Summary
Ryan Dodds is a product leader with 11 years of experience scaling fintech and SaaS products, currently Senior Director of Product Management at Stax Payments where he leads onboarding, risk, web and mobile teams that helped triple company value. A former founder and first product hire at multiple startups (Sparkcentral, iMatchative) that were later acquired, he blends hands-on early-stage product building with GTM-focused execution in growth-stage environments. He’s delivered payments orchestration and underwriting tools that moved ARR and processing volume metrics, introduced OKRs across organizations, and coaches PMs to own outcomes. Beyond product, he teaches organizational behavior at Rollins, has consulted alongside Dan Olsen, and balances a data-driven, customer-focused approach with practical playbook experience from both startup and enterprise contexts.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA International Business, BA International Business at Rollins College
MBA Business Administration Management and Operations, MBA Business Administration Management and Operations at Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College