Rod Snare

About Rod Snare

A proven, data-driven product Leader with software engineering, project management, and solution design backgrounds in retail and SaaS environments. Passionate about building solutions that deliver business value and solve pain points with a bias towards action to ensure the right things get created at the right time. Continuously evaluates customer needs to define and refine product usability, quality, and efficiency.Currently, I lead product development for a nonprofit mental health organization (pro bono), designing AI and LLM-powered tools that improve access to self-help resources and deepen user engagement.At The Home Depot, I developed data frameworks and reports for actionable insights, led customer analysis to inform strategic planning, and optimized online processes to enhance experience and prioritize features.At Whole Foods/Amazon, I Led the analysis for replacing a $250MM cold-chain system, re-platforming a perishable inventory system, driving $10MM in annual sales gains, and improving in-stock management, reducing non-perishable stockouts from 2.9% to 1.3%.As a Product Manager at Eagle Eye Networks, I spearheaded an innovation lab project tasked with the ground-up analysis and complete design of a new video streaming service based on an existing API with a new web and mobile front-end. This included market and competitive analysis, functional and UX design, and wireframing. As Director at New York and Company, I Improved customer experience and annual sales by $22M by implementing an omnichannel selling solution between the Order Management System OMS and the Warehouse Management system. I also improved transactional efficiency and productive sales performance by successfully implementing a complete store systems software and hardware re-platforming (2300 terminals). I grew a competent team of developers, business analysts, QA, and helpdesk from 10 to 50, which I then trained and managed to meet increasing demands and operational successTop Skills:Product ManagementProject ManagementCommunication SkillsCross Team CollaborationProblem-SolvingArchitecture and DesignData Analytical Research Agile Methodology Solution OrientedProduct PlanningManagement ExperienceCustomer FocusedCollaboration and consensus buildingTeam BuildingProduct Lifecycle ManagementStrategy Documentation UX Design and WireframingSupply ChainLogisticsCold ChainProcurementAIAgentLLMChatBotUser Centric Design

Experience

1. Sr Manager Ai Operations

   Regal

   Nov 2025 — Present

Education

• The Ohio State University

  BA, Computer Science, Philosophy

Skills

• Retail
• Loss Prevention
• Pos
• Visual Merchandising
• Merchandising
• Store Operations
• Profit
• Team Building
• Budgets
• Crm
• Multi-Channel Retail
• Retail Sales
• Customer Service
• Management
• Project Planning
• Sales
• Apparel
• Merchandise Planning
• Fashion
• Inventory Control
• Trend Analysis
• Inventory Management
• Soa
• Integration
• Store Management
• Time Management
• Assortment
• Operations Management
• Leadership
• E-Commerce
• Wholesale
• P&L Management
• P&L
• Forecasting
• Styling
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Point of Sale (Pos) Systems
• Software Development
• Program Management
• Product Management