Kristi Coulter — Co-Founder

I'm the author of the acclaimed Amazon memoir EXIT INTERVIEW: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MY AMBITIOUS CAREER and the memoir-in-essays NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS, which was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. My work has also been published in New York Magazine, The Paris Review, Elle, Glamour, Vox, Quartz, and many other publications, and I write a recurring Amazon-focused column for the Big Technology Newsletter. During my twelve-year Amazon tenure, I held multiple product and editorial leadership roles, including: Group Product Manager for Books and Media; Global Head of Site Merchandising; leader of Amazon Crossing, Amazon Publishing's imprint for literature in translation and proprietary translation-management platform; West Coast Editorial Director for Amazon Publishing; Principal on Amazon's Leadership Development faculty; and Principal Writer for Amazon Go. As a Bar Raiser, I led nearly 1,000 hiring panels. As a Customer Experience Bar Raiser and Mechanisms Blackbelt, I worked with teams around the world to improve their internal processes and customer-facing products and features. Alongside my current career as a full-time writer, I teach others to write creatively via Hugo House and the Shipman Agency; I also offer private developmental editorial services and career consultations on a limited basis. I speak to groups of various sizes about career development, gender in the workplace, and topics specific to succeeding at Amazon. My books and I have been covered in the New York Times, the Seattle Times, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the Guardian, Seattle Magazine, the Stranger, and elsewhere. I frequently appear on tech- or career-centered podcasts, including Pivot, Kadima Careers, It Gets Late Early, Big Technology, and Shameless Leadership. My husband and I split our time between Minneapolis and Los Angeles (you can probably guess which part of the year we spend in which place). We have two golden retrievers. My shoe size is 9 and my sobriety date is June 24, 2013. I'm at work on a novel.

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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Experience: 17 yrs 3 mos