Kara Muraki

Staff Product Manager
FemaleLive in United StatesNationality United States
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Work experience

  • Staff Product Manager

    oura
    2023.01-Current(3 years)
    (3 years 2 months)
  • Senior Product Marketing Manager

    Mozilla
    2022.11-2023.01(3 months)
    Teamed up with a former manager to conduct market research for Mozilla's consumer privacy and security team, providing strategic recommendations to marketing and product leadership.
  • Director of Consumer Product

    Kinsa
    2020.05-2022.04(2 years)
    3 years 4 months Launched and grew new consumer mobile apps (companion to our fleetof smart thermometers) to 1.75 million users earning 4.9 stars on iOS, 4.7 stars on Android, and a 52% must-have score. Launched Kinsa's B2B2C employer pilot program, WellTogether, facilitating a safe return to in-person work. Managed a team of two wonderful senior PMs.
  • Senior Product Manager

    Kinsa
    2019.01-2020.05(a year)
    (1 year 5 months) Managed the B2B2C school program product suite including launching a new school nurse portal with aggregated illness trends, launching a new internal program management tool, and enhancing mobile app features to help keep school families healthy. Successfully doubled the size of the program and helped decrease illness-based absenteeism by 27%.
  • Senior Product Manager

    Whisker Labs, Inc.
    2017.05-2018.04(a year)
    Whisker Labs developed a smart home sensor and app providing real-time home energy monitoring and appliance disaggregation. I was responsible for improving our consumer mobile app designed to help new users install their sensor, monitor real-time usage, and save energy as well as our B2B web application providing fleet-wide monitoring for HVAC service providers including remote fault detection.
  • Senior Program Manager / Product Manager

    Sungevity
    2015.07-2017.03(2 years)
    3 years 11 months (1 year 9 months) Led a 14-person agile development team responsible for launching our beta mobile app and improving our customer portal with a focus on increasing NPS & customer lifetime value. Discovered user insights that led to team integrating Utility API usage data w/real-time solar production data to provide clearer cost savings, and successfully increased NPS by 30%. Owned product roadmaps, led agile sprints, and discovered quantitative and qualitative insights through user behavior analysis, design sprints, user interviews and prototype tests. Excelled in fast-paced, high-growth, startup environment.
  • Senior Marketing Manager, Customer Journey and Referrals

    Sungevity
    2014.09-2015.07(a year)
    Responsible for referral growth strategy and lead acquisition. In addition to running referral marketing, I created a customer journey map adopted across organization, analyzed referral behavior throughout the user journey, uncovered key referral moments and barriers, and partnered cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Service, Software and Finance teams to successfully remove barriers and enhance referral peaks throughout customer experience.
  • Marketing Manager

    Sungevity
    2013.05-2014.09(a year)
    (1 year 5 months) Managed creative referral campaigns and brought a data-driven focus to rapidly growing marketing organization. Proactively took on responsibility for building out our Salesforce-based analytics infrastructure across the marketing org and created an ad-hoc analyst group to standardize and strengthen data- driven insights across the broader organization.
  • Engagement Strategist

    Alliance for Climate Education
    2012.01-2013.05(a year)
    (1 year 5 months) Specialized in driving behavior change and deepening user engagement across offline and online experiences including the development of the SMS- based Do One Thing program, school-based Action Team challenges, and student leadership trainings.
  • Program Manager / Marketing Manager

    Alliance for Climate Education
    2010.01-2012.01(2 years)
    (2 years 1 month) Led our digital marketing team and engagement strategy. Helped transition organization from spreadsheets to Salesforce, became a Salesforce Certified Administrator, and took a lead role in ongoing customization. Set up org-wide impact tracking, ran creative campaigns, data analysis, and identified key opportunities to deepen engagement.
  • Program Developer

    Alliance for Climate Education
    2008.06-2010.01(2 years)
    (1 year 8 months) Partnered with IPCC climate scientists to build an award-winning climate science education program from scratch and scaled program to 1 million students in 3 years. As the first full-time employee, I played a key role in helping grow the organization, shape the culture, and set up scalable systems and processes.

Educational experience

  • Middlebury College

    Economics, minor in Environmental Studies
  • University of Otago

    Local resource use
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