Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham has a diverse work experience spanning multiple companies and roles. Chris currently works at Podium as the Director of Strategic Partnerships. In this position, they lead a team responsible for sourcing, defining, and building integrations between Podium and customer tools. Prior to this, from 2021 to 2023, they served as the Manager Strategic Partnerships at Podium, where they built and managed programs for strategic and technology partnerships.

Before joining Podium, Chris worked at Sincro, an Ansira company, as the Director of Product Management (Partner Program) from 2019 to 2021. Here, they led product teams supporting Sincro Advertising Media and Platform Partnerships, overseeing project initiation to completion and managing technical partner integrations.

Chris also has experience in Senior Product Management and Software Product Management roles at CDK Global. At CDK Global, they led a team responsible for CDK Global's Connected Store, bringing the car buying experience to local franchise auto dealer websites. Chris also managed CDK Global's SEO & Social Media product lines, improving auto dealer website traffic and branding strategies. Additionally, they managed Cobalt's stand-alone SEO product, PowerSEO, and supported its launch from conception to delivery and support.

Earlier in their career, Chris worked at The Cobalt Group as a Lead SEO Specialist, providing quality assurance testing and customer service for SEO Specialists, and as an SEO Specialist, providing SEO services to automotive dealership websites. Chris began their career at Marchex as a Search Engine Marketing Specialist II, where they provided consulting and managed PPC campaigns for Yellowpages.com on the Marchex local advertising network.

Chris Cunningham received a BA degree in Media Communications from the University of Portland from 2001 to 2005. In 2012-2013, they obtained a Certification in Software Product Management from the University of Washington.