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Mark Kemp - Director of Product in Austin, TX

Mark Kemp

Director of Product Management specializing in FinTech and financial data platforms

Consero GlobalConcordia University TexasAustin, TX15 Years ExperienceDirector Level

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Product leader in financial services who has built both customer-facing and internal AI-enabled products, including an award-nominated retirement plan platform that drove submissions from 40% to 98% in good order and unlocked a $10M revenue stream. Also built product process and team structure from the ground up at Consero, with experience applying AI/LLMs to workflow automation and reporting in complex, data-heavy environments.

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Key Strengths

  • Led end-to-end retirement plan product build that improved good-order submissions from 40% to 98%
  • Created a new $10M revenue stream by enabling retirement-plan-focused advisor growth
  • Strong roadmap prioritization focused on early user-visible value and sprint-by-sprint iteration
  • User-centered UX judgment that reduced plan entry time from 15 minutes to 3 minutes
  • Applied AI to automate bill coding, delivering roughly 50 FTE in savings
  • Translated complex reporting needs into an LLM-based product direction instead of a traditional report builder
  • Built product team structure, process, and agile practices from scratch at Consero
  • Effective cross-functional alignment across GTM, engineering, design, and stakeholders
  • Deep expertise in regulated, data-heavy financial workflows

Reference Highlights

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  • strong product leadership
  • owned product roadmap
  • led major UI revamp end-to-end
  • effective vendor coordination
  • clear and consistent communication
  • kept leadership informed on progress and roadblocks
  • good at making tradeoffs on priorities
  • collaborative decision-making
  • strong UX judgment
  • responsive to customer friction points
  • used customer feedback to improve usability
  • strong manager of the product team
  • brought external product experience to the team
  • clarified roles and responsibilities
  • established team cadences
  • improved cross-functional communication
  • empowered team members
  • positive impact on team dynamics
  • strategic AI-forward thinking
  • balanced technology to augment rather than replace people
  • significant impact on flagship application
  • improved application performance
  • modernized product look and feel
  • drove customer adoption
  • strong Agile advocate
  • able to change hearts and minds
  • improved team throughput
  • strengthened product-engineering cohesion
  • identified need for major UI relaunch
  • proactive ownership
  • effective contractor vetting and oversight
  • smooth contractor-to-internal handoff
  • handled team transition well
  • highly fluent in technical discussions
  • quickly digests technical problems
  • strong solution ideation
  • amazing design instincts
  • deep user empathy
  • innovative personalization thinking
  • good visual simplicity instincts
  • approachable
  • thoughtful cross-functional leader
  • calm under delivery pressure
  • supports team members
  • invests in career development
  • lasting organizational impact
  • customer-first mindset
  • mission-driven approach
  • focused on supporting rather than replacing people
  • improved efficiency for customer accounting tasks
  • owned flagship product leadership scope
  • empowered strategic decision-maker
  • strong Voice of the Customer focus
  • improved product prioritization through customer insight
  • streamlined and user-friendly interface improvements
  • reduced steps in user workflows
  • led complete product rewrite/redesign
  • strong business process knowledge
  • strong design instincts
  • effective partner to engineering and design
  • built strong relationships across design, development, QA, and DevOps
  • collaborative leader
  • listens to multiple points of view
  • takes definitive action
  • builds trust with colleagues
  • contextual leadership
  • supportive of teammates
  • human-centered decision-making
  • aligned organizational goals with user impact
  • gained buy-in from internal and external stakeholders

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Experience

Director of ProductConsero Global · Aug 2021 – Mar 2026
Director of Product ManagementKestra Financial · Mar 2016 – Jul 2021
Product ManagerKestra Financial · Feb 2014 – Mar 2016
Account Services ManagerNFP Securities · Nov 2011 – Feb 2014
Account Services SpecialistNFP Securities · Dec 2010 – Nov 2011
Director of Player Relations/Coach/Co-FounderCenTex Cannons Baseball · Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
VP of Operations, Secretary, Baseball CommissionerCedar Park Youth League · Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Vice PresidentMagnolia Creek HOA · Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

Education

Concordia University Texasmaster, Business Administration (2017)
University of Texas at Austinbachelor, Economics (2008)

Awards

  • 3 award nominations - WealthManagement.com (2019)

Languages

English

Certifications

FINRA Series 7 General Securities RepresentativeFINRA Series 24 General Securities PrincipalDatabricks Accredited Generative AI Fundamentals

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Mark KempDirector of Product Management specializing in FinTech and financial data platforms