Hi, I'm Ben!
Thank you for visiting my site! I am a product leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling 0-to-1 products across enterprise SaaS and emerging technologies. My career has been dedicated to transforming complex technical capabilities into market-ready solutions that drive meaningful business outcomes.
Product Leadership Experience
Workday
Director of Product Management
Leading enterprise cloud applications for Fortune 500 companies
Recent Leadership Roles
- • Resource Scheduling: Led ML recommendation systems for workforce optimization for the professional services market
- • Financial Reporting: Drove 45% efficiency improvements serving all Financial Management customers
- • Content Platform: Managed global teams across US, Ireland, and Germany for 1.5M+ daily document generation requests
- • Productivity Suite: Built 3 products from 0-to-1 during tenure
Leadership Impact
- • Led cross-functional organizations of 100+ members
- • Prepared strategic updates for C-suite as part of company-wide strategic initiatives
- • Drove go-to-market for new enterprise SKUs
- • Validated product-market fit with early adopter customers
Spex
VP of Product
Enterprise field inspection platform for P&C Insurance
- • Board-level product strategy and quarterly presentations
- • Partnered with Lyft to reduce inspection cycle times by 96%
Ibotta
Senior Product Manager
Leading mobile shopping app with millions of users
- • Owned mobile e-commerce generating $1.5M daily GMV
- • Reduced customer acquisition cost by 38%
- • Managed strategic partnerships (Button integration)
Galvanize
Director of Product
Technical bootcamp and coworking company
- • Launched Galvanize Talent achieving 30% of all job placements
- • Scaled from first technical hire to full product organization
Recent Projects
During my sabbatical, I set out to build AI products from concept to production to deepen my technical understanding of emerging AI capabilities and their product applications.
Citato
AI Newsletter Aggregator
Built an email integration platform that summarizes newsletters in a TikTok-style feed and used vector embeddings for personalized recommendations.
ChoresAI
AI Family Management
Leveraged OpenAI for chore verification and AI-driven age-appropriate task recommendations. Featured in Lenny's Newsletter.
Candor
AI-Powered 360 Feedback
Built comprehensive feedback platform with conversational AI agents for interactive feedback collection and used OpenAI for sentiment analysis.