Ben Burke

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Director of Product at Alder Systems | ex-Intel

Alder Systems
Austin, TX · CT (UTC-6)
10+ years experience
Columbia University
English
Advising
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Overview

Based in Austin. I lead AI features at Alder Systems. Grew AI products revenue from $3 million to $55 million ARR. Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 19 days to 4. Coffee nerd.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on AI features
  • Second opinions on ML decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about AI features
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Feature requests for my employer's product
  • Sales demos

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Skills
MLuser researchprompt designroadmappingevaluationLLM products
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for engineers moving into product: AI features and roadmapping

Topics
AI features, prompt design, user research
Format
Office hours
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

22 years of AI features. One call a month or async reviews.

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Experience

  1. Director of Product
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Alder Systems · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 18 days to 2.
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
    • Ran 152 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  2. Product Manager
    Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
    Intel · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 14 days to 3.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Apr 2022 - Dec 2023
    HubSpot · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Ran 193 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Grew AI products revenue from $4 million to $24 million ARR.
  4. Product Manager
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
    Target · 2 yr · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Ran 143 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
  5. Principal Product Manager
    Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
    Capital One · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Backed 14 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.

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Education

  1. Columbia University
    BA, Computer Science
    2000 - 2004

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