Derek Osgood
Founder & CEO at Ignition
Derek Osgood is a former marketing exec turned founder, building Ignition – the collaborative GTM platform helping Product and Marketing teams to get new products to market faster and more effectively.
Prior to founding Ignition, he was an early hire at Rippling where he stood up the Product Marketing function and helped scale the company to $20M in ARR. As a Product Marketing leader everywhere from startups to major brands like PlayStation, Derek has launched over 100 products and his products have generated over $1B in revenue. Now he’s building the platform he wished he had along the way.
- Marketing
- Entrepreneur
- Executive
- 📍San Francisco, CA
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Derek Osgood
Founder & CEO at Ignition
- Marketing
- Entrepreneur
- Executive
- 📍San Francisco, CA
Derek Osgood is a former marketing exec turned founder, building Ignition – the collaborative GTM platform helping Product and Marketing teams to get new products to market faster and more effectively.
Prior to founding Ignition, he was an early hire at Rippling where he stood up the Product Marketing function and helped scale the company to $20M in ARR. As a Product Marketing leader everywhere from startups to major brands like PlayStation, Derek has launched over 100 products and his products have generated over $1B in revenue. Now he’s building the platform he wished he had along the way.
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BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Derek Osgood
Founder & CEO at Ignition
- 📍San Francisco, CA
- Marketing
- Entrepreneur
- Executive
Derek Osgood is a former marketing exec turned founder, building Ignition – the collaborative GTM platform helping Product and Marketing teams to get new products to market faster and more effectively.
Prior to founding Ignition, he was an early hire at Rippling where he stood up the Product Marketing function and helped scale the company to $20M in ARR. As a Product Marketing leader everywhere from startups to major brands like PlayStation, Derek has launched over 100 products and his products have generated over $1B in revenue. Now he’s building the platform he wished he had along the way.
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As seen on
Timeline
Feb 2021 - Present
Ignition
Founder & CEO
Sep 2020 - Present
On Deck
On Deck Fellow
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
Rippling
Director of Product Marketing
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
BBVA
Director of Marketing & Growth, New Digital Business
Jun 2010 - Feb 2014
Playstation
Product Manager
Ask me
| What do you think most companies get wrong when launching products? |
| You've launched things everywhere ranging from big entertainment and CPG brands like PlayStation, to small tech startups -- how do launches differ between those? |
| How do you measure whether a launch is effective or not? |
| How has a career in Product Marketing prepared you to be a CEO? |
| What do you think the future of software looks like for Marketing and Product teams? |
