Bio

#OPENTOWORK — Full-time Head of Product at a seed to Series C startup; Director of Product at larger companies; fractional head of product for companies who need help now but maybe have more opex than capex. I'm exceptional at strategy and establishing high-performing product operations, but also love getting my hands dirty with ''IC'' work. Who I am: • A product management team leader and mentor with genuine empathy, committed to DEI when I hire and in how I lead • A former programmer with 25 years in tech and 16 using agile and scrum • A coach/player deeply experienced as an individual contributor too • A builder of machine learning-enabled products since 2016 • A creative thinker who is unafraid of the left-field idea • An expert at building relationships with key customers, from huge brands to SMBs What I can do for you: • Drive outcomes-over-output product management using data, logic, and passion • Establish and maintain healthy, service-oriented relationships with other departments • Hire and grow superb product managers who also practice service, data, logic, and passion • Support your sales and customer success teams, and influence key deals • Understand and manage the most complex products in difficult domains, including AI/ML • Develop and support strategies that excite and retain customers Key skills: • Roadmapping • Collaborative prioritization • Lean Startup and agile thinking • Global people management and hiring • Empirical user and market research (guerrilla testing, contextual inquiry, discrete choice, AHP methodologies) • Competitive analysis • Capable with HTML/JavaScript/CSS, e.g. high-fidelity mockups for experimentation • Competent at SQL (Postgres, MySQL) and analysis tools like Sisense and Google DataStudio • Modern “PdM stack”: OKRs, empathy and journey maps, Jira, Figma, Sketch, Appcues, Aha!, Slack, Keynote, Google suite, etc. • Technical writing (documentation) and sales/customer success collateral (slicks, decks)