Researcher, writer, art lover
I'm a research leader who came up through three countries, four industries, and one consistent question: what changes the decision?
What I do
I build research practices that move at product speed without losing rigor. That means three things in practice:
I design the research function as a system. Playbooks, governance, tooling, AI augmentation, hiring rubrics, partnership models with PM and Eng. The deliverable is a research org that produces decisions consistently, not a researcher who produces studies heroically.
I lead foundational, strategy-shaping research. The work that resets roadmaps. Ethnographic depth, journey-level synthesis, executive-grade storytelling. The kind of study that gets cited in board decks.
I bring AI into the research stack with judgment. Where it accelerates synthesis, I deploy it. Where it dilutes signal, I don't. I built a custom AI agent for research synthesis at ADP — production, not demo.
What I look for
I'm interested in roles where research is treated as a strategic function, not a validation service. I'm currently most curious about:
AI labs building research practices from scratch
Product-led companies scaling research as an operating capability
Principal/Staff IC tracks or research leadership where the work is half craft, half org design
Outside research
I write a weekly essay on research strategy and AI. I read philosophy of mind. I keep a list of art shows that changed how I think about attention. I believe the best researchers steal from disciplines that have nothing to do with software.