Amanda Ugaste
About Amanda Ugaste
Amanda Ugaste is a Senior Product Manager at Asurion with extensive experience in product management and e-commerce.
Current Role at Asurion
Amanda Ugaste currently serves as a Senior Product Manager at Asurion. She commenced her role in 2022, bringing her extensive experience in product management to the company. In this capacity, she focuses on utilizing analytics tools to support data-driven business decisions and plays a pivotal role in shaping product strategy.
Previous Experience at Walgreens Health
Amanda Ugaste held the position of Senior Product Manager - Product Innovation at Walgreens Health from 2021 to 2022. During her tenure, she contributed to product innovation initiatives and helped advance the company's product offerings. Her role involved specialization in feature scalability, competitive analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Tenure at Medline Industries, Inc.
Amanda Ugaste spent a significant portion of her career at Medline Industries, Inc. She served as Senior Manager Ecommerce from 2016 to 2021 in Northfield, Illinois, and Manager, B2B Ecommerce from 2013 to 2016 in Mundelein, IL. Amanda first joined Medline Industries as a Product Manager from 2009 to 2013. Across these roles, she demonstrated expertise in user and usability research and analysis.
Early Career and Internships
Amanda's career began with internships at Uline and Walgreens. At Uline, she worked as a Marketing Intern in 2008 for 3 months. Later, she served as a Pharmacy Marketing Intern at Walgreens from 2006 to 2007. These experiences provided her with foundational skills in marketing and product management.
Educational Background
Amanda Ugaste earned her Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She studied there from 2005 to 2009, acquiring a robust foundation in business and marketing, which has been instrumental in her career in product management.
Expertise in Analytics and Project Management Tools
Amanda Ugaste is adept at leveraging a variety of PM/Agile tools to enhance business decisions. She utilizes JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Miro, Mural, Balsamiq, Session Cam, Adobe Analytics, Trello, Figma, FullStory, Google Analytics, Contentful, and Optimizely in her roles. Her expertise extends to both waterfall and agile frameworks for effective product management.