Riley Winfred · Product Management
Software engineer. Marketing leader. Entrepreneur. Bringing it all together in Product Management to build products that solve meaningful problems.
Exploring Product Manager opportunities · Denver / Remote
01 — About
I started in marketing. For about seven years I learned how to understand an audience, build a brand, and connect what a business needs to what its customers actually want.
Then I wanted to build the thing, not just tell people about it. So I became a software engineer, working on customer-facing apps, accessibility, and frontend architecture, side by side with product managers and designers.
Along the way I founded and ran businesses of my own. That's where I learned prioritization the hard way: limited time, limited money, real customers, real tradeoffs.
Most recently I worked in financial services and had hundreds of conversations about how people make money decisions. It made me want to simplify complex experiences and build products that educate and empower.
Product Management is where all of this meets: customer problems, business outcomes, technology, and execution. I'm especially drawn to mission-driven, customer-facing products in fintech, financial education, healthtech, and consumer technology.
02 — Featured Work
Different industries. Different challenges. One consistent thread: understanding problems and creating better experiences.
Curative
2021–2025
Twice co-led the Front-End Engineering Guild, bringing shared technical needs across teams into prioritization conversations with Product and Engineering leadership.
Fandango / NBCUniversal
2018–2021
Worked on customer-facing checkout across multiple entertainment brands and advocated for accessibility improvements across teams.
Dragaholic
2014–2015
Founded an LGBTQ+ digital media and community platform, grew it to 3.5M lifetime pageviews and 80K+ followers, and sold it to Q.Digital.
Clarity Coach
2026
An exploratory, AI-assisted financial education prototype that uses a guided conversation to help people organize their questions and find approachable next steps.
03 — Experience
2026
Customer research
Oct 2021 – Aug 2025
Technical leadership
Sep 2018 – Oct 2021
Customer experience
Nov 2015 – Mar 2018
Growth & brand
2014 – 2015 · Acquired
Zero to one
04 — Strengths
Seven years writing production software in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL. I understand engineering constraints because I've worked inside them.
Marketing taught me audiences; accessibility work and 200+ research conversations taught me to look for the people products leave out.
I've founded, operated, and sold businesses. I know what it means when a decision has to pay for itself.
Co-led an engineering guild and worked with leadership up to the CTO to move cross-team initiatives forward without formal authority.
I've changed disciplines more than once and taught myself along the way. Lately that means building AI prototypes to test ideas quickly.
05 — Contact
I'm always interested in connecting with people who care about solving meaningful problems, building better experiences, and learning from one another. Whether you're hiring, working in product, or just want to compare notes, I'd love to connect.
trwinfred@gmail.com