Kevin Spence

Kevin Spence

Midlothian, VA · William & Mary

Product manager with 18+ years owning digital experiences at the intersection of marketing, data, and customer acquisition. AI practitioner who ships products, not just strategies. Currently building Foul Domain.

Experience

Senior Manager, Web Product & Growth

2021 – 2026

ChowNow

  • Owned the public-facing web experience as a product. Defined the vision, set the roadmap, and led cross-functional execution with engineering, design, and marketing to optimize the prospect-to-customer journey
  • Built and ran a structured experimentation program using VWO, doubling demo request conversion from ~5% to ~10% over 18 months through hypothesis-driven A/B testing
  • Leveraged behavioral data (session recordings, heatmaps, funnel drop-off analysis) to surface friction points, generate test hypotheses, and prioritize initiatives
  • Built full analytics infrastructure: GA4 to BigQuery pipeline with GTM instrumentation, enabling complete visibility into user behavior across the acquisition funnel
  • Managed a developer and designer, providing product direction and quality oversight on all web initiatives

Product Manager, Digital Financing Platform

2020

West Creek Financial

  • Owned product strategy and execution for consumer-facing onboarding and application flows, optimizing for conversion and approval rates within compliance and technical constraints
  • Defined success metrics across the acquisition funnel, used FullStory for behavioral analysis and LaunchDarkly for feature flagging
  • Partnered with engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to ship improvements balancing user experience with regulatory requirements

Senior Product Manager, Growth Platform

2018 – 2020

Snagajob

  • Led product strategy for the growth and experimentation platform supporting 10M+ monthly users. Owned the roadmap and drove cross-functional alignment across engineering and marketing
  • Built systems enabling rapid A/B testing across web and product surfaces, improving top-of-funnel acquisition and engagement at scale
  • Managed multiple developers and designers; communicated priorities clearly and kept teams focused on measurable outcomes

Digital Product & Growth Consultant

2012 – 2018

Independent

Defined and executed digital product and growth strategies for B2B and B2C clients. Designed acquisition funnels, optimized customer journeys, and ran CRO programs improving conversion and engagement across a multi-client portfolio.

Founder & Builder

Founder & Product Lead

Conceived, designed, and built a full-stack AI-powered data product independently, from audio analysis pipeline to scoring algorithm to multi-platform distribution. Identified an underserved need, built a dataset of 36,000+ analyzed tracks with 12,000+ hand-tagged jam start times across 50+ songs, and shipped integrations across Claude, ChatGPT, Smithery, and npm. Invited to present methodology at the Phish Studies Association.

12,000+

Jam starts tagged by ear

50+

Songs fully tagged

36,000+

Tracks analyzed

40 years

Of live recordings

Stack: Next.js 14 · Vercel · Neon Postgres · pgvector · Recharts · MCP SDK · OpenAI Actions · Python · Claude Code

Technical Skills

Analytics & Data: GA4, BigQuery, SQL, Adobe Analytics, GTM, FullStory, Heap, Amplitude, Crazy Egg, Tableau
Experimentation: VWO, Optimizely, LaunchDarkly
Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP
CMS / Web: Webflow, WordPress, Drupal, Contentful
AI / Build Tools: Claude Code, ChatGPT, AI workflow automation

Education

M.S. Marketing

William & Mary

2023

B.S. English

William & Mary

2006

What I'm looking for

Product Manager or Senior PM roles at companies where the PM is close to the data and close to the build. Especially interested in data products, AI-native tools, developer platforms, and music/audio technology. I work best when I can go deep on a problem, not when I'm spread across ten surface-level features.