Kurt Gessler

Staff Product Manager | AI, personalization and data

Role
Staff Product Manager at Taboola
Location
Chicago, IL, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Kurt Gessler

Award-winning leader who thrives managing cross-functional teams uniting product, audience and journalism. Lover of learning and teaching. Content personalization patent holder x 3. Unsatisfied. Named to MediaShift\'s MetricShift20 list of leaders in media metrics. INTJ.

Experience

  1. Staff Product Manager

    Taboola

    Aug 2025 — Present

    Responsible for global publisher tools and data platforms, generative AI and personalization. • Launched agentic open web experience based on large language models and real-time data to create high-quality conversations around publisher content. Increased loyalty, engagement and revenue. Drives more than questions daily on large news sites.

Education

  • Northern Illinois University

    B.S., Major: Journalism; Minor: English

    1991 — 1994

Skills

  • Editorial
  • Content Strategy
  • Social Media
  • Multimedia
  • Web Analytics
  • Integrated Marketing
  • New Media
  • Online Journalism
  • Publishing
  • Email Marketing
  • Web Content Management
  • Web Content Writing
  • Web Content
  • Publications
  • Ap Stylebook
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Storytelling
  • News Writing
  • Content Development
  • Ap Style
  • Content Management
  • Editing
  • Web Design
  • Journalism
  • Press Releases
  • Digital Media
  • Magazines
  • Blogging
  • Breaking News
  • Headline Writing
  • Video Production
  • Wordpress
  • SEO
  • Newspapers
  • Copy Editing
  • Web Editing
  • Cms

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