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John R.

Experienced Product Leader experienced in translating business strategy into great products

I'm a veteran product leader with experience building great products and product teams across several industries at pioneering companies like Quartet in mental healthcare, Block Renovation in home renovations and Collective in digital advertising.

I've had a particular focus on launching new products from zero to one within existing companies, and especially those focused on using machine learning to solve complex problems for customers.

I live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, but escape the city often to take advantage of nature whenever I can, especially during ski season.

I'm currently helping early stage startups launch their first MVP, and find initial product-market-fit. I'm looking for additional fractional roles to help other business at any stage get started with taking a new product off the ground to deliver business results while getting the best value out of their development teams.

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Work

Implemented ChatGPT to scope out and price home renovations

Led a cross-functional team to prototype and implement an LLM (GPT-3.5) to capture a user's renovation intent and turn that into a detailed renovation plan, complete with detailed line items and pricing for labor. This allowed our business to expand rapidly into new types of renovations, while also meaningfully accelerating the process for our users.

Product Management

Built Dynamic Pricing Engine for Renovations

Led a team building upon an existing database of labor cost to create a pricing engine that dynamically priced out each renovation project taking into account factors like project complexity and size, geographic variations, permitting, gross profit, and conversion.

Product Management

Built an iPhone app to create a customizable digital twin to allow people to visualize renovations in their space

Led a small team to rapidly prototype and launch an iOS app to accurately scan a room (or whole home) and visualize a renovation in that real space. This allowed our users to do in minutes what used to take a professional consultation, tape measure and a professional designer a week to complete.

Product Management

Experience

Mar 2022 — Jun 2023
Block Renovation

Block Renovation

Group Product Manager

Reinventing the home renovation

  • Led a team to reinvent the process of planning a home renovation from design visualization, to scoping the project to making sure the right materials showed up on time
Jun 2021 — Mar 2022
Quartet Health

Quartet Health

Manager, Product Management

Mental health care, made easier

  • Helped build an extensive data platform and machine learning infrastructure
  • Launched new channels for direct to consumer engagement
  • Built a platform to help practices succeed in value based care arrangements from 0 to 1
Apr 2018 — Jul 2018
Zillow

Zillow

MBA Product Intern

  • Joined a team launching a new service for real estate agents across the country
  • Helped implement agile practices to a new team
Dec 2013 — Nov 2015
Collective

Collective

Senior Optimization Associate

Run your business-of-one on autopilot.

  • Launched B2B SaaS platform from to help digital advertisers succeed across channels

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