Samuel Cooper

Overview

Principal Product Manager at Kainos, focused on AI features. Ran 90 customer interviews before writing the first spec. Before that: Ocado and Ashford Logistics. Most at home with prompt design and LLM products.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Principal Product Manager

   May 2023 - Present
   Kainos · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Sit on 3 boards.
   • Backed 43 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Led or co-led 18 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Senior Product Manager

   Jul 2019 - May 2023
   Ocado · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
   • Grew AI products revenue from $6 million to $55 million ARR.
3. Product Manager

   Jun 2016 - Jul 2019
   Ashford Logistics · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Took AI products activation from 30% to 56% in three quarters.
4. Senior Product Manager

   Oct 2014 - Jun 2016
   Indeed · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Launched the AI products product in 3 markets.
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 16 days to 1.
5. Senior Product Manager

   Jul 2013 - Oct 2014
   PwC · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 21 days to 1.

No references yet.

Education

1. University of Glasgow

   MA, Design
   2010 - 2012
2. University of Bristol

   BSc, Design
   2005 - 2008