Michael McAniff

Energizer
DISC Type : I

Senior Platform Product Manager - Consumer at Steller

Seattle, Washington, United States

Overview

Michael is a product manager at Steller with over five years of experience in the travel and leisure industry. He excels at guiding products from concept to launch using data-driven insights and has a background in backend development. He earned his bachelors degree from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

His unique career trajectory at Steller saw him advance from a back-end developer to a senior product manager, leading major product transformations.

Personality Overview

Enthusiastic

Imaginative

Relationship Oriented

They are friendly, approachable and love to make new connections.  They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships. They are really good at seeing what the long-term impacts of their decisions could be.

Topics They Care About

Travel Technology
He led the pivot of Steller into a focused travel platform and is passionate about connecting travelers with the right content.
User-Centric Design
He champions embedding user feedback into the product cycle through extensive user and value testing before development begins.
Data-Informed Strategy
His professional headline emphasizes scaling impact through product-first thinking and data-informed execution, driving significant user growth.

Media Appearances

Michael has no verified media appearances

Work History

2-2022
Senior Platform Product Manager - Consumer at Steller
7-2022
Senior Product Manager - Business Product Suite at Steller
2-2020 - 1-2022
Back End Developer at Steller
1-2019 - 7-2019
iOS Developer at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
9-2017 - 6-2018
Developer on a AWS RDS helper tool at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Education

2014 - 2018
Bachelor's degree from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

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Insights For Selling To Michael

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Use phrases like ‘people will love’, ‘massive impact’ etc.
  • Invite them for a lunch or a drink/coffee
  • Share some stories about how you you have helped people in similar positions succeed

DONT's

  • Avoid cutting into their flow
  • Don’t push them to make a decision too fast, let them get comfortable first
  • Don’t be excessively objective, be a storyteller

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Michael is

  • Relationship and rapport can play an important role, sometimes more than the other factors.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Michael

  • They will probably never say no directly, you have to make that decision yourself.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Michael move?

  • They are not the quickest decision makers, their friendly attitude could be misleading.
  • Can Michael take some risk or not?

  • They can take certain risks that are unlikely to have personal consequences.

You And Michael

Personality Compatibility


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