Oct 2021 – Nov 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Summary:
• Led Alexa Shopping’s Generative AI strategy and product organization, delivering first-of-kind conversational commerce experiences and shaping SVP/CEO-level product direction across Amazon Devices and Amazon Stores.
• Cross-role narrative:
• Evolved from leading a portfolio of complex technical products to shaping enterprise-scale product strategy, aligning multi-VP organizations, and guiding initiatives with multi-hundred-person impact.
• Led a 17-person product and analytics team to launch Generative-AI-powered Alexa Shopping, driving double-digit-percent deeper adoption and lift in purchasing.
• Directed product strategy and alignment across two SVP organizations, steering initiatives with multi-hundred-person cross-functional impact.
• Delivered first-of-kind GenAI shopping experiences, including conversational shopping, natural language search, agentic purchasing, and next-generation household management.
• Raised engineering talent quality through talent reviews for 120+ engineers, serving on Principal and Senior Engineer promotion panels.
• Enabled faster, higher-confidence decisions in ambiguous GenAI spaces by teaching teams to build and iterate on incremental customer signal.

Feb 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Summary:
• Directed product, program, and analytics teams to scale automated content systems, unify cross-org data infrastructure, and initiate early LLM-based shopping innovation.
• Across-role narrative:
• Continued to grow multi-team orchestration, setting the stage for broader strategic ownership at the Senior Manager level.
• Led a 5-person cross-functional team to scale automated marketing content from 10% to 49% of XXB impressions, influencing the work of 30+ engineers.
• Built a unified dataset integrating 45+ data sources across 3 VP orgs, enabling a 1,000+ person org to measure content impact across 155+ channels and increasing data-driven decision-making by 6,500 bps.
• Prototyped early LLM-powered buying guides, accelerating Amazon’s generative AI experimentation.
• Scaled Women in Alexa Shopping into a 100+ member community with strong participation and sustained leadership visibility.

Jun 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Summary:
• Led engineering-aligned product strategy for Alexa Shopping’s automated marketing systems, establishing the foundational mechanisms and technical direction that later enabled Amazon’s Generative AI–powered shopping initiatives.
• Across-role narrative:
• Expanded from retail-focused product management into highly technical work shaping strategy for multi-team engineering groups, and influencing broader automation and AI directions later scaled at the Senior Manager level.
• Owned the end-to-end product strategy for automated marketing across Alexa Shopping, defining the technical roadmap and success criteria for a multi-team engineering organization.
• Directed a 25-engineer development pipeline, scaling automated content and recommendation systems from 0% to 10% of double-digit billion impressions and establishing the operational model for rapid future expansion.
• Identified and unlocked high-leverage opportunities by partnering with Marketing, Data Science, Design, and Engineering to drive real-time, contextual content creation.
• Shifted core systems from batch to real-time architectures, increasing content relevance and driving a 500% CTR lift on one of Amazon’s highest-traffic internal surfaces (Amazon Home Page).
• Founded and led the Women in Alexa Shopping community, advising the VP on leadership development and retention mechanisms that reduced engineering attrition.

Apr 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Summary:
• Led product and analytics team to improve forecasting accuracy, optimize procurement decisions, and launch high-impact business models in Amazon’s textbook rental business.
• Across-role narrative:
• Strengthened analytical and cross-functional leadership foundations, setting the stage for later roles driving larger-scale product strategy, automation, and generative AI initiatives.
• Managed a two-person product and analytics team, defining strategy and driving delivery across forecasting and procurement workflows.
• Launched a new revenue-sharing business model, providing financial scenario modeling for contract negotiations and managing business risk (including counterfeit detection and mitigation).
• Developed new methods for identifying textbook edition changes, preventing $X.XM in unnecessary procurement costs and improving inventory precision.

Apr 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs

• Summary:
• Owned textbook procurement strategy and operational optimization for a double-digit-million-dollar inventory business, improving pricing, financial outcomes, and automation across buying workflows.
• Across-role narrative:
• Built strong analytical, technical, and cross-functional foundations—spanning SQL, Python, pricing strategy, and VP-level alignment—that enabled progression into more complex product, data, and engineering leadership roles.
• Managed procurement strategy and buying models for double-digit millions in textbook inventory, including volume planning and willingness-to-pay mechanisms.
• Aligned VP-level leadership on financial strategy, then executed through 12+ complex SQL models (500+ lines of code) designed, simplified, and maintained to support business-critical decisions.
• Improved pricing strategy to save $X.XMM annually versus expected expenditures.
• Automated daily buying model adjustments in Python, saving 100+ human hours per year and eliminating a single point of failure—an approach that scaled as the team adopted Python for additional automation use cases (e.g., reverse logistics and return-truck tracking).

Oct 2014 – Apr 2015 · 6 mos

• Summary:
• Owned analytics, modeling, and product development for a 17-million-record residential mortgage database and its predictive modeling suite, driving improvements in model accuracy, validation, and product strategy.
• Across-role narrative:
• Developed early leadership in analytics, modeling rigor, and cross-functional alignment—capabilities that later scaled into broader product, technical, and organizational strategy roles.
• Owned analytics and product development for a 17M-record residential mortgage database and associated predictive models.
• Built and automated the validation process for a sub-prime prepayment model; led factor tests, shock tests, back-testing, and overall model performance evaluation.
• Assessed strategic direction of the model product line, recommending discontinuation of a three-year initiative and saving $X.XMM in projected costs through statistical and software architecture analysis.
• Facilitated strategic alignment across sales and partner organizations, clarifying value propositions, creating sales plans, and intervening when go-to-market approaches deviated from agreed priorities.
• Coordinated demos and drove backlog creation and tracking for due-diligence product development.

Mar 2014 – Oct 2014 · 7 mos

• Summary:
• Delivered foundational data infrastructure improvements for Groupon’s global deal platform, enabling faster geographic resolution, cleaner taxonomy integration, and more scalable system performance.
• Across-role narrative:
• Built early technical product skills across data, querying performance, and system integration—forming the groundwork for later large-scale product and technical ownership at Amazon.
• Scaled worldwide geographic data querying for Groupon by optimizing POSGRES SQL and strategic caching, enabling rapid and accurate resolution of queries from province to neighborhood.
• Owned global taxonomic data strategy and deal taxonomy integration, including leading system mergers, data migrations, and consistency improvements across international markets.

Mar 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr

• Aligned US and European country managers (VP-level) on a unified global approach to geographic data (sales territories, “city” definitions for deals) after acquisition of CityDeals.
• Implemented changes in US, UK, DE, IT, ES, and more.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Alongside 20 other executives, managed an 80,000-member global youth organization.
• Planned and facilitated 4+ weeks of training conferences for up to 600 participants from around the world. Delivered training despite inconsistent internet, electricity, etc. in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Mexico.
• Ideated and launched YouthSpeak survey to collect the “global youth voice,” garnering responses from 13,000 young people in 88 countries in its trial run, and earning Microsoft’s sponsorship the following year.

Jun 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr

• • Directed international youth leadership development and internship programs connecting US companies with international interns and placing US students in internships abroad, managing $1M budget and corporate partnerships (Husqvarna, PWC)

Jan 2009 – Dec 2009 · 11 mos · New Haven, Connecticut

• Leader of city management of AIESEC, a global non-profit dedicated to youth leadership.

Oct 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos · New Haven, Connecticut and Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Independent research project on the physics of rainfall in coastal Ecuador. Continuation of project in Ecuador in summer 2008.

May 2008 – Aug 2008 · 3 mos · Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Research fellow in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Advisor: M. Pilar Cornejo-Grunauer.
• Executed analysis of new climate indices related to the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the prediction of seasonal precipitation levels on the Ecuadorian coast.