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kristenguhde

Product Leader | Customer-Centric Strategy Meets Data-Driven Execution | AI Innovator

About Me

Product executive with 9+ years leading digital transformation initiatives across pet care, e-commerce, travel, and health & wellness sectors. Core expertise in product vision, user research, and data storytelling—translating insights into actionable strategies that drive growth. Track record includes organizational restructuring of product and engineering teams, legacy system migrations, product launches (marketing platforms, checkout optimization, subscription offerings), and cross-functional collaboration on ML/AI solutions. Skilled at building high-performing teams and delivering products that align business goals with exceptional user experiences. Open to fractional leadership, advisory, and full-time product roles.

Jurisdiction

United States

Experience

Seniority LevelExecutive
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Head of ProductForks Over Knives
2025 - 2025

Led organizational restructuring across product & engineering teams while migrating from legacy systems, launching new marketing landing through checkout pages, improving middleware and launching new cooking class products

Director of Product ManagementMars Petcare, Kinship Division
2022 - 2023

Led 0-1 launch of pet care marketplace MVP and SaaS platform that improved booking conversion and provider onboarding success rates pivoting key features including new healthcare focused metadata/taxonomy, semi-automated new supplier onboarding flow into the Kin app improving pet outcomes

Lead Product Manager - New Product ExperimentationAttentive Mobile
2021 - 2022

Led end-to-end product development from client interviews and pilot testing new products ultimately developing the product strategy for identity resolution for future new product development

Lead Product Manager - Growth & Discovery
2020 - 2021

Defined product vision and strategic plan for acquisition and discovery for Stitch Fix's ML backed direct-to-buy business through understanding customer pain points, design partnership on conceptual prototypes, and iterative feedback loops, delivering 30% increase in new customer acquisition and 20% improvement in engagement. Led large-scale go-to-market launch by orchestrating cross-functional team spanning product, marketing, design, buyers, and leadership through bi-weekly strategic meetings, dynamic project prioritization, and rapid decision-making to execute on aggressive timeline

Group Product Manager - Search, Personalization & TaxonomyTripAdvisor
2018 - 2020

Drove AI/ML transformation of TripAdvisor Experiences, establishing teams and infrastructure while partnering with data science to deploy models from logistic regression to neural networks and recommendation systems that generated millions in revenue

Senior Product Manager - Search, Recommendations, Mobile Web, ExperimentationOpenTable
2016 - 2018

Drove millions in revenue by optimizing search, mobile web and recommendations while leading strategic initiative for Google’s move to mobile first ranking achieving first page performance in key markets

Manager AB TestingWalmart
2012 - 2015

Shaped and executed AB testing strategy for marketing, site merchandising, and executive initiatives, defined product requirements for internal testing platform, and built organizational testing capabilities through cross-functional training

Education

Degree of Operations ResearchUniversity of Akron
1993 - 1996
Masters of MBA - FinanceCase Western Reserve University
1997 - 1998

Certification

Total Certifications2

Six Sigma Certification

General Electric

1999

Financial Management Program Graduate

General Electric

2000

Skills

Core skills0
Languages1

Languages

English