Becks Wood

Product Director

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Pandora's podcast launch for 70M+ listeners.
Built a scalable A/B testing framework at Pandora.
Influenced diversity and inclusion strategies in product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Digital Media and Product Management expert with a focus on user engagement and analytics.

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AnalyticsBig DataProduct ManagementMonetizationStrategic PartnershipsData MiningDigital MediaWeb AnalyticsMarketingData AnalysisCompetitive AnalysisStrategic PlanningProduct MarketingCross-functional Team LeadershipAnalysis

About

I'm a seasoned product, data analytics and research insights senior leader with a passion and skillset for growing and developing collaborative, compassionate and successful teams. My strengths include board-level influence, empathetic leadership, data-driven decision making with a bias for action, complex problem solving with simplifications, effective cross-functional collaboration and communication. As a VP of Product, focused on content and ML/Algorithmic programming @ Pandora my team and I led major efforts in launching podcasts for 70M+ listeners, partnering with science to deliver the best personalized music recommendations in the world, building and scaling our homegrown A/B testing framework, and delivering data-and-user research insights that drove major product strategy and prioritization decisions. Prior to Pandora I was a top performing sell-side equity research associate covering a suite of retail companies. I've been on a self-imposed creative sabbatical. Experiential learnings here:: https://anothersidebw.squarespace.com/

Experience

Netflix

2 roles

Senior Product Director, Core Discovery

Promoted

Dec 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Leading the TV, mobile & web products; plus the core personalization layer so "Netflix Gets Me" 💥

Mobile & Web Product Director @ Netflix

Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr

Leading the mobile and web Netflix app experience

Envelop

Board Member

Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Livehivemedia

Board Member

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

At Live Hive Inc, our mission is to preserve and publish live music performances.

Livable city

Board Member & Treasure

Aug 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Google

2 roles

Product Director @ Google Search

Jul 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

PM Lead for key Consumer Verticals in Search including Sports, Recipes, People, Language and Media: TV/Movies, Books, Podcasts, Video Games, Music and more! Led team of 22 pms.
Also worked on the data platform to power Google's Media Recommendations for Google TV, Assistant, and Search.

Product Director @ Google Assistant

Jun 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Vsco®

Advisor

Mar 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Pandora

4 roles

Vice President, Product Management and Insights at Pandora

Promoted

Sep 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Led music and non-music content strategic expansion: executive sponsor and primary lead for the late 2018 Podcast Launch. Drove product development for core Pandora music recommender system. Ran org of ~65 product managers, product analysts, user researchers, content curators and music programmers.
Product area leadership included:
Content Strategy - Product expansion into new content types
Machine Programming - Algorithmic / ML programming roadmap to play the best next song and create the best long-term listening experiences for our listeners
Human Programming - Editorial and curatorial human music programming that complemented our algorithmic programming strategies
Data Analytics & Data Services, UX & Product Research
Key Wins:
Executive strategic sponsor and leader for Pandora's Podcast Launch - Major app redesign to accommodate spoken word podcast content. Led strategic direction, tagging, recommenders, delivery, and insights generation of hundreds of curated podcasts launched in the app. 100+ cross-funtional team working on the year-long project, drove incremental listeners & listening hours
Delivered compelling end-to-end product research & analytics for key listeners, ads & content product areas. Insights drove roadmap priorities, estimated impact of products, and post-launch product changes. 80% insights to action ratio
Drove analytics services roadmap to power insights @ scale. Launched key products across analytics services including A/B Framework, anomaly detection, and quality of service reporting. Measured by speed-to-testing, ease of testing and overall application health
Diversity and Inclusion: Influenced and advocated for hiring, retention and promotion practices that leveled the playing field for diverse employees in product development. Partnered with key stakeholders to flesh out 2019 Product Development D&I strategy that laddered up to our overall Pandora D&I