David Finnegan

Owned end-to-end product direction for a dental-tech SaaS startup from strategy through delivery. Drove the shift from feature-building to commercial validation and helped secure a signed pilot within six months.

Co-led a strategic reboot of a 20-person product consultancy, launching an AI-native delivery capability from the ground up. Owned product direction across B2B SaaS and industrial-tech client engagements and led commercial strategy and BD.

Embedded coach inside Scania’s innovation program to train intrapreneurs in innovation and business design. Facilitated hypothesis testing, customer discovery, business design, and AI-assisted workflows, and authored a playbook used as a teaching resource.

Founded a boutique product enablement consultancy delivering customer-facing engagements for enterprise clients. Owned P&L, pipeline, pricing, contracting, and delivery end-to-end, including GenAI training and an automation stack for lead generation and qualification.

Senior consultant at the design sprint agency, leading high-stakes engagements with enterprise leadership across Europe and America. Conducted Design Sprints and coached facilitators on methodology, session design, and stakeholder management at scale.

Embedded product strategist at a venture-building studio, delivering UX and strategy work across multiple engagements. Worked on consulting and service design projects, including authorization policy product work and service design for an interpreter app and booking platform.

UX Designer for a B2B SaaS panel-data platform serving global enterprise clients. Worked on post-acquisition integration and a GDPR compliance project during an EU-wide rollout.

UX Designer shipping Reed’s first AI product to production: a Facebook Messenger chatbot for in-channel job applications. Delivered using early Microsoft NLP at large scale (10M+ MAU).

UX Designer working on digital transformation for a major UK housing charity. Delivered UX work as part of transformation efforts.

Completed the Advanced Product Management program with Product Faculty.

Completed the AI Product Management program with Product Faculty, taught by a Product Lead at OpenAI.

Earned a Bachelor’s degree in Interactive Media Design at Northumbria University.

Completed the Full Stack Facilitator training with AJ&Smart and was certified in ECS (Emergent Collaboration System).