Product CV

Jake Shepherd

Senior product leader with SLT experience across strategy, delivery, and growth, operating at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and commercial leadership.

Profile

I lead product in B2B and B2C environments, owning roadmap decisions, sequencing, and delivery quality. My focus is to connect strategic goals to practical execution: clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and sustainable operating cadence across teams.

Product Leadership Experience

Head of Product, Entelechy Academy

SaaS assessment ecosystem, analytics tooling, and growth evolution

  • Challenge: move from sales-led delivery to a scalable product model while supporting existing customers and new growth channels.
  • Solution: owned roadmap direction, module sequencing, and prioritisation, integrating product, marketing, and sales objectives into one operating plan.
  • Execution: led distributed design and engineering teams through sprint planning, release governance, and iteration loops informed by behavioural analytics.
  • Impact: supported 2,500+ activations over 3 months, contributed to investment outcomes above £4m, and improved product scalability and conversion alignment.

Head of Product and Design, Folio Mirrors

0-1 proposition with hardware-software coordination

  • Challenge: define a commercially viable 0-1 proposition spanning physical product, digital layer, and premium market positioning.
  • Solution: set product direction and managed trade-offs across UX, technical constraints, manufacturing, and go-to-market requirements.
  • Impact: delivered a launch-ready proposition and supported 30+ Footlocker hardware activations over 18 months, plus five trials across Clinique, Allure, and Bobbi Brown.

Founder, MSDC

Strategic product and platform delivery for client ecosystems

  • Challenge: deliver outcomes across diverse client sectors with varying delivery maturity and stakeholder expectations.
  • Solution: ran end-to-end product engagements, establishing clear scope, decision cadence, delivery governance, and executive stakeholder alignment.
  • Impact: shipped multi-channel products and service platforms with clearer proposition-market fit.

Selected Outcomes