Blair Latham Taylor

About Blair Latham Taylor

Product leader with 10+ years of experience building, optimizing, and scaling consumer-facing and B2B products, leading cross-functional agile teams, defining cross-team product strategies, and managing Product Managers. I am particularly experienced in 2-sided (B2B2C) marketplaces that serve two different groups of end-users (LivingSocial, WeddingWire - now part of The Knot WorldWide, and Niche). I also have experience with e-commerce, custom manufacturing, and retail (Framebridge). The majority of my career has been spent at high-growth stage companies, at which both our product strategy and processes have been evolving in real-time. I am currently the Director of Product at Niche.com, where I am the Product Management lead for Niche Direct Admissions: an innovative program that simplifies the college admissions process by enabling high school seniors to get accepted to participating colleges without formally applying. I manage a team of three Product Managers and oversee product strategy and operational health for three cross-platform agile teams. Niche Direct Admissions was recently recognized as one of TIME\'s best new inventions of 2024: https://time.com/70•••06/niche-direct-admissions/ I am passionate about building simple, elegant, and delightful software that solves meaningful problems for consumers and businesses and cultivating high-performing teams. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my husband and three young children, cooking, practicing yoga, and traveling (when I can manage to get away!).

Experience

1. Director of Product Management

   Niche

   Jul 2021 — Present

Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  2007 — 2011