Experience
NAX Group, Lead Product Strategist
4/2023 - 12/2023
Directed product strategy for an ESG portfolio of 4 products, steered internal AI technology development, and headed a multidisciplinary strategy team
Launched 3 new product entrants by leading the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to launch, for a major European Insurer’s ESG Impact fund, ensuring portfolio breadth & impact framework metrics coverage
Secured $18M in funding through innovation proposals, pitches, & product development within the sales process
Executed a co-development pilot & MVP build to validate an early enterprise scope 3 supplier platform, integrating insights from 40+ suppliers into roadmaps & GTM strategy, mitigating low user engagement to ensure a successful launch
Focused engineering efforts & priorities by 80% by spearheading POC pilots of internal AI tools to meet company ORKs
Established 10+ strategic partnerships via thought leadership & collaborative exploration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), top NGOs, industry coalitions & data providers to unlock development of 3 portfolio products
Developed design strategy methodology & spun up a strategy team, coordinating consistent quality across 6 projects, staffing, junior career development, & org-wide understanding of how to leverage the new team during different sprints
JP Morgan Chase, VP Design Strategy Lead
5/2021 - 4/2023
Developed and activated digital product strategies across 5 product lines and internal process transformations within customer acquisitions and small business teams
Led a cross-functional team in re-designing core billing & fee back-end systems to drive modernization & an improved ecosystem experience resulting in a closed $11M annual dropped billing gap & 30% reduction in customer-facing employee time spent on fees
Crafted a product line vision & omni-channel experience strategy for the new Small Business vertical, serving 6M SMB clients, aligned to business-banking diversification objectives, increasing c-suite buy-in & banker staffed allocation by 20%
Deployed new cross-functional product org engagement models for business, tech, design, front-line & data to reduce risk & increase innovation across teams with an initial case study integrating 10 disconnected teams
Facilitated the alignment of 4 teams under one KPI-driven product strategy, creating a new cyclical acquisition vision, success metrics, & product roadmaps to increase the new design’s impact on adoption, share of wallet, & customer churn
Up-skilled 20 teams on strategic futures to enable self-driven learning, envision future-proofed products & strategy by shaping methodology & developing an engaging firm-wide community practice
Elovee, Contract Product Strategist
8/2020 - 1/2021
Contracted to validate product market fit of dementia care conversational AI startup
Implemented a bespoke quantitative & qualitative product validation framework, shortening feedback loops by 50%
Scaled service from 0 users to operationalized in 2 care homes & leveraged futurism to develop a covid response
BCG Digital Ventures, Senior Strategic Designer
4/2018 – 8/2020
End to end product strategy building fortune 500 backed startups (Promoted to Senior 2019)
Founded, collaboratively evolved, & launched 5 products in healthcare, IG, & consumer valued at $45M
Devised methodology for & up-sold new applied futures offering, expanding project options to meet client needs
Nile - Head of Product Strategy (AI epilepsy care platform empowering patients & providers)
Identified 3 key epilepsy AI use cases to shape Nile’s early platform through market & patient exploration
Formulated a data-driven product strategy that drove HCP outreach & secured $7M follow-on corporate funding
Fern Health - Head of Service Design (digital care programs for musculoskeletal pain)
Guided a multidisciplinary team through product development from 25 initial concepts to two sold $6M ventures
Orchestrated prototype pilot validating service & behavioral change of the digital program feature with 5 MVP users
Home Concierge - Head of Customer Experience (care for seniors living at home)
Validated MVP connected home IoT service with 3 pilot seniors, collecting data-driven feedback to refine & scope development, refining development roadmaps
Scaled users 500% from 5 pilot users to 30 converting to paid users
KAB Consulting, Service Designer, Innovation Facilitation
8/2015 – 4/2018
Innovation freelance project execution for future-visioning and process transformation with 5 clients
Procter & Gamble, Project Lead, Service Design: Future visioning home care project to identify strategic use cases & generate concepts that leverage emerging technology & data sources relevant within a 10 year horizon
Radley College, Designer in Residence: 6 month sprint to improve design methodology for a top 4 boarding school in England, up-skilling Design & Technology program students & staff on foresight & digital design best practices
Procter & Gamble, Researcher: Executed user & market research in the Asian market (Hong Kong) to identify strategic product opportunities to elevate feminine care products resulting in a new product brought to market in 18 months
General Motors, Service Design: Futurist concept & narrative development for emerging tech to drive internal alignment
Advising
Cleantech Open Northeast / NECEC, Startup Mentor
Guiding CleanTech Open entrepreneurs in product strategy, emphasizing user experience and customer-centered solution development for sustainable tech solutions.
Advising on the development, productization, and validation of solutions, ensuring alignment with market needs and sustainability goals, resulting in customer-centered builds and go-to-market strategies aimed at maximizing impact and adoption.
Providing expert guidance on product pitching, ensuring entrepreneurs effectively communicated their value propositions to potential investors and stakeholders.
Out in Tech, New York City Leadership Team
Event planning and community building for the NYC chapter of Out in Tech, a non-profit organization that connects the LGBTQ+ tech community with more than 50,000 members worldwide.
Coordinated 2-3 events quarterly, managing sponsor relationships and volunteer networks to foster connection and industry thought leadership
Education
Savannah College of Art and Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Industrial and Product Design