Kelly Schaefer — CEO
Hi, I'm Kelly. I'm a product leader & GM with deep AI and business experience. I've spent most of my career building 0 to 1 products and turning products into true businesses. I'm currently Director of Product at Google Labs, where I lead a portfolio of AI-powered products, including: - NotebookLM; see notebooklm.google - Jules AI coding agent; see jules.google - Stitch design generator; see stitch.withgoogle.com - AI-powered data analysis in Colab; see colab.research.google.com ...and several more products in development. My teams are building tools that rethink how people create, collaborate, and solve problems with AI. In my role at Google, I've played both a PM and GM role, directly managing product managers, engineers, and strategy & operations leaders. Previously, I was the P&L owner for Stripe's multi-billion dollar Payments business and led the Enterprise team. In addition to Enterprise, some of my teams included Fraud, Identity & Access Management, Data Migrations, and even our Tax Reporting product (not Stripe's tax reporting itself, whew!) Some of my other roles: - Head of Product for Google Workspace Growth: responsible for growth initiatives across the entire Workspace portfolio, including Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms and many more. - Design & Team Lead at IDEO - Management consultant at Bain - Director at a startup non-profit in South Africa still doing excellent work today: African Leadership Academy - Co-founder of two startups back in the day
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS product leader with extensive experience in AI and business management.
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
Experience: 18 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Ai Product Development
- Business Management
- Growth Strategy
- Business Design
- Entrepreneurship
- Leadership
Career Highlights
- Led AI product development at Google Labs.
- Managed multi-billion dollar payments business at Stripe.
- Co-founded startups and led nonprofit initiatives.
Work Experience
Meta
Senior Director of Product (1 mo)
Director of Product & Domain Lead, Google Labs (3 yrs 10 mos)
Head of Product for Growth, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) (1 yr 2 mos)
Product Lead, Google Lens Shopping & AR/VR (2 yrs 9 mos)
Stripe
Business Lead (GM) of Payments Business (1 yr 4 mos)
IDEO
Business Design Lead (3 yrs)
Easily
Co-founder (1 yr)
African Leadership Foundation
Director (2 yrs)
Bain & Company
Associate Consultant (3 yrs)
Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Harvard Business School
at University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at The Wharton School
