Nathan Broslawsky

I lead the Product, Engineering, Data, and IT functions at ClearOne Advantage, working across the business to shape our product vision, elevate our technology strategy, and modernize the platforms that support our debt relief customers and internal teams. My focus includes advancing our security and compliance capabilities, developing responsible and value-driven AI solutions, building strong cross-functional operating models, improving delivery efficiency and quality, and ensuring our systems, tools, and people scale with the needs of our business.

As a Fractional CPTO/CTO, consultant, and advisor, I help technology organizations transform how they work, build, and grow. Drawing on 20 years of tech leadership experience, I partner with companies to tackle their toughest challenges – whether that's building high-performing teams, streamlining product development, or navigating complex organizational changes. I help you find the highest leverage solutions at the intersection of people, process, and technology. To create sustainable solutions that actually stick, I work hands-on with teams to focus on what matters most: delivering real value to customers while building an environment where talented people can do their best work. Whether you need a fractional leader to embed with your team, a consultant to drive specific initiatives, or a strategic advisor to help chart the course ahead, I'll meet you where you are with practical, proven approaches that get results.

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Managed Product, Engineering, and Design to solve complex business problems focused on accelerating company growth and customer retention in a highly regulated environment via data-driven testing, optimization, and personalization. Drove the rebranding effort from Freedom Financial Network to Achieve, unifying three distinct product lines (Lendage, Freedom Plus, and Freedom Debt Relief) under a single brand. Grew partner integration revenue by over 32% through acquisition optimization and infrastructure improvements. Additionally, increased revenue for the personal lending business by 27% through optimizations in the direct-to-consumer experience. Built the mobile app team from the ground up. Defined the mobile technical strategy and brought Achieve’s first mobile apps to market, culminating in the recent successful launch of Freedom Debt Relief's mobile app and expanding the company's digital footprint. Founded Achieve’s AI Council to provide strategic governance and to help ensure responsible AI implementation while facilitating knowledge sharing between teams. This centralized team helped bring awareness to initiatives, maximize business impact, and ensure consistent risk management while promoting ethical development and cross-team collaboration. Served as an architect of people strategy for Technology organization to help create scalable solutions and processes for performance management, career development, hiring, and internal mobility resulting in historically low attrition, high engagement, and leadership development.

Drove the digital transformation initiative to allow consumers to enroll into Achieve’s products fully online, resulting in tens of millions of incremental marketing margin. In a period of rapid growth, modernized the marketing and lead acquisition architecture to achieve 99.99% uptime Introduced and implemented a strategy that converged the entire organization onto a single technology stack, resulting in improved developer efficiency, faster hiring, and an increased ability to move talent internally.

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, drove an organizational transformation to better align the engineering team to major strategic initiatives such as customer growth, operational cost containment, and the acquisition of Flickr. Introduced increasingly mature software development processes, incident management, root cause analyses, and leadership development initiatives. Oversaw the entire software development lifecycle from prioritization, scoping, and planning through development, testing, launch coordination, and analysis. Standardized agile development processes across the entire product development organization. Introduced career tracks and levels throughout the engineering organization and designed and implemented promotion and calibration processes Drove measurable operational improvement across engineering functions, including frontend and backend infrastructure, cloud operations, and data science and warehousing. Defined a multi-year technical strategy to support rapid execution and product iteration. Formed a team to build and maintain common services and infrastructure across multiple lines of business: SmugMug and Flickr.

Established the Program Management function to introduce foundational agile concepts and oversee annual- and quarterly-planning exercises, goal setting, and team execution. Introduced automated testing into the software development process by QA and Engineering consistently contributing white-box (unit and integration) testing and black-box (acceptance and systems) tests.

Led engineering team, focused on maintaining a customer-facing website and the operational tools that power the business. Oversaw the development of new product features and the building and maintenance of a modern technology stack. Recruited, developed, and managed key engineering personnel. Led the technology conversion of Auction.com from Python and Angular over to node.js and React.js which improved the pages speed by 160%. Ushered direct reports to a 30% YoY growth in market share and a 12%+ YoY revenue growth through several initiatives, despite operating in a shrinking market. Drove the redesign of our foreclosure property pages which yielded approximately a 30% lift in property saves, downloads, and visits per user. Supported 10th anniversary rebranding initiative with technology upgrades and web site performance improvements which yielded nearly a 20% increase in account signups.

» Tumblr Headed Tumblr's newly-established Ads and Monetization teams in the analyzing and visualization of business metrics and goals, and provided tools to enable sales team to pitch and traffic campaigns. Opened new sources of revenue through ad network integrations. Provided product management, strategic research, and architecture planning for new development, and hiring, coaching and development support as the organization expanded. Transitioned 16 team members from Yahoo into a new team at Tumblr where the personnel could provide the most value. Merged two distinct cultures into a cohesive well-functioning team and the positive experience led Tumblr to invest further with the addition of an ads team. Cross-trained the team to build software on the web and on a mobile platform to support usage numbers shifting from predominantly web to more than 50% mobile. Rather than incurring the costs of a separate mobile organization building the native apps, I rapidly ramped up my direct reports to take on web and mobile projects simultaneously across all platforms, increasing speed-to-market for new features. » Yahoo Managed the Yahoo Contributor Network engineering team in the implementation of user generated content initiatives. Focused on creating the best experiences for third-party publishers which encouraged them to do increased business. Directed construction of a new portal for content monetization in the ad marketplace which surfaced the first realizations of Yahoo's real-time analytics pipeline to display organic and paid data to our users. Rapidly built and developed a top functioning team from the ground up, to support publisher products and content monetization initiatives, after relocating from Denver to California.

Led a team of capable professionals responsible for multiple clients and multiple projects simultaneously. Interfaced with clients, collaborated with internal and external teams, and guided direct reports to the adaption of various project methodologies. Architected and engineered web applications for high-profile financial institutions. Implemented and consulted on development of the in-house stock, exchange traded fund, and mutual funds portfolio management system. Personalized web applications corresponding to its geographical influence. Included graphs and charts for news, research, and portfolio applications specific to locales including the US, UK, India, Japan, and China. Developed a training curriculum, for prospective team members, as part of Wall Street's on Demand learning platform, "Developer University". The training included JavaScript fundamentals and an overview of the company's proprietary systems.

Utilized HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, SQL, and design techniques to develop web sites and manage business logic for clients. Consulted and assisted in technical support and created technical documents and proposals for management and clients.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude