Hi, I'm Kyle 👋🏻 I'm a product leader based in Seattle. I spent four years at Cascade PBS building a multi-platform streaming product from scratch, and this year that work spun out into Local Public, an independent public benefit corporation where I'm now Director of Product. Along the way I finished my MBA at Seattle University while working full time. I'm interested in the intersection of technology, media, and accessibility, and I write about product management and career development.
Work Experience
Director of Product · Local Public
2026 – Present
I lead product and design for a white-label streaming platform that powers apps for 20+ PBS stations across mobile, connected TV, and web, plus the CMS and API stations use to run them. Since the spin-off I've built out our product team, including our first Product Manager, a product designer, and a partner success manager. I also led the largest redesign in the platform's history, designing 1,000+ screens across mobile, TV, and web myself with AI-assisted workflows in Figma. Along the way I've kept every station compliant with new state age-verification laws and helped stand up the new company's operations, from our CRM and website to a station help center.
Product Manager, Media and Innovation · Cascade PBS
2022 – 2026
Over four years I grew Cascade PBS's streaming app from a single station's product into a multi-tenant platform with 100+ station-branded apps on nine platforms. I led a team of about 20 across in-house engineering and two outside development partners through a full rebuild, then scaled to weekly releases and launched 12 stations in a single year. I owned app store releases for every station, built the onboarding and support process for new stations, and saw the work pay off: Cascade PBS's contributions through its apps grew 53%, and WETA+ converts free users to paid at about three times the rate of the national PBS app.
Project Manager → Product Manager, Immersive Experiences · 3 Enrollment Marketing
2021 – 2022
Launched three immersive product lines (3D virtual spaces, 360° media, virtual tours), delivering 20+ virtual environments for 10 higher-ed clients and generating 150+ leads for them.
Digital Innovation Intern → Junior Project Manager · F. Schumacher & Co.
2021
Led an AR/VR initiative for digital product sales and managed web-based product development across a remote cross-functional team.
UX Designer (Contract) · MUUD Ring
2020
Built a wellness startup's product roadmap and finished a stalled user research project in four weeks.
Education
Master of Business Administration · Seattle University, Albers School of Business
2023 – 2025
Certified Product Manager · Pragmatic Institute
2022
UX Bootcamp · Springboard
2020
BA, International Studies · University of Alaska Anchorage
2014 – 2018