Bazaarvoice SVP of Global Product on The Long and Short of Creating a Durable Product Strategy

Marissa Jones

Bazaarvoice, SVP of Global Product

As Senior Vice President, Global Product, Marissa leads Bazaarvoice’s product organization focusing on product management, UX, and product strategy. With over 18 years in the technology industry, Marissa has a wide range of global experience, pertaining to product management and go-to-market execution. Marissa has been with Bazaarvoice for 12 years, during which she led the platform, client experience and consumer experience portfolios before moving into the overall organizational leader. She served as the main product lead through the acquisition of Curalate, which expanded the social commerce capabilities of Bazaarvoice up-funnel. She most recently served as the executive sponsor of the acquisition of Granify, adding contextual commerce capabilities to help drive consumer conversion. Prior to Bazaarvoice, Marissa spent almost five years with Microsoft. She served as the product management lead for launching infrastructure-as-a-service on Windows Azure, and helped manage product launches while measuring global success of Microsoft’s web platform. Prior to that, she spent just under two years at Accenture as a consultant for clients in the communications and technology industries. When she’s not working Marissa enjoys playing tennis. Marissa earned her undergraduate degree from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, holding a Bachelor of Science with a double major in Business (Accounting) and Journalism (Advertising).

About the host

Jonmichael Moy

Senior Director

Toronto Chapter Head for Products That Count I am a digital product executive with over 20 years of experience in retail, digital media, and e-commerce. I’ve held both strategic and operational leadership roles at Canadian Tire, Torstar, Postmedia, eBay, and PayPal as well as start-ups. I am a servant leader who is humble, self aware, always learning, and excels at collaborating with stakeholders. I am a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, a father of two, pancreatic cancer awareness advocate, moved to Canada 13 years ago, and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. I currently sit on the Product Management Program Advisory Council for York University which offers Canada’s first post-secondary product management program.