AI Product Leadership

Building AI products that deliver meaningful impact

I turn new AI capability into practical products, workflows, and use cases that teams use, trust, and scale.

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ChatGPT Enterprise scale

~1,000 users

~800 daily active users

Commerce impact

~$16M

annualized checkout upside

Systems simplified

16 -> 9

~2,000 hours saved annually

AI lift

~$2.7M

projected annual impact

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Portfolio structure

Organized around proof, not PM archetypes

The homepage is built to answer the most useful hiring questions quickly.

Enterprise AI adoption

Pilots, rollout systems, and guardrails that turn new capability into real usage.

Systems simplification

Commerce and operations work tied to measurable business outcomes, not just cleaner workflows.

AI-native execution

Live products and grounded concepts that make promising workflow ideas tangible fast.

Featured case studies

The case studies that make the strongest case fastest

Each one shows a different dimension of senior AI product leadership: enterprise adoption, platform thinking, and systems-level business impact.

Sanitized ChatGPT Enterprise hero visual showing the path from pilot to operating model with discovery, governance, pilot, scale, champions, OpenAI GTM partnership, and executive support.
Senior Product Manager, Contact Center & AI Strategy
The Guitar Center Company2024-2026

ChatGPT Enterprise from pilot to operating model

Annualized pilot impact

~$2.7M

Licensed users scaled

~150 -> ~1,000

Daily active users

~40 -> ~800

A recruiter-friendly story about taking AI from early promise into real production environments with measurable impact.

Product visual for the Sound Synthesist custom GPT experience for Guitar Center customers.
Senior Product Manager, AI Platform Strategy
Enterprise AI / Platform2024-2026

From AI experiments to platform foundations

ORIGIN POINT

Validated AI concept

CUSTOMER SIGNAL

87% would use again

STRATEGIC SHIFT

From one-off prototypes to repeatable AI systems

A strategy story about how an early customer-facing AI prototype and UX validation shaped my thinking around reusable systems, workflow-based adoption, and platform direction.

Checkout redesign header illustration showing delivery, order summary, and payment visuals.
Senior Product Manager, Commerce
The Guitar Center Company2023

Better execution, faster checkout, measurable growth

Annualized impact

~$16M

Checkout speed

30% faster

Delivery outcome

12-week launch

A high-stakes checkout redesign that succeeded not just because of the experience changes, but because better product, UX, and engineering collaboration led to stronger decisions during build, a cleaner launch, and measurable lift.

Live products

AI-native products that show execution, not just ideas

From live alpha builds to early-stage concepts, these projects show AI-native product execution with clear scope, working artifacts, and honest stage framing.

LaunchMuse campaign wizard screenshot showing the product's release planning flow.
Open alphaLive Product

LaunchMuse

Prototype velocity

Built in ~10 hours

Product stance

Narrative-first wedge

Current status

Live alpha

A live product case study about narrative-driven release planning, sharp product scoping, and how quickly a PM can now move from concept to working software.

Immunology Scout screenshot showing a literature scouting workflow for immunology research.
Concept in progressEmerging Product

Immunology Scout

Product stage

Early-stage concept

Core job

Paper + patent scouting

Trust requirement

Traceable workflow

An early-stage research grounding product combining literature and patent signals for trustworthy immunology exploration.

Stylized presentation of the OMS ChatGPT App web prototype used as a hero asset.
Live prototypeProduct Artifact

OMS ChatGPT App

Environment

Simulated OMS data

Workflow scope

Lookup + cancellation

Design priority

Trust and control

Conversational OMS prototype showing how AI can support order lookup and cancellation inside enterprise workflows with clear safeguards and user control.

How I think

A product point of view shaped by operating models, not slogans

Short essays that make the leadership logic visible behind the case studies.

Thinking4 min read

AI doesn’t fail because of the model

Most enterprise AI plans make the model choice feel like the big decision. In practice, the harder work is workflow fit, trust, champions, governance, and the middle layer that makes AI usable inside real systems.

  • Start with a workflow, not a model decision.
  • Adoption needs champions, trust, and an operating rhythm.
  • The real product is the system around the model.
Thinking7 min read

Product leadership is systems design

An essay on product leadership as systems design, with operating-model artifacts used as proof.

  • Product leadership is about how decisions get made, not just roadmap taste.
  • The operating model is part of the product outcome.
  • Making the system visible is what lets teams improve it intentionally.

Recommendations

Selected recommendations from leaders and technical partners

Short excerpts that reinforce the same signal as the work itself: business impact, strategic clarity, and strong cross-functional trust.

LinkedIn
A true business partner, not just a glorified project manager.

Executive partner across contact center modernization, roadmap ownership, and AI adoption.

Zac Bogart

C-suite leader overseeing ecommerce, digital marketing, and contact center

The Guitar Center Company

LinkedIn
Rare combination of strategic foresight and execution.

Connected Daniel's work to reusable GPT workflows, ChatGPT Enterprise rollout, and executive trust.

Sumanth Cherukuri

VP of Technology and AI leader

The Guitar Center Company

LinkedIn
Kept UX, engineering, and business aligned from definition through rollout.

Engineering partner who highlighted strong story definition, reliable execution, and calm partnership.

Christopher Pruneau

Senior Front-End Developer

The Guitar Center Company

Direct
Turned ChatGPT integrations and guardrails into clear product strategy.

Technical partner who called out executive alignment and translation of complex AI ideas into practical direction.

Daniel Das

Senior Software Engineer

AI Platform / Enterprise Systems

LinkedIn
Daniel has been a tremendous partner across the many different initiatives we've worked together on.

Sean described Daniel as an insightful, collaborative problem solver who was at the forefront of Guitar Center's early AI efforts while helping craft processes that enabled business efficiency and kept data protected.

Sean Richardson

Information Security Manager

The Guitar Center Company

Creative edge

Music stays in the portfolio as a differentiator, not a detour

My background in composition sharpens systems thinking, narrative craft, and taste. It shows up in how I frame ambiguity, prototype fast, and design product experiences that feel coherent instead of stitched together.

Daniel leaning back on a teal sofa with hands behind his head.

Contact

Looking for a product leader who can understand the system, not just the roadmap?

I do my best work in environments that value both building and thinking. Review the work, then reach out if that matches the kind of product leadership you need.