. Our tool managed over 10 million in monthly spending and increased efficiency.
- Partnered with sales directors in FLNA and PBNA to ingest out-of-stock information from various retailers and send alerts and notifications to field reps, increasing our eCommerce fulfilled orders by 5–10%.
- Led the redesign of our eCommerce sales intelligence platform. Wrote the requirements for the pages, tables, and visualizations of this data analytics tool.
2020 - 2020
Product Owner
Anthem
- Performed the duties of a project manager, system analyst, and product manager for the IngenioRx Pharmacy Benefits app. Interviewed business stakeholders and translated requirements into easily executable stories and team tasks.
- Led a remote Toptal team to develop an app that allows users to order prescription medication. Anthem is a huge company. The challenge was capturing all that drug data, business rules, health plans, and scenarios into an easy-to-use mobile app.
- Wrote system requirements for API layer, aggregation layer, and front-end React Native development. This required detailed documentation of the business rules, fields, and system configurations in Confluence and stories in Jira.
- Reported progress to management and resolved risks across the organization.
2017 - 2019
Managing Director
Elevation Studio
- Sold over $1 million in tech, design, and marketing services.
- Grew the agency team from five to 50 employees in three countries.
- Developed and launched over ten consumer-facing mobile apps, websites, and startups.
- Implemented design thinking and agile development processes internally and externally as a consultant.
2016 - 2016
Product Manager
Centrica
- Developed go-to-market strategies for the mobile app controlling the Hive branded suite of smart devices in the US.
- Designed new features and wrote requirements for our energy insights online platform collaboratively.
- Prepared market research, web analytics, and presentations.
- Initiated technology pilots to validate business cases.
2014 - 2016
Product Manager
Direct Energy
- Launched two customer-facing $5-million projects that increased retention, on-time payments, and differentiation.
- Led a cross-functional team to create a mobile app and online energy insights platform available to over 6 million users.
- Developed a sales bundling tool that impacted 60% of new sales by combining home IoT devices and energy contracts.
- Evaluated new value propositions.
- Established and managed relationships with partners and vendors that led to a $20-million venture acquisition.
2011 - 2013
Process Engineer
Direct Energy
- Streamlined the process from customer enrollment to commodity hedging improving our operational profitability by 6%.
- Improved customer consumption regression models using econometric techniques and designed a new short-term forecasting system for over 2 million residential and commercial customers.
Project History
Direct Your Energy
https://www.directenergy.com/direct-your-energyLed product design and development of the first energy disaggregation customer insights platform.
Are you tired of getting a big energy bill 30 days after your billing cycle? Now you can see what your household is spending daily on electricity.
With our new machine learning techniques, we can tell you which appliances are causing most of your electricity cost and suggest ways to reduce your bill.
With our new machine learning techniques, we can tell you which appliances are causing most of your electricity cost and suggest ways to reduce your bill.
Soundmob
Served as the founder and CEO of a social music-streaming startup and showcased mobile app at South by Southwest (SXSW).
The Soundmob mobile app allows users to sync multiple smartphones and Bluetooth speakers to stream music simultaneously. This feature not only amplifies the sound but also has fun social features like making collaborative playlists and taking turns being a DJ in real-time.
Club House Now
Led product design and development of the first Uber Eats experience for luxury golf courses. Now the clubhouse comes to you.
ClubCorp owns over 100 luxury golf courses across the world. The Club House Now experience comes with a mobile app and point of sale (POS) system that allows for a consistent omnichannel customer experience that makes it fun and convenient ordering food, scheduling tee times, and using club amenities.
Pay On Delivery
http://payondelivery.comBrought an Amazon Prime-like experience to peer-to-peer marketplaces such as Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace.
Pay On Delivery handles online payment and shipping for people-to-people transactions that typically take place via cash in a parking lot. The new POD process will make buying items on Facebook Marketplace and OfferUp safe and convenient.
Education
2009 - 2011
Master's Degree in Economics
Boston University - Boston, MA, USA
2005 - 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA, USA