CH

Product Leader

Chad Holdridge

I lead at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success — turning complex business problems into shipped solutions through cross-functional leadership and hands-on technical depth. Analytics platforms, AI orchestration systems, and a B2B SaaS built from scratch. I don't just write the roadmap. I build the proof of concept, align the team, and explain the value in terms customers care about.

25yroperations & product leadership
$2M+annual recoverable revenue identified
6typed AI agents across 3 live projects
0→1SaaS built from idea to production

Featured work

All projects →

See it in action

A walkthrough of the Agent Governance Console — the central nervous system monitoring 6 AI agents across 3 projects.

7 pages: Overview, Audit Trail, Health, Governance, Intelligence, Planning, HooksView project →

How I work

Discover

Surface what customers need before they can articulate it. 3 years in customer success and solutions engineering, running field research, stakeholder interviews, and time-and-motion studies to find the problem behind the problem.

Architect

Design solutions balancing user needs, technical reality, and business goals. 68 documentation files covering KPIs, formulas, and business logic — because ‘make it better’ isn’t a spec.

Align

Build consensus across engineering, design, and leadership to ship with confidence. ROI models, executive decks, and value narratives that drove adoption and shaped product roadmaps.

Lead

Direct cross-functional teams from concept through delivery, setting quality standards that compound. 25 years of operations leadership applied to product development.

What I bring to product

Product Discovery

Conducted time & motion field studies across pilot stores, then built the automation that eliminated manual reporting entirely

Data-Driven Decisions

Built lost sales methodology using Gruen & Corsten benchmarks, identified $2M+ annually across pilots

Customer Discovery

3 years in CS and solutions engineering — learned to identify what customers need when they can't articulate it, then translate into actionable specs

Stakeholder Communication

Aligned engineering, operations, and customer teams across competing priorities — automated executive reporting with trend analysis and AI-generated insights

Technical Translation

Explain complex AI and data systems in non-technical terms to customers, executives, and cross-functional teams to drive adoption and shape roadmaps

Technical Depth

Built dashboards, ETL pipelines, desktop apps, and SaaS platforms from scratch

Requirements Definition

68 documentation files covering KPIs, formulas, business logic, and API specifications

Process Automation

16 n8n workflows, 3x daily ETL pipelines, self-learning knowledge capture system