Hi, I'm
Ben.

I'm a senior product leader with a decade of experience bringing new inventions to life.

My products have sold millions of units and earned rave reviews.

If you're inventing a new consumer product, let's talk about how I can help!

Category Expertise

consumer hardware · music and audio · productizing ML/AI · wearables

new tech application · smart home / IoT · mobile apps · sensory augmentation

Highlighted Projects

Reinventing Earbuds

Earbuds that aren't earbuds:
nothing blocking your ears, revolutionary comfort, spooky good sound

Spatial Audio Experience
World's Best Noise Cancelling
Portable Smart Speaker

Taking a magical experience you can't understand until you hear it — and
making it make sense

Launching the best noise cancelling
the world has ever seen, and telling shoppers the story of how we did it

Careful tradeoffs to make a bestselling product when other brands had failed to combine voice control + portability

I've led eight consumer hardware products from concept to launch including novel inventions, product line extensions, and many software features.

Hardware / Software / Org Design

Hardware

Software

Organization Design

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How I can help

Product management is all about deciding what to build and why — and then making it happen.

I can help take your vision from 0 to 1 through hourly, fractional, or full-time engagements like:

Early-stage product work

Design a "master plan" product strategy

Build a new product innovation process

Turn a technology
into a product

Hire the right team across product, eng, design, research

Generate, refine, and validate product concepts

Plot out an iterative path to product-market fit

Pinpoint your ideal customer profile with the right research

Prototyping and lean iteration with customers in the loop

Late-stage and launch

Make the call on
when and what to launch

Distill inventions into stories that hook customers

Make tough technical tradeoffs across disciplines

Avoid rookie hardware scale-up mistakes

Perfect your UX — every product's secret weapon

Build hardware development processes for speed and scale

Build frameworks to prioritize product and feature roadmaps

If this sounds like what you need, let's talk!

Polished demos for press and partners

Hourly

Fractional

Full-time

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Hourly / Fractional / Full-time

Credentials

Launched 8 groundbreaking earbuds and speakers, leading large product teams as a principal product manager at Bose

Developed and scaled 7 products as a multidisciplinary engineer at ThinkEco, an electronics start-up

MBA with Product and Strategy focus from Harvard Business School

Physics and Astrophysics at Harvard College, with product engineering coursework at MIT

Let's talk

I'm available for hourly consulting, fractional product leadership, or full-time roles

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