Matt Disco
Matt Leiker is a seasoned product manager with over 8 years of experience in mobile development, 6 years in customer loyalty, and 5 years in interactive storytelling. Leiker approaches building consumer products with a strong, user-centric intuition and has gained overlapping expertise in core areas such as point-of-sale systems, credit card payments, and online ordering. Leiker fosters positive attitudes, accountability, and self-motivated teams through his people-first style of leadership. He is adept at identifying high-potential ideas as well as developing executive-level narratives to champion a product or strategy. Leiker is self-aware with a high emotional intelligence, able to read a room and take a user problem-oriented approach to development. He has gained training in agile iterative/scrum and waterfall dev methodologies, anti-racism, and unconscious bias. Leiker is well-versed in a range of software tools, including JIRA+Confluence, Slack, Dropbox, Google Docs, MS Office as well as analytics tools Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Omniture, and creative tools of Pixelmator, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Keynote.
Leiker has worked as Senior Product Manager at ChowNow, Group Product Manager at Clover Network, Inc., Senior Mobile Product Manager at Applico, and Senior Producer at Big Spaceship, among other notable roles. Leiker is also an advisory board member for nonprofit ioby.org and is interested in live music, yoga, urban gardening, authentic and empathetic experiences, and increasing empathy.