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 — 2014Bachelor's, Interactive Media Design · Art Institute of California, Los Angeles
2002 — 2006Kris Davis
AI Innovation & Strategy Leadership
Denver, CO | (949) 677-7408 | idealform01@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/krisdavis
Professional 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 Skills
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-to-1 Product Development | Rapid Prototyping & Validation
Professional 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)