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Kyle Epps

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI-powered education technology

Center for Creative LeadershipUniversity of PhoenixOak Ridge, NC18 Years ExperienceDirector Level

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Senior edtech product leader with nearly 20 years of experience who owned CCL's primary digital platform across strategy, execution, hiring, and operations. Most notably, they transformed a digital content delivery need into a licensing business that became the fastest-growing and highest-margin line in company history, while also shipping human-centered AI learning features and consolidating legacy tools into a unified platform.

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Key Strengths

  • Led an 8-year transformation of CCL's primary digital platform across multiple business lines
  • Owned strategy, roadmap, execution, budget, hiring, and operations for a core enterprise platform
  • Turned digital content licensing into CCL's fastest-growing and highest-margin business line
  • Strong cross-functional product leadership across stakeholders, design, engineering, business, and content teams
  • Validates stakeholder assumptions to avoid overbuilding and reduce system complexity
  • Built and shipped AI chat practice scenarios for learning workflows
  • Made effective AI architecture trade-offs, using non-RAG prompting where it improved skill-specific feedback
  • Used internal testing and database analytics to iterate AI features
  • Consolidated and retired three internal platforms by integrating simpler functionality into a supported ecosystem
  • Executed a major platform transition in 3 months during COVID after originally planning 3 years
  • Experienced people leader with nearly 20 years in product for edtech
  • Developed team talent through mentoring and promotion, including helping 3 team members earn significant promotions
  • Human-centered AI mindset focused on augmenting people rather than replacing them

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Experience

FounderStakeholderKit · Jan 2025 – Present
Director of Product, Learning TechnologiesCenter for Creative Leadership · Jan 2018 – Present
Part-Time Product ArchitectQudio · Jan 2020 – Jan 2021part-time
Director of TechnologyTeaching Channel · Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Senior Product Manager (Progressive Roles)Apollo Education Group · Jan 2008 – Jan 2018

Education

University of Phoenixmaster, Management of Information Systems (2011)
Grand Canyon Universitybachelor, Psychology (2005)

Awards

  • Brandon Hall Awards (2019–2025) - Multiple programs recognized for excellence in digital learning design and impact
  • Edison Award - Silver (2014) - Innovator’s Accelerator

Languages

English

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Kyle EppsDirector-level Product Leader specializing in AI-powered education technology