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Ryan Gould

Director-level AI Product Manager specializing in enterprise AI deployment

Confidential AI Governance StartupBrooks InstituteRemote, USA8 Years ExperienceDirector Level

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Product leader with a decade of experience turning ambiguous business problems into deployed AI-native software across Web3, fintech, and AI governance. Notable for owning a payments/onboarding redesign at Readyverse that cut checkout drop-off 30%, building an AI governance function from scratch, and using rapid prototyping to avoid unnecessary custom builds while improving safety and cost.

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Key Strengths

  • Turns ambiguous needs into deployed AI-native products
  • End-to-end ownership of payments and onboarding redesign
  • Reduced checkout drop-off by 30% on a platform used by millions
  • Built product and operations function from scratch
  • Designed AI governance workflow for bias, fairness, explainability, privacy, and oversight
  • Strong regulated-environment product judgment in fintech/payments
  • Uses prototypes to disconfirm assumptions before committing build cost
  • Reframed vague stakeholder asks into root-cause product solutions
  • Led distributed teams across US, NZ, and India
  • Improved delivery predictability by about 30% through async operating model
  • Cost-effective consulting and build-vs-buy decision making
  • Designed AI systems to cite sources or stay silent for risk control

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Experience

Head of Product & OperationsConfidential AI Governance Startup · Oct 2025 – Present
Senior Product ManagerReadyverse Studios · Apr 2022 – Oct 2025
Senior Project ManagerSPINX Digital · Apr 2016 – Mar 2021

Education

Brooks Institutemaster, Fine Arts (2015)
University of North Dakotabachelor, Accountancy (2009)

Skills

ClaudeRequirements gatheringDigital transformationPythonProduct managementProject managementAPI integrationAI product deploymentAI prototypingSolution deliveryClient discoverySpecifications developmentCross-functional alignmentRegulated environmentsCompliance-gated rollouts

Languages

English

Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP)

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Ryan GouldDirector-level AI Product Manager specializing in enterprise AI deployment