Steve Konieczka

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DISC Type : ic

Juggling Side Hustles at Self-employed

Golden, Colorado, United States

Overview

Steve is a customer-centric Agile Product Development Leader with a history of executive roles, including Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director of Product Management. He has a track record of building and empowering high-performing teams to deliver on strategic goals. He holds a BA from Colorado State University.

He is described as an empathetic, positive, and empowering leader who enjoys inspiring and aligning teams. His personal strengths focus on developing others and fostering collaboration. He frequently expresses gratitude for working with incredible people and values a positive work environment.

Unique fact: In his current self-employed role, Steve describes his work as "Juggling Side Hustles".

Personality Overview

Assertive

Curious

Example Seeker

They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information.  They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Topics They Care About

Agile Methodologies
His entire career focus is on agile product development, implementing processes and tools that increased team velocity by 5x in a previous CTO role.
Team Empowerment
Consistently focuses on building autonomous, aligned, and empowered teams. His listed strengths include "Developer" and "Empathy, " underscoring his passion for helping people grow.
Strategic Partnerships
Showed significant excitement about a partnership with Lightview Capital, indicating he values leveraging investment and external resources to achieve a company's vision.

Media Appearances

Steve has no verified media appearances

Work History

9-2023
Juggling Side Hustles at Self-employed
7-2021 - 9-2023
Senior Director of Product Management at Ibotta, Inc.
12-2017 - 8-2020
Chief Technology Officer at Educational Measures
4-2015 - 5-2017
Director, Technical Product Management at Webroot
8-2014 - 3-2015
Chief Technology Officer at Wellhire

Education

BA from Colorado State University

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Exp : 34 Location : Golden, Colorado, United States Job Level : N/A Designation : Juggling Side Hustles at Self-employed
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Insights For Selling To Steve

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Share testimonials from known people and give multiple examples of product value
  • Build rapport, it will come handy to handle hard questions later
  • Invite them for a social do but don’t rely solely on the relationship

DONT's

  • Don’t be too objective but make sure to pad your storytelling with data points
  • Don’t brush off any concerns, take all questions seriously
  • Don’t rely excessively on your relationship with them to win the deal

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Steve is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important to them, relationships will have some weightage.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Steve

  • They are practical yet friendly, don’t expect a clear no very often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Steve move?

  • They like to analyze well and can take their time to reach any decisions.
  • Can Steve take some risk or not?

  • They evaluate their decisions systematically and are less likely to take risks.

You And Steve

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