Benjamin Reece, VP of Product at Vendr
Salt Lake City, UT · Remote · linkedin.com/in/benjaminreece · github.com/bnjreece · reece.is · b@reece.is
I led product at Vendr through its acquisition by Vertice in June 2026. I build AI products end to end: the data platform, the eval system, the agent, and the internal tools that ship them. Former full-stack dev, still writing code.
EXPERIENCE
VENDR · ACQUIRED BY VERTICE, JUNE 2026 | VP OF PRODUCT
JAN 2024 — JUN 2026- Led product for Ruth, Vendr's autonomous AI negotiation agent. Trained on $15B+ in transaction data, 200K+ contracts, and 130K+ negotiations. Shipped the roadmap from human-led to copilot to autonomous across 250 customers and $25M+ in ARR, gated by evals on a golden dataset from 30+ expert negotiators; launched AI contract analysis, PriceGraph, OpenPrice API.
- Built our internal SDLC AI operating system, Radar, serving product ops, CSM, and support: model tiering (Sonnet for agent reasoning, Haiku for fast tool calls, frontier models for eval benchmarks), an MCP server with 14+ retrieval tools, and indexed-note institutional memory (the LLM Wiki pattern).
- Led the product org, 3 PMs and a 20+ person team across product ops and support, while staying hands-on: contributed PRs across the customer-facing agent codebase, data pipeline, and internal tooling.
- Led product through the Vertice acquisition alongside the founder and CTO; Ruth and PriceGraph were central to the deal.
VENDR | SENIOR TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER, PLATFORM · PROMOTED TO VP IN 10 MONTHS
MAR 2023 — DEC 2023- Platform product strategy from zero across 50+ engineers: cut MTTR 1.62hr → 1.1hr and raised DevCSAT 3.21 → 3.73.
RIVIAN | PRODUCT LEAD (CONTRACT)
DEC 2022 — MAR 2023- Led spec and discovery for internal employee-generated content platform, seeding Rivian's highest-performing pre-order campaign with founder RJ Scaringe: 34,000+ pre-orders in 30 days.
VERIZON | HEAD OF PRODUCT, STXTCH
FEB 2021 — DEC 2022- Led 12-person cross-functional team (UX, frontend, DevOps) building the Next.js / React / Node.js-powered Stxtch personal storytelling platform with custom API and admin dashboard. Launched with 10,000+ team-member profiles.
- Championed by Verizon CPO after presenting to C-suite; shepherded net-new SaaS stack through Fortune 500 legal, procurement, and security review; partnered with Verizon IT for global deployment.
- Flagship L&D program "Women of the World": 9.3 NPS across 1,700-user pilot.
DEAR WORLD | CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
NOV 2018 — FEB 2021- Promoted to CEO in final year. Led SaaS pivot from event-based model to scalable L&D product, growing ARR from $600K to $2.8M.
- Drove Global Fortune 100 L&D transformation as embedded product executive: launched virtual onboarding for 100,000+ employees annually. 86% reported deep connection to company values.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | HEAD OF PRODUCT & ENGINEERING, ASPIRE
JAN 2016 — NOV 2018- Led planning, design, engineering, and content for a $1.7M interactive mobile-first L&D platform. Launched to 200,000+ students with 54% increase in favorable post-test results from V1. Today: 150,000+ students across 800+ schools in 47 states.
- Managed HIPAA/COPPA/WCAG/GDPR compliance across 12+ hours of gamified experience; hired 80+ staff across engineering, design, and content; built custom PHP/Laravel CMS with MySQL backend and dashboard reporting.
DELTREE | FOUNDER & OPERATING PARTNER
2009 — 2018- Founded Deltree, a product and engineering shop embedded with Fortune 500 clients. Shipped custom-stack platforms and campaigns reaching 1B+ views and managed $10M+ in product development pipelines across engagements with Samsung, Microsoft, Salesforce, Rockefeller Foundation, BMW/Guggenheim. Full portfolio at deltree.com.
- Co-founded 2x VC-backed SaaS video platform startups (Kinio, Liveset; 20M+ users) on Rails and PHP with AWS. TechStars LaunchPad Ignition; TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Both failed, both formative.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS · COMPUTER SCIENCE