Brent Cook

About

Former high school teacher turned product leader with deep experience in EdTech, scholarly search/discovery, and mobile content platforms. They’ve led complex end-to-end launches, including a direct-to-consumer app storefront delivered on a 7-month timeline and AI-powered research discovery features for a 5-billion-record search platform, while bringing a strong human-centered, accessibility-first perspective to AI products.

Key Strengths

• Led a direct-to-consumer mobile storefront launch end-to-end in 7 months under an 8-month deadline
• Strong cross-functional leadership across engineering, UX, marketing, support, finance, and executives
• Builds structured product roadmaps and prioritized backlogs from ambiguous stakeholder input
• Pragmatic MVP scoping and tradeoff management under time and business constraints
• AI/ML product judgment balancing model confidence, coverage, and user trust
• Data-driven product validation using CTR, clicks per session, time on site, and error-report monitoring
• Search and discovery product expertise in scholarly research workflows
• UX experimentation that materially improved engagement with related content and article previews
• Stakeholder alignment across students, librarians, support, and engineering using RICE and transparent communication
• People manager and mentor who develops talent by matching strengths to role needs
• Accessibility- and equity-minded EdTech product thinking grounded in former teaching experience
• Human-centered AI philosophy emphasizing tutor oversight, transparency, and measurable satisfaction

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