Michael Shane
Senior Director, Head of Digital Strategy
Michael Shane is the Head of Digital Strategy at Postlight. He works across the firm’s portfolio, providing strategic oversight, storytelling, and consultation to ensure that clients and their Postlight teams find shared success.
Michael has over a decade of experience working on digital strategy for platforms and businesses. He has helped build a startup, led large corporate teams, and thrived working solo by combining technical fluency with creativity, empathy, and passion for designing great experiences that align with meaningful business opportunities.
He began his career in technology at Vox Media as Director of Operations for The Verge. Prior to joining Postlight, Michael was a Director of Product Strategy at Code and Theory, where he led engagements with clients in a variety of industries, from media and entertainment to financial services and retail. Before joining Code and Theory, Michael helped lead the digital transformation of Bloomberg Media as a Managing Editor and Global Head of Digital Innovation.
Michael’s first career was in classical music, an adventure during which he performed in concert halls around the globe as an extra clarinetist with the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra. Michael fell in love with technology while Mavis Beacon was still teaching typing. As a kid, he collected computer viruses on floppy disks and wrote apps in Perl. His first website was a Star Wars fan site, and his last one probably will be, too. Nowadays he spends his spare time studying and teaching traditional Japanese martial arts.
Recent Articles
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#338 Pragmatism and Panache: On Managing Priorities for Delivering Quality Products
Chris, Gina, and Michael on why the user should always be at the core of quality assurance
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How to Turn Anxiety Into Great Performances at Work
Lessons learned from a career spent onstage.
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#334 Building Trust and Providing Solutions: Postlight’s Senior Leadership Team on What Makes a Great Leader
What Postlight’s senior leadership team has learned about leading through their own mistak
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#321 Securing Buy-In and Budget: Twitter Space Live Event
How to get budget and executive support for big tech projects
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#306 Through the Looking Glass: With the Creators of Glass
Tom Watson and Stefan Borsje on growing their photography app without venture capital
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A New Leveling Framework for Digital Strategists
Writing the roadmap for Postlight’s newest team.
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How the Pandemic Shaped Our Work
What we’ve learned about taking care of our clients, our business, and each other.
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#284 Assume Positive Intent: With Postlight’s Michael Shane
Postlight’s Director of Digital Strategy Michael Shane on the keys to successful strategy