Benjamin Reece, AI Product Leader
Salt Lake City, UT · Remote · linkedin.com/in/benjaminreece · github.com/bnjreece · reece.is · b@reece.is
I build AI products end to end: data platforms, evaluation systems, agents, and the internal tools that ship them. Led product at Vendr through its 2026 acquisition by Vertice; Ruth reached $25M+ ARR. Former full-stack developer, 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. Powered by $15B+ in transaction data and millions of legal documents. 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 Radar, Vendr's AI-native product operating system across all 250 customers: transformed 3,600 calls plus Slack, Linear, GitHub, and code into 127K curated observations and 7,600 tracked needs, powering specs, dashboards, and workflow actions through an in-app agent, Slack bot, and shared MCP tools.
- Led product, support, and ops: 3 PMs and a 15+ person org rolled up to me, while shipping PRs to the 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 a 12-person team building Stxtch, Verizon's Next.js-powered storytelling platform with custom API and admin dashboard. Launched with 10,000+ team-member profiles.
- Championed by Verizon's CPO; shepherded a net-new SaaS stack through Fortune 500 legal, procurement, and security review to 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 & EMBEDDED PRODUCT LEAD
2009 — 2018- Founded and ran a profitable product and engineering practice for nine years, embedding with Fortune 500 companies and global institutions to deliver six custom platforms and $15M+ in client product. Full portfolio at deltree.com.
- Built Microstream (2016), a proprietary API-driven CMS used across Fortune 500 and global-brand client platforms and licensed to enterprise clients including MD Anderson; its workflow pattern later informed Radar at Vendr and Reframer (2026, my owned agentic rebuild). Also co-founded VC-backed Kinio and Liveset (20M+ registered users) and led campaigns reaching 1B+ views.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS · COMPUTER SCIENCE