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Harris B.

Ex-Airbnb product leader, supporting founders & early-stage teams

I'm a fractional product leader and coach, with over 10 years of experience at early-stage startups and large technology companies.

I've been working exclusively as a fractional product leader for the last 3 years, primarily partnering with founders and early-stage teams (Seed to Series B) as an interim head of product. In addition, I also work as a product coach with select clients.

Prior to my fractional work, I spent 5 years at Airbnb building products and leading cross-functional teams. I've also been an early employee of a handful of early-stage startups, where I led product and non-product functions, including growth, partnerships and business operations.

I live in Bozeman, MT with my partner, two kiddos and mini Aussie.

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If more detail is helpful, here are a few specific areas that I tend to focus on as part of my engagements:

  • Discovery, development, and launch of an end-to-end product or new biz opportunity
  • Developing and aligning team behind a product strategy, prioritization, and roadmap
  • Building out a product team and function, including hiring, managing, and developing talent across product, design and engineering
  • Coaching founders, product managers, and teams on product thinking and fundamentals
  • Implementing or refining product development processes, in partnership with engineering and design
  • Stakeholder management and expectation setting with non-Product stakeholders, including Sales, Operations, etc.
  • Analyzing and implementing product analytics and success metrics across a cross-functional product team

To add, I find the work to be most impactful (and meaningful) when I'm able to deeply embed within the teams and companies that I partner with.

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Work

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Experience

Sep 2023 — Present
kea.ai

kea.ai

Product Lead

  • Product lead for kea
Mar 2024 — Apr 2024
US Soccer

US Soccer

Product Lead

  • Led the build-out of the Product Operations function for U.S. Soccer
Nov 2022 — Jul 2023
Namecoach

Namecoach

Head of Product

  • Interim head of product for Namecoach
Sep 2022 — Feb 2024
FieldNav

FieldNav

Head of Product

  • Interim head of product for FieldNav
May 2022 — Dec 2022
iConnections

iConnections

Head of Product

  • Interim head of product for iConnections
Dec 2021 — May 2022
Holonic

Holonic

Product Coach

  • Product coaching for Holonic, coaching both product managers and engineering teams
May 2021 — Sep 2021
Zitti

Zitti

Head of Product

  • Interim head of product for Zitti
May 2021 — Jul 2021
Mahana

Mahana

Product Lead

  • Interim product lead for cross-functional product team at Mahana
Aug 2015 — Jun 2020
Airbnb

Airbnb

Product Manager

  • Led product vision, strategy, goal-setting, roadmap and product execution for the Cities team: a 60-person, cross functional product team that supports Airbnb hosts and Airbnb as a company in complying with regulatory obligations
  • Led product vision, strategy, goal-setting, roadmap and product execution for Address Quality team at Airbnb: a 10-person cross-functional product team that improves the accuracy of Airbnb listing addresses around the world
Jan 2013 — Aug 2015
Shake

Shake

Director of Growth

  • Led growth, partnership and business operations
Jan 2010 — May 2011
Piazza

Piazza

Growth

  • Led growth and user acquisition