I want to lead product strategy and ops in an open-minded culture that is innovative. I'm domain agnostic and ramp up quickly. I love to build product organizations and mentor. I'm a great partner in fundraising and business development.
Katie Guernsey
@katskies
I'm a creative product executive that will validate business ideas with minimal resources. Let's go!
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a trusted advisor to start up and small-midsize companies looking to scale their business with aims to determine a roadmap, build a product organization, find product market fit and funding, or solidify partnerships. As a highly technical and creative product leader with a decade+ of experience deploying apps and product features, I deliver strategic objectives and develop product leaders and teams.
• Team Management: product, design, customer service, user research, engineering
• Platforms: Web, Android, iOS, OTT (AppleTV, Chromecast, Roku, FireTV), SDKs, APIs
• Business Models: transactional, subscription, advertisement, B2C, B2B2C, B2B
• Industries: eCommerce, media, social, marketplaces, SaaS, influencer marketing, gaming, live streaming, VOD
• Specialties: value-chain feature prioritization, strategic roadmap planning, product-led growth, business development and analysis, requirements gathering, data strategy, competitive analysis, user research and testing, scope and risk assessment, business analytics, product marketing and positioning, UX writing, and project management
Experience
Founder, Fractional Product Leader
Kite Launch Consulting
Dec 2016 - Present (7 years 5 months)
I advise start up teams and founders to scale their global product teams, implementing cross-departmental transparency and building alignment and value through the product functions. Highly invested in the success of my clients' businesses, I learn deeply about each project's opportunities and challenges in order to support user proposition validation, usability, ground-up builds or iterations.
Interim Chief Product Officer
TREBEL
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022 (5 months)
I provided the leadership team with a global product strategy, built out international Product, Support and Design functions, and drove localization efforts. I advised the Revenue team on novel ad bundles, monetization tactics and partnership pitches.
Senior Director of Product Management
Super League Gaming
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022 (1 year 9 months)
Super League Gaming acquired Mobcrush in June 2021. I led Product, Design, and Support functions, where I balanced gamer-influencer content creation with brand sales opportunities. I was the product owner of our AI/ML content clipping initiative.
Head of Product
Songtradr
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020 (7 months)
I managed 12 people in Support, Product, Design, and Music Operations to run the music licensing marketplace, and to close deals for sales and partnerships. I galvanized these multiple functions toward a cohesive consumer strategy, integrated 3rd party AI solutions for metadata integrity, and built out new subscription models based on pricing research.
Senior Product Manager
Hallmark
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016 (1 year 4 months)
Drove new revenue channels and market opportunities across 3 lines of business to increase subscriptions on Feeln by 110%
Fractional Head of Product
STRV
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 8 months)
• Launched new consulting division, defined process and deliverables; evangelized the value of Product within organization
• Supported sales team and brought $400k in new business and provided $200k in product value
• Trained and mentored 5 product managers and 2 UX designers on best product, user research and user testing practices
Tech stack
Learn about the tools and technologies that Katie likes to use.
Segment
Tableau
drawio
Lucidchart
OmniGraffle
Google Docs
InVision
Google Drive
Android SDK
Google Analytics
Mixpanel
Adobe Analytics
Figma
Adobe XD
Sketch
Slack
Microsoft Teams
Zendesk
UserVoice
Jira
Google Maps
Amplitude
iOS
Android OS
Google Workspace
Microsoft Office 365
Confluence
Trello
Asana
Basecamp
ProductBoard
Firebase
Google Sheets
Microsoft Excel
monday.com
Lokalise
UserTesting
Miro
Google Meet
Firefox
Balsamiq
ProductPlan
Firebase Predictions
Optimizely
Firebase Crashlytics
Airtable
MURAL
Sailthru
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