Debbie James

Debbie is an experienced product leader and consultant with 20+ years delivering innovation, transformation and growth across a number of sectors including Media & Publishing, Healthtech and Martech.

From launching Channel 5’s My5 streaming platform to spearheading Time Out Media’s digital transformation, she brings a blend of creativity, commercial acumen and technical depth.

Product Consultant/Mentor

Product management sits at the intersection of art and science, and the opportunity to lead teams with vision and purpose is what makes it so exciting and engaging. Delivering both business and user value is a huge motivator for me.

Experience

Debbie has a passion for identifying business and user needs and creating strategies and roadmaps which deliver tangible outcomes and turn vision into impact. She has helped companies on their transformation journey to become more product centric and has built and scaled teams and ways of working to deliver outstanding results and improve employee engagement.

20+ years of digital product management experience, over 10 years in leadership roles
15 years in Media and Publishing and 2 years in B2B SaaS leadership
Triple-digit growth across a number of products and companies

Specialisms

Consulting

Product mentor and coach
- Customer journey mapping
- Customer profiling
- Go-to-market product strategies
- OKR's and metrics
- Prioritisation strategies
- Product and digital transformation
- Product market fit
- Product marketing
- Product operating model design
- Product owner mentor/coach
- Product vision, strategy and roadmapping