Understand
Start with customer and market needs. Map the system and make the problem clear enough to act on.
Senior product & growth operator
Senior product leadership that makes work move.
I help teams build useful products and work better together. My background is in engineering, consulting, and product leadership. I like understanding how things fit together and working with the team to fix what’s getting in the way.
18+ years building products, teams, and complex systems
Experience includes · Employers and clients RebrandlyPie InsuranceBitlyPAIRINOra InteractiveSearsBridgewaterBloombergGoldman SachsDeutsche BankCapital GroupThomson ReutersSaxo Bank
How I think and work
The values and inputs behind the work.
My Manager README makes the operating principles explicit. My Bookshelf shows many of the ideas that shaped them.
About Brandon
A builder who cares about things that actually work.
I have an engineering degree from Northwestern University and 18+ years in technology spanning consulting, product, design, research, and strategy.
My current work adds AI, data, and new ways of working to that foundation. The durable part is the same: understand the system, make a clear choice, build alongside the team, and be honest about what the evidence says next.
More about meHow I work
The minimum process needed to be effective.
Start
Starting is the best way to begin learning and make progress. Use judgment, but do not let endless debate become the work.
Own
Leadership comes from everywhere. Own the problems in your world and make it easier for other people to lead.
Improve
Give honest, timely feedback and continually fix small things. The compounding effect is how products, systems, and people grow.
How to work together
Start with what will help you move.
Find the real problem
A focused assessment when leadership knows something is wrong but the team does not yet agree on the cause or the next move.
Own the outcome
Time-bound leadership of an important initiative that needs one person to connect the problem, choices, teams, and delivery.
Lead through the messy middle
Embedded senior product and growth leadership while the organization builds capability, navigates change, or searches for a permanent leader.
“Finding someone who can translate business objectives into technical requirements is difficult. Finding someone who can also own the project, teams, and client relationship is rare.”Andre Sugai · CTO and Partner, Ora Interactive
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