United States

UX Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Generalist Product Management

Growth Product Management

Platform Product Management

Group Product Management

Branding

Project Management

UX Testing

UX Research

Data Analysis

Kim Kastner

Fractional Product Leader | Product Coach & Consultant

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Team player

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Accessibility

Information architecture

Market research

Mathematics

User research

Product roadmap

Optimizely

Tableau

Trello

UserTesting

Zapier

Adobe Photoshop

Asana

Canva

ChatGPT

Facebook Ads

Figma

GitHub

Glassdoor

Google Ads

Greenhouse

Hotjar

HTML

Mixpanel

Notion

Confluence

Google Analytics

SEMrush

Critical-thinking

Public Speaking

Analytical skills

Relationship management

Product analytics

Prototyping

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Product Gold provides fractional leadership, coaching, and training services forged from over two decades of strategic product management expertise. We serve ambitious product leaders, executives, and teams alike. Whether you're seeking to amplify your leadership capabilities, drive strategic initiatives, or unlock the collective potential of your product teams, we’re here to empower you to strike “product gold.” 

Our three-step process begins with discovery, where we delve deep into understanding your situation, aspirations, and challenges. From there, we define your ideal future state and craft a tailored development strategy, founded on three critical skill areas: hard skills, soft skills, and networking abilities. 

Finally, we deliver actionable strategies to turn your dreams into reality, adjusting as needed, promoting continuous growth and celebrating achievements along the way.

Leading the pre-licensed clinician business and product suite for this rapidly-expanding HealthTech platform, I built a product and design team focusing on executing product innovation and facilitated scaling of operations to encompass new initiatives. I led cross-functional teams across the finance, operations, digital, legal, marketing, editorial, and product departments.

Highlights:
► Led redesign of the TYH licensure application to deliver a superior user experience and ignite accelerated growth, with plans to broaden our reach into more states.
► Launched the 'Learning Pass' for group practices within SimplePractice Learning. This initiative surpassed our targeted sign-up rate by 30% shortly after its release, laying a solid foundation for sustained growth.
► Introduced an innovative enterprise subscription model for SPL, contributing to the doubling of revenue within a year.
► Collaborated closely with marketing to revise EHR system pricing & packaging, targeting group practices which were projected to drive revenue growth of at least 10% year-over-year.

Initially leading a startup-like division, I grew and managed a large $MM portfolio of Learning Applications across various higher education disciplines to enhance Pearson’s core product offerings. Ultimately, reported to the VP of Product Management, collaborating with teams across North America, UK, ANZ, APAC, and Nordic regions.

Directed the vision and development of a brand new SaaS-based learning management system, and grew team driving product innovations and user-centric features, such as real-time analytics, eReader, and lesson planning tools. Managed product lifecycle from concept through launch, incorporating advanced technologies (HTML5, CSS, AngularJS, MySQL, Java) and hosted on AWS.

Delivered large-scale digital projects for Time Warner Cable, MetLife, and DuPont, including complete redesign of MetLife's mobile site, and global content platform transformation for DuPont across 13 business units.

Directed all phases of the product development lifecycle from concept through launch for the Read 180 Interactive Teaching System and the Teacher Dashboard Lesson Planner, two web-based services providing valuable classroom materials for teachers.

Managed the creation and maintenance of websites, content management systems, and analytics sites for companies such as Barnes & Noble (SparkNotes), Nick Jr., and MTV. Responsibilities included client
management, creating budgets and project plans, frontend development, technical troubleshooting (frontend and backend), QA, and deployment.

Worked within newly formed math technology department on a wide variety of teacher and student technology products, such as the ExamView assessments and teacher-narrated student tutorials.

Valuable experience gained in a large, team-based work environment.
Responsibilities included creating project plans and budgets, managing vendors, proofing, writing, and answer checking K-12 math print and technology materials.

Taught Essential Math and Pre-Algebra to high school students.

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