SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ProductPlan, the world’s leading roadmap software provider, today announced the hire of Mark Barbir as Senior Vice President of Engineering.
The hire is an extension of ProductPlan’s continuing commitment to their mission of reshaping how organizations plan, communicate, and collaborate on product strategy.
“At ProductPlan we're focused on building the best solution for communicating your product roadmap and enabling our customers around the world to build better products. Mark joining the leadership team at ProductPlan will help accelerate our long term growth as a company and our vision for the product,” says Greg Goodman, ProductPlan CEO and co-founder.
Barbir, a SaaS veteran of 20 years, brings a wealth of diverse experience to ProductPlan. Most recently, as SVP of engineering at MINDBODY (NASDAQ: MB), a SaaS business management tool for fitness and wellness businesses. There, he led a team of more than 200 engineers and played a pivotal role in the relaunch of the service’s web and mobile point of sale systems.
As SVP of Engineering at ProductPlan, Barbir will focus on taking the engineering department to the next level. While continuing to execute on the organization’s product roadmap, Barbir will be instrumental in growing the engineering team and enabling ProductPlan to continue innovating and maintaining its status as a leader in the product roadmapping space.
“We are thrilled to have Mark on our team. Not only does he bring experience leading engineering at a publicly-traded SaaS company, but also he brings a set of core values that fully align with ours," explains Goodman. “As we continue to grow, it is important that we keep those values in mind and live by them.”
“I am passionate about creating amazing products and leading the teams that build them. I believe roadmaps are essential to both of those things,” says Barbir. “Over the last 5 years, ProductPlan has done a tremendous job transforming the product roadmapping process, and I am excited to work with this amazing team and help drive engineering during this next chapter of growth.”
About ProductPlan
ProductPlan makes it easy for teams of all sizes to build and share beautiful product roadmaps. As the leading product roadmapping solution, ProductPlan is proud to serve product teams in more than 75 countries around the globe. Organizations like Microsoft, Panera Bread, and Spotify trust ProductPlan to help their product teams seamlessly plan, visualize, and share their product strategies.
With ProductPlan’s intuitive features, product managers spend less time building and manually updating roadmaps and more time shipping products. Since 2013, product teams have planned and communicated more than 2 million initiatives using ProductPlan.
For more information, please visit: www.productplan.com.
