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With a technical full-stack IC background, I've honed product chops in both cash-strapped startups and scaled enterprise environments.I've led platforms and digital experiences for Rivian, Verizon, DC Comics, MD Anderson, and co-founded 2x VC-backed SaaS startups. A multi-industry focus on healthcare, L&D, and content helped me cultivate deep expertise in a data-driven strategy, "showing vs. telling," for stakeholder clarity and executing with a laser focus on business goals and user needs. Over the years, I've hired and managed dozens of team members across UX, engineering, QA, and content. I am fortunate that my work has been featured in Businessweek, Buzzfeed, Vice, The Independent, The Guardian, and more.In 2018, I relocated to Salt Lake City from New Orleans (yes, it's the opposite!). Beyond documentary content, my hobbies include running, biking, skiing, and general mountain hopping with my wife and two children in the Cottonwood canyons. Experience Highlights:- For Verizon, led the Stxtch SaaS platform build, with 10,000+ user stories with an NPS score of 9.3 on the pilot L&D group "Women of the World."- At a Global Fortune 500, defined the strategy and launched a new digital experience for onboarding 100,000+/yearly employees. 86% of employees agreed that the experience deeply connected them to their Core Values. - Led MD Anderson's Aspire platform, launching to over a million global users, with a mobile-responsive user, admin, and super-admin interfaces. The mobile-first COPPA/HIPPA/WCAG/508-compliant platform increased module completion by 186%. - Led DC Comic's WeCanBeHeroes.org campaign raising over $2 million in funding, and viewed by 10s of millions at the Super Bowl, GMA, & Ellen's Twitter feed.- At the Louisiana Public Health Institute, led the strategy, design, and development of digital technology & web platform teams for a $100-million grant pipeline. Increased the size of the delivery system by almost 50% in 2 years in terms of patients served post-Katrina. - Launched CrowdFundHealth.org, providing thousands of donors access to 218,000 patients in rural Nepal. Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, said of the platform, "I wish this could be the front page of the internet."- Created the Webby award-winning viral series & digital experiment, FiftyPeopleOneQuestion.com, The Atlantic said "(it is) a beautifully simple premise, even more beautifully executed, peeling away at the most authentic human sentiments about life."
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Vp Of Engineering, Ops And Chief Of StaffVendrSalt Lake City, Ut, Us -
Vp Of Engineering, Ops & Chief Of StaffVendr Jan 2024 - PresentBoston, Massachusetts, Us -
Senior Technical Product Manager, PlatformVendr Mar 2023 - Dec 2023Boston, Massachusetts, Us- Having the time of my life, growing incredible team from 8-12 and establishing engineering & operational fitness in first 8 months, grew 3-month trailing story completion average by over 2000%, from 11.5 to 244.5, - Established baseline & decreased DevCSAT score with Platform strategy, defining roadmap and moving beyond DevX firefighting and into an ownership vision empowering velocity and reducing cognitive load, reducing MTTR from established baseline of 1.62hrs to 1.1hrs. - Interviewed 1:1 1/3 of engineering staff (23 engineers) to define 277 user impact scores across 27 pain points, and initial engineer CSAT scores, translating to 6 milestones & 52 epics in Q2-Q4. - Established Platform Portal, an internal GPT/Slack-driven automated ticketing system attached to SLAs, serving 300+ tickets, and 200+ ProductBoard impact scores for our 50+ engineering team. -
Product Lead, Fractional Cpo, & FounderBnjmn Mar 2009 - Present- Web product & creative studio; As fractional CPO & embedded Product Lead, created products with 1 billion+ impressions; won, led, & built $15 million+ of product, with ~$4 million in 2021/22 - Led the vision, strategy, design, & engineering of six custom stack B2B & D2C content platforms leveraging GPT4, React.JS, Next.JS, Laravel, CodeIgniter, & Rails, on Linux/SQL stacks- Partnered with & managed products for 20+ Fortune 500 clients for over a decade, scaling on a project-by-project basis, managing hundreds of staff including engineers, designers, QA, & PMs- Co-founded 2x VC-backed SaaS video platform startups, won a Webby, garnered 20M+ users, & featured in Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Atlantic & more Full experience @ bnjmn.orgI have worked with: Nobel Peace Prize, DC Comics, Microsoft, Nike, Samsung, Verizon, Salesforce, Google, Converse, BMW/Guggenheim, Coca-Cola, Duracell, Purina, NBC, Sperry-Topsider, ESPN, New York City Ballet, Rockefeller Foundation, Skoll, NFL Networks, CARE. Vice, Complex, Drew Brees, G-EazySelect experience included on LinkedIn.Full portfolio & work experience bnjmn.org, and deltree.com -
Product & Operations LeadRivian Dec 2022 - Mar 2023Irvine, Ca, Us• Highest performing (over 30-day period, 34,000+) pre-order digital campaign ever at Rivian, in collaboration with internal marketing & manufacturing stakeholders, and featuring "first look customers" & founder RJ Scaringe• Developed strategy and approved initial scope for platform to collect, curate, & present user-generated content from 14,000 employees, internal teams, & customer communities, prioritizing key features & requirements• After MVP scope approved, UGC product definition, user stories, personas, & stack selection was handed off to internal team -
Head Of Product & Engineering, StxtchVerizon Feb 2021 - Dec 2022Basking Ridge, Nj, Us- Led the cross-functional team of 12, UX, frontend, and dev-ops with agile sprints for the Reach/Next.JS-powered platform Stxtch for Verizon, launching with 10,000+ team member profiles- Created product strategy deck, presented to Verizon CPO, collaborated & launched the platform + backend API/Dashboard for Verizon global, establishing user personas & establishing data-driven KPIs- Led legal & information privacy compliance with Verizon for their flagship Learning & Development program, “Women of the World,” with a 9.3 NPS score across 1,700 users in the pilot program -
Director Of ProductGlobal Fortune 500 (Undisclosed) Nov 2018 - Feb 2021- Defined the strategy & launched a new virtual experience for onboarding 100,000+/yearly employees. 86% of employees agreed the experience deeply connected them to the company.- Managed all aspects of the team’s product vision, strategy, development, & execution with a team of 8 and dozens of contractors leveraging Jira/Asana to set & meet sprint requirements
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Head Of Product & Engineering, AspireMd Anderson Cancer Center 2016 - 2018Houston, Tx, Us- Led planning, development, design, & content production of a $1.7M interactive mobile-first L&D platform launching to 200,000+ students w/ a 54% increase in favorable post-test results from V1 - Managed the platform’s HIPPA/COPPA/WCAG/GDRP compliance & led UX/dev sprints across gamified 12+ hours of experience. Included full-back custom CMS backend & dashboard reporting- Spearheaded project management of all technical & content departments, hiring 80+ staff for the innovative education product that included extensive process, training, compliance documentation -
Product Lead & Executive ProducerNobel Peace Prize 2016 - 2016- Produced and led development, UX, and strategy for digital campaign in partnership with Nobel Organization, launched on stage at 2016 Nobel Peace Forum - Hired and managed an international team that traveled to India with Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi to spotlight global child labor crisis - Collaborated with Nobel Organization to maintain consistent brand narrative across social media and marketing materials -
Product Lead & Executive ProducerUnicef 2015 - 2015New York, New York, Us- In 2016, my team and I partnered with Dear World to travel to the world's newest country & war torn area of South Sudan. - Being ranked one of the world's most dangerous areas for Journalists we spent much of the 3 months of pre-production planning for safety and risk management. - The films and photos premiered at the United Nations and were covered by publications around the world. Creative Direction Project Management Film & Video production Interactive Social Campaigns Multi-platform Marketing & Content Creation -
Director & ProducerVerizon 2014 - 2014Basking Ridge, Nj, Us- As Verizon approached the milestone of 5 million Facebook fans, they wanted to mark the achievement in a way that didn't seem braggy or chest-beating. - We asked 50 random people what friendship means to them. And what they said blew us away." ~ james wood executive creative director @ mcgarrybowen. - Co-directed & produced this product marketing piece in collaboration with Nathan Heliene & Crush + Lovely in NYC. I managed the video village with client, cutting the piece live to assure we were getting the creative direction and messaging that the team wanted to capture. -
Product Lead & Executive ProducerCare 2013 - 2013Atlanta, Ga, Us- Produced, directed, and designed multi-platform campaign highlighting Syrian refugee crisis on the border of Syria, featuring 400,000 Syrian refugees - Featured in The Independent, HuffPost, Buzzfeed, Upworthy, and The Guardian -
Product Lead & DirectorDc Comics 2012 - 2012Burbank, California, UsApproached by Warner Brothers & their CSR agency, Fenton to produce & direct the web / digital campaign and centerpiece spots for :15, :30, :90, & 1:20 for web, theatrical, Blu-Ray/DVD and promotional release. The 2:00 spot premiered at the 2012 Super Bowl and can still be viewed in hundreds of thousands of Warner Brothers Blu-Ray/DVDs as an opening promotional film. -
Product Lead & DirectorSalesforce 2011 - 2011San Francisco, California, UsLed product, produced, and directed campaign for Salesforce. Filmed at Dreamforce London & NYC. Directly worked under and in collaboration with Bruce Campbell, Chief Creative Officer. -
Product Lead & DirectorCoca-Cola Europacific Partners 2011 - 2011Uxbridge, West London, GbIn partnership with Coca-Cola, I lead product, directed and produced this campaign for the launch of LivePositively.com. Created in collaboration with the head of European marketing for Coke. -
Sr. DeveloperLouisiana Public Health Institute Aug 2005 - Mar 2009New Orleans, La, Us- Full-stack PHP developer transitioned to product manager, leading end-to-end strategy, design, and development of digital technology & web programs for a $100-million grant pipeline- With a team of 4 engineers, 2 designers, and 1 APM, increased the size of the health delivery system (patients) by almost 50% in 2 years post-Katrina, afterward left position to co-found product studio
Benjamin Reece Education Details
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University Of New OrleansComputer Science
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Benjamin Reece attended University Of New Orleans.
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