Kurt Gessler
Staff Product Manager | AI, personalization and data
- Role
- Staff Product Manager at Taboola
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
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
Staff Product Manager
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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