Ben Burns

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Product at Loop Earplugs @ Loop Earplugs
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Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, United States
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About Ben Burns

I'm a senior product leader at Loop Earplugs with 11 years of experience creating consumer electronics hardware and software, including the launch of 8 Bose flagship earbuds and speakers. My products have sold millions of units. Previously I was a startup hardware/software engineer and Harvard physics major + MBA. I specialize in inventions: physical products that are challenging to create and communicate, like Bose's first open earbuds, our first smart speakers, and the most powerful noise cancelling headphones in history. I'm known for being a great partner across dozens of disciplines, diving deep into the details of engineering and design and then surfacing to make the right tradeoffs for the customer and the business.Specialties: Making products customers rave about. Tough technical tradeoffs, tricky UX, PM hiring and mentorship, roadmap strategy, iterative design sprints, concept validation, and productizing AI/ML experiences.Education: physics at Harvard College; Harvard Business School; MIT product design coursework.Interests: science education, clever toys, drums, astronomy, travel, live music.

Ben Burns's Current Company Details
Loop Earplugs

Loop Earplugs

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Ben Burns Work Experience Details
  • Loop Earplugs
    Product
    Loop Earplugs Sep 2024 - Present
    Antwerp, Antwerp, Be
    Inventing something new
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  • Bose Corporation
    Product Lead, Earbuds (Principal Product Line Manager)
    Bose Corporation Feb 2022 - Mar 2024
    Framingham, Massachusetts, Us
    End-to-end, concept-to-launch product lead for all Earbuds. Launched the world's most powerful noise cancelling earbuds and our groundbreaking new invention, the Ultra Open Earbuds (Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024!). Owner of the product roadmap, developing concepts out to 2030.Proactive and thoughtful approach to the business:• Productizing ML features, embedding with Research engineers to invent new experiences and turn technological advances into true customer value• Initiating strategic projects (new sound profile, spatial audio UI, spatial audio 10-year strategy, earbuds innovation funnel)• Creating a new category with the Ultra Open Earbuds, directing fresh approaches to design, UI, marketing, user research, and financial expectations• Major software feature launches including spatial audio, CustomTune ear personalization, and auto-volume
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  • Bose Corporation
    Product Lead, Speakers (Product Line Manager)
    Bose Corporation Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
    Framingham, Massachusetts, Us
    Responsible for the Wireless Speakers business - all new Home Speakers and Portable Bluetooth Speakers. I also launched the world's first truly wireless earbuds that don't go in your ears: the Bose Sport Open Earbuds, which let you hear your music and the world around you at the same time.
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  • Bose Corporation
    Product Lead, Smart Speakers (Senior Product Manager)
    Bose Corporation Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
    Framingham, Massachusetts, Us
    Managed a portfolio of new speaker products and strategic programs for 2020 and beyond. Owner of the product vision and trade-offs across all aspects of product development, engineering, and launch.
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  • Bose Corporation
    Product Manager, Smart Speakers
    Bose Corporation Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
    Framingham, Massachusetts, Us
    Product Manager launching several wireless speaker products and strategic programs at Bose. Developed and launched our first smart speaker, the Bose Home Speaker 500 -- the best smart speaker for music, and one of the first large-scale implementations of Alexa and Google Assistant on a third-party product.
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  • Bose Corporation
    Product Manager, Headphones Strategy
    Bose Corporation Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
    Framingham, Massachusetts, Us
    Product strategy for the long-term future of wireless headphones and wearable devices at Bose.
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  • Intuit
    Product Manager Mba Intern
    Intuit Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
    Mountain View, California, Us
    In the summer of 2014 I was a Product Manager intern at Intuit, applying their famous customer-centric practices to develop interfaces for internal tools and prototype a new mobile-first Mint-alternative budgeting tool.
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  • Equalize Health (Formerly D-Rev Design)
    Intern - Africa Expansion Strategy
    Equalize Health (Formerly D-Rev Design) Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Volunteer internship exploring strategies for Africa expansion for D-Rev, a nonprofit designing affordable life-changing medical devices for people who live on less than a dollar per day.
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  • Thinkeco Inc.
    Senior Product Engineer
    Thinkeco Inc. 2011 - 2013
    New York, Ny, Us
    As a Senior Product Engineer I was responsible for launching six new products based on our electricity-saving power outlet technology. Primarily, I designed the assembly and testing processes and wrote the software necessary to manufacture our products at scale in the USA and China. This was a many-hats start-up role: I also managed supply chain relationships, supervised mobile app development, taught my assembly processes to factory workers, handled regulatory certification, and designed the interface for our first product with an LCD display and buttons.(See products at http://www.thinkecoinc.com/)
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  • Thinkeco Inc.
    Product Engineer
    Thinkeco Inc. 2010 - 2011
    New York, Ny, Us
    As ThinkEco’s first hardware team hire (employee #11 depending on how you count), I wrote the software allowing our microcontrollers to communicate wirelessly and over USB. Then I designed the electromechanical assembly fixtures and quality control processes required to produce thousands of units in time to launch our first two products. I also conducted electronics design experiments, caught a major production flaw, and installed prototypes in users' homes to identify design improvements.
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  • Harvard University
    Research Assistant
    Harvard University 2008 - 2010
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us
    Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory:Fabricating new instruments and experimenting with piezoelectric materials to improve the world's first robotic bee. http://micro.seas.harvard.edu/The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:Analyzed the radiation produced when a black hole consumes a nearby star in an X-ray binary.CERN in Geneva, Switzerland:Programming, control room operations, and electronics testing for the ATLAS detector on the Large Hadron Collider. http://atlas.ch/Harvard Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology:Programming in C to anticipate how evidence for a fifth dimension could be observed by the Large Hadron Collider. http://www.hepl.harvard.edu/Harvard Psychology Department:Original experiment with Prof. Steven Pinker exploring the mental processes which allow spontaneous analogy, enabling metaphor and empathy. http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/research/index.html
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Ben Burns Skills

Product Development Product Design Product Management Business Strategy Engineering Programming Testing Physics Creative Problem Solving Data Analysis Risk Management R&d C# Embedded C Research C++ C Strategy Entrepreneurship

Ben Burns Education Details

  • Harvard Business School
    Harvard Business School
    Master Of Business Administration (Mba)
  • Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Coursework In Mechanical Engineering.
  • Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Course 2.009 Product Engineering Capstone

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