Fractional product & design leadership

Senior leadership, exactly when you need it.

I'm a product, design and innovation executive. Multidisciplinary by education and execution. I help teams turn design and AI into a real business advantage — leading the work when you need it, advising the hard calls, and getting your people fluent in what's next.

What I do

Three ways to work together.

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Fractional product & design leadership

I step in as your product and/or design lead — setting direction, building the team, and staying hands-on until the work ships. I've grown design functions from a handful of people into enterprise organizations, through mergers and platform rebuilds. Senior judgment in the room, not just another deck.

Scaling design orgs Operating models C-suite partnership M&A integration
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Consulting

Focused help on a hard problem — product strategy, finding product-market fit, the analytics that explain your users, or the AI roadmap that gets you ahead of the curve. I've done this for early startups and Fortune 500 CIOs alike.

Product strategy Product-market fit Analytics & insights Measurement-led design AI strategy
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Training

Workshops that level up your team — design thinking, AI design tooling, and agentic interface design. I build with these tools myself, every day, so it stays practical, not theoretical. The goal: leave you able to do this without me.

Design thinking AI design tooling Agentic UX design Team AI adoption
In their words

The people I've worked with, and for.

"KC has a unique cross-disciplinary view of the world that's both refreshing and effective. He understands UX like no one else, and brings out the best in every team he leads. There are some people you'd hire again, any time, any day. KC is one of them."
Paul Salzinger   ·  Principal, PCS Consulting

"One of the most visionary and impactful leaders I've worked with. Before AI became mainstream, he was already upskilling the team and championing AI-driven product ideas that pushed us to think differently about the future."

Nancy Rekhelman
UX Design & Research Lead, Genuine Parts Company

"When it comes to AI, he may be one of the few leaders who truly gets it — and can guide a team through the transformation needed to meaningfully embed and embrace it."

Tree Kraj
Product & UX Operations Lead, Genuine Parts Company

"He translated business and editorial goals into effective strategy. His focus on results was crucial to growth from zero to one million average monthly uniques in under eight months."

Ryan W. Kimball
Sr. Manager, Design Foundations, Motorola Mobility

"We reached out to KC to guide product strategy and design for our new iPhone app. He contributed brilliant ideas and built us a team of UI/UX superstars to get us to launch."

Joel Middendorf
Founder

"KC helped us understand our subscribers' behavior, present content in a more relevant way, and enhance our in-app experience."

Russell Greene
Founder

"If you're looking for a transformational leader within technology, look no further than KC. Working under him accelerated my abilities by at least three years."

Wesley Smith
Sr. UX Manager, CoverMyMeds

"Under his leadership, our team won an Emmy, a Royal Television Society Award, and countless internal successes. A mentor, a role model, and a top-notch product manager."

Stephen Dimmick
Software Engineer, Meta

"In over 25 years, reporting to dozens of different managers, KC was the clear winner. He's an amazing manager — I still miss his ideas and his keen observations."

Jorge Monteiro
VP of Technology, Giant
About KC
Design & Innovation Executive
Executive MBA — Brown & IE Business School
M.Sc. Human-Centered Design
B.Sc. Computer Science

I help organizations turn design and AI into a real business advantage.

I'm a design and innovation executive with engineering foundations and an MBA. Twice I've taken a young design function and built it into an enterprise capability. Most recently, I led a research-driven platform redesign that an A/B test attributed to $32.8M in incremental revenue in 2025. I care about work that moves the business, not just the portfolio.

Lately my focus is AI, and I build with it hands-on — I've shipped an experimental agentic UX tool and write publicly about where design and code are heading. Whether I'm leading a team, advising a founder, or running a workshop, the goal is the same: leave you sharper, faster, and ready for what's next.

Contact

Tell me what you're working on.

A sentence or two is plenty. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help, and if not, I can usually introduce you to someone who can.