Benjamin Jehring

Background

About Benjamin Jehring

I am an entrepreneurial product leader who is passionate about finding customer problems worth solving, iterating solutions through testing, and shipping products that impact lives. I have 15 years experience developing high impact and cost-efficient software across the product lifecycle from discovery and strategic planning to product launch and optimization. I successfully identify trends and opportunities by synthesizing qualitative customer research with quantitative market research. I take a customer-centered approach during product discovery and validation to ground the product vision in truth, not vanity. A deep understanding of users informs my product vision and translates into the roadmaps, product requirements, and prioritized backlogs for products that succeed because they solve real user problems. I am unsentimental about my assumptions and relish the chance to test them as I lead UX design and agile / scrum development teams through the build-measure-learn cycle. I write clear user stories with crisp acceptance criteria and maintain JIRA backlogs to align with business priorities, capture value, deliver on milestones, and impact users’ lives. SKILL SUMMARY Cross Functional Leadership • Respected product leader who inspires UX design and Agile development teams with the product vision to maintain strategic focus and deliver against aggressive business goals amidst adversity. Data Driven Problem Solving • Lean Startup evangelist with a bias for simple solutions to complex problems that are quick to build and accelerate testing and learning. • Analytical thinker with a penchant for identifying key metrics that measure the impact of experiments. Communication • Clear and precise communicator who revels in simplifying complex, technical issues into non-technical explanations for laymen that convey what matters most. • Exceptional understanding of users and stakeholders to find and prioritize opportunities to capture business value.