Stephen Levin

Recycling your company’s electronics | Owner, Control Alt Recycle. Fmr Zapier COS, Head of Biz Ops

Greater Charlottesville Area

About

After years in software, I'm now running an Electronics recycling business in Charlottesville. ♻️ Excited to get down to business solving a tanglible problem locally in my community. I still love consulting and advising on SaaS Pricing, data, and ops topics especially for early and mid stage companies. Don't want all the knowledge I've accrued to go to waste! 😂

Experience

  • Owner at Control Alt Recycle
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    We recycle electronics for business and community members in Charlottesville, Virginia.

  • Owner, Analytics Consultant and Coach at Think Analytically
    Jun 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

    Currently, while employed elsewhere, I generally provide a few hours per month of data analytics, coaching, and analytics advisory services for SaaS businesses and Strategy and Analytics Leaders. Previously, while full time, I was helping a few companies accelerate their growth in various different phases of the acquisition funnel. Depending on the current company focus, it could be across any facet of acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, or referral. Example 1: Setup Analytics Infrastructure for several startups - Data Warehouse, ETL Tools, and KPI analytics dashboards for executive team Result: Team has greater insight into key metrics in their business! Now they're able to focus and improve key metrics. Example 2: Optimize referral program and landing pages for an upcoming crowdfunding campaign. Result: Crowdfunding campaign successfully raised $54,000 over 60 days. Example 3: Optimize a number of pages to encourage high-volume website traffic to submit a lead. Result: 100% increase in valid leads submitted. Example 4: Deep dive into product usage and retention events to help encourage upsell and reduce churn. Result: Strategy developed for upcoming months to encourage similar upsell paths. Example 5: Update automatic trial period lifecycle emails to feel more personal and less like a newsletter. Result: 75% increase in trial-to-paid conversion rate. HUGE win - worth tens of thousands of dollars in incremental revenue.

  • Head of Operations (Finance, People, Legal, Data) at Flashbots
    Apr 2024 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Ops at Flashbots is here to help ensure all of the incredible builders, researchers, and operators at Flashbots can do great work. Plus, you know, make sure we don't run out of money. Our primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent, and sustainable ecosystem for MEV, via a three-pronged approach: Illuminate: bringing transparency to MEV activity. Democratize: democratizing access to MEV revenue. Distribute: enabling sustainable distribution of MEV revenue.

  • Zapier (6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Exec Sponsor, Pricing and Packaging + Head of Business Operations, Sr. Director
      Apr 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

      The additional role I picked up during this time was as the Exec Sponsor of one of our Key Company Priorities. The Exec Sponsor was the Exec accountable for the crossfunctional initiative's success, spanning Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, and Ops. We rolled out some huge changes to our pricing and packaging in this time, as well as generated $10s of millions of incremental ARR.

    • Head of Business Operations, Director
      Feb 2020 - Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      We're a team of generalists and specialists that work wherever we can make the company more effective. We currently run company strategy and planning, strategic initiatives, pricing and packaging, and special projects. Some team highlights: - we incubated the sales team, scaling from 1 to 4 to 8, profitably: a key success influencing the decision to hire a CRO and build out sales for real. - we're leading the company's highest incremental ARR workstream in 2022 through Pricing and Packaging adjustments (projected to generate 3-5% full percentage points of incremental ARR this year) - stabilized and helped rebuild the recruiting function after major turnover - we developed and run the company Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) program, accountable for the company's most important strategic initiatives

    • Chief of Staff to the CEO
      Nov 2019 - Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Sample of responsibilities: - running the company-wide OKR/MBR process - ran the company's first 3 year strategy process - shepherding annual planning - organizing all-hands talks - Facilitating Executive team meetings and processes

  • Startup Mentor at 1776
    Nov 2015 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    1776 is a platform to reinvent the world by connecting the hottest startups with the resources they need to excel. From our Campus a few blocks from the White House, 1776 serves as a global hub for startups tackling major challenges in education, energy, health care, government, and other critical industries. 1776 startups receive mentorship, corporate connections, access to capital, media attention, and a pipeline of top talent—the raw materials critical for innovators to succeed.