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Kris Davis

AI Innovation & Strategy Leadership

Summary

Innovation and strategy leader helping enterprise executives turn AI ambition into production-ready products. I partner with VP and C-suite leaders to re-imagine core business processes, customer experiences, and operating models with cloud and AI. Operating with a product-centric mindset, I run design-thinking workshops and discovery sprints to identify high-impact use cases, then translate ambiguous enterprise challenges into roadmaps, ROI cases, and rapid prototypes. My focus is building scalable products and repeatable frameworks, not bespoke one-off deliverables. Deep hands-on experience with generative and agentic AI, spanning LLMs, tool-calling, and context management.

Core Capabilities

  • Innovation & Design Strategy
  • Executive (VP/CxO) Advisory
  • Design Thinking & Discovery Sprints
  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • ROI & Value Case Modeling
  • Scalable Product Frameworks
  • Generative & Agentic AI (LLMs, tool-calling, RAG)
  • 0→1 Product Development
  • Rapid Prototyping & Validation

Experience

Head of Product Experience & Growth · Snowfire.ai

Jan 2024 — Present
  • Employee #2 and named inventor on the patent-pending method for adaptive decision intelligence; first hire brought in by the CEO to build the idea.
  • Turned an undefined AI category into a repeatable, scalable product platform — a metric ontology and context engine that lets the AI reason about a company's data the way its leaders do.
  • Defined system behavior for AI-generated recommendations, including input structuring, prompt logic, output validation, and action flows.
  • Partnered with engineering on context management, latency constraints, and response reliability to align UX decisions with production realities.
  • Conceived and built an agentic marketing function (de-anonymize, qualify, nurture, hand off) and replatformed the app front end onto React using AI coding agents.
  • Drove the funnel from vision to 1,000+ demos, 250 enterprise trials, $6M in closed sales, and $60M in active pipeline.

Founding Designer · Careerbird.ai

Aug 2024 — Present
  • Hired by the CEO as first collaborator to help design a skills-first talent development platform unifying job architecture, skills intelligence, personalized learning, and career pathing for mid-size organizations; continue to partner with the CEO past initial definition to mature the application.
  • Defined how AI turns static job descriptions into a living framework for skills assessment, employee growth, and workforce planning.
  • Built the design system from the ground up and led prototyping and validation that shaped the product architecture and user journey.
  • Helped take the platform from whiteboard to a market-ready product and secured 30 beta customers at launch.

Founding Designer · Mallory.ai

Sep 2025 — Jan 2026
  • Hired by the CEO as design partner for a focused 3-month engagement to shape and design the 0-to-1 MVP for Mallory, an agentic exposure-intelligence platform that correlates internet-wide threat activity against a company's attack surface and routes prioritized remediation into the tools security teams already run.
  • Partnered directly with the founder to translate an ambiguous vision into a concrete, validated product definition, defining how analysts understand exposures, prioritize by live adversary behavior, and act.
  • Designed and built the v1 product experience with the founding engineering team, using AI tools to prototype and iterate quickly and to lock in tool-calling patterns before committing to build.
  • Helped take the platform from whiteboard to a market-ready MVP the team could build against with confidence.

Design Advisor · Turngate Security

Jan 2024 — Present
  • Advises the executive team on AI-informed product strategy and complex system design for a cybersecurity product.
  • Provides guidance on integrating intelligent workflows and translating technical constraints into scalable, user-centered design solutions.

Director of Product Design · Miles Partnership

Apr 2024 — Feb 2025
  • Led product design across a portfolio of digital products, introducing scalable design systems and delivery frameworks.
  • Standardized high-impact design artifacts to improve cross-functional alignment and execution quality.
  • Built competency frameworks and career development systems adopted across teams.
  • Launched a journey mapping service offering that expanded revenue and deepened client engagement.

Head of Product Design & Brand · Fixify.ai

Oct 2023 — Jan 2024
  • Hired by the CEO to help design AI-assisted IT support workflows combining LLM automation with human escalation paths.
  • Defined when and how AI responses are generated, validated, and handed off to human agents, with interaction patterns for ambiguity, failure states, and low-confidence outputs.
  • Established trust mechanisms — transparency cues and user control over automated actions — delivering scalable support experiences that reduced manual workload while maintaining service quality.

Director of Product Design & Strategy · Deepwatch

Dec 2021 — Oct 2023
  • Led design and delivery of a security operations platform serving 200+ enterprise customers, taking it from concept to production in 6 months.
  • Defined product strategy and UX direction across complex, data-intensive workflows.
  • Built and scaled cross-functional teams across product, design, and engineering.
  • Established research-driven product discovery and dual-track agile processes.

Sr. Product Design Manager · Deepwatch

Nov 2020 — Dec 2021
  • First design leader responsible for building the product design function.
  • Established research programs, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration models.
  • Redesigned the flagship mobile application to improve usability and adoption.

User Experience Manager · Slalom Consulting

Apr 2019 — Nov 2020
  • Led UX teams across enterprise client engagements and delivered end-to-end product design solutions across industries.
  • Developed strategic client relationships and contributed to business development.

Sr. UX Architect · Deloitte Digital

Dec 2014 — Apr 2019
  • Led enterprise design initiatives for Fortune 500 clients and defined digital transformation strategies aligned to business and user needs.
  • Delivered multi-platform experiences across web and mobile ecosystems.

Earlier Experience

2006 — 2014
  • Product Management Instructor · General Assembly
  • UX Architect Team Lead · Sears Holding Labs
  • Product Manager · Kareo
  • Product Design & UX roles · Webvisible / LRN / GoLive2 / Sunshine Products

Education

Master's, Product Design Management · Northwestern University, Chicago

2012 — 2014

Bachelor's, Interactive Media Design · Art Institute of California, Los Angeles

2002 — 2006