Jared Kirschner

About Jared Kirschner

I’m a strategic product manager with over 10 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, from foundational research to launching human-centric products and services across 8+ industries. My superpowers are simplifying complexity, humble curiosity, and influencing culture change.Currently at HashiCorp ($5B remote-first tech company), I am a Lead PM for Consul. I uncover the human and technical needs of enterprise companies related to service networking, and translate them into strategy, vision, roadmaps, and offerings. I am conscientious about getting the details right through execution by engaging closely with cross-functional partners. Key impacts:→ Rolled out 9+ new capabilities for Consul and enhanced 12+ existing capabilities spanning Access Control, Dashboards, Onboarding, Reliability, and Traffic Management→ Launching a new service offering wanted by customers who total $1-10M Consul ARR; persuaded C-suite to direct adjacent products to evaluate offering a similar service→ Owning the product relationship with 4 strategic customers who total $1-10M Consul ARR, including Consul’s largest customer→ Redirected Consul’s overall product strategy by persuading leadership with research and analysis I led with a team of PMs, given greenlight to proceed on proposed alternativesPreviously at EPAM Continuum (innovation consultancy), I partnered with 25+ clients to define and achieve business outcomes through leading and contributing to cross-disciplinary project teams with a human-centered approach. Select impacts:→ Sold and led $1M project from concept to launch of a lab information platform that balanced a client’s interest in structured experimental data for AI/ML with independent researchers’ motivations to provide it→ Enabled 40+ projects to impress clients with the delivery of confidential, custom project knowledge bases by building an internal, Wordpress-based platform→ Led and advised 100+ interviews and hiring decisions for a mix of disciplines across global locationsKEY SKILLS→ Owning the strategy, vision, and product roadmap; socializing across the organization→ Cross-functional collaboration with partners across engineering, design, research, sales, customer success, education, support, marketing, legal, executives, and customers→ Deep technical experience that informs conversations about UX, risks, and trade-offs with engineering→ Leading qualitative and quantitative research: user research and stakeholder interviews, concept testing, workshops, surveys, data science, and design strategy

Experience

1. Lead Product Manager, Consul

   Hashicorp

   Jun 2021 — Present

   I uncover the human and technical needs of enterprise companies related to service networking, and translate them into strategy, vision, roadmaps, and offerings. I am conscientious about getting the details right through execution by engaging closely with cross-functional partners.Key impacts:→ Rolled out 9+ new capabilities for Consul and enhanced 12+ existing capabilities spanning access control, dashboards, onboarding, reliability, and traffic management→ Launching a new service offering wanted by customers who total $1-10M Consul ARR; persuaded C-suite to direct adjacent products to evaluate offering a similar service→ Owning the product relationship with 4 strategic customers who total $1-10M Consul ARR, including Consul’s largest customer→ Redirected Consul’s overall product strategy by persuading leadership with research and analysis I led with a team of PMs, given greenlight to proceed on proposed alternatives→ Mentoring 9 colleagues across product management, design, and engineering on UX research, strategy, design, and influence without authority→ Strengthened product documentation culture by launching Consul Docs Days; first event received 45+ contributions from 30+ contributors and inspired Docs Days in other products

Education

• Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

  Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Matlab
• Simulations
• User-Centered Design
• Modeling
• Fpga
• Sustainability
• Python
• Ni Labview
• Wireless Communications Systems
• Data Visualization
• Embedded Systems
• Control Systems Design
• Consulting
• Robotics
• Photoshop
• Project Management
• Systems Engineering
• Inkscape