Grandin Donovan

Current

Product Manager at Dailymotion.com

Past

Creative Manager, US at Dailymotion.com
Associate Editor at Refinery29.com
Investigator at Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB)

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Education

New York University

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Grandin Donovan’s Summary

I'm a product manager at Dailymotion.com. I work with a great development team to make the site better for users and stakeholders.

I enjoy product management because it comprehends a variety of needs and disciplines: business goals, iterative development, resource management, information architecture, interface design and content strategy.

At Dailymotion I have led projects across the board: key page redesigns, SEO, localization, Facebook Connect and OpenID, and many content and technology partner integrations. I try to see the big picture, ask the right questions, and synthesize the development axes of our site.

I love technology and science, but also history and the humanities. Ultimately I hope to work on digital cultural heritage and education projects.

Grandin Donovan’s Specialties:

product management, web video, iPhone, information architecture, interface design, functional specification, wireframing, localization, benchmarking, copywriting

Grandin Donovan’s Experience

Product Manager

Dailymotion.com

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Dailymotion is a web video platform and a ComScore and Alexa Top 50 site. We serve approximately 45 million unique users monthly. I am responsible for new feature planning and the product development lifecycle, including:
- requirement collection from local and remote teams
- use case definition, functional specification, wireframing
- management of feature development, debugging, launch and maintenance

Current and Ongoing Projects: roadmap management, site header, object revamps, wayfinding, pattern library definition, partner technical relations, training and technical support for international teams

Past Projects: video player page, registration and authentication, OpenID, Facebook Connect, localization, content ingestion, language filters, comment localization

Grandin Donovan’s Education

New York University

BA , Honors English Major, Journalism Minor , 1998 — 2002

Magna Cum Laude

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Grandin Donovan’s Interests:

new media, art and architecture, language and linguistics, cultural history, late antiquity and the Wandering Age, cities and urban history, food, traveling, sucking the marrow, generally