I'm Ben Brown.

For more than a decade I've been the person brought in when a product team is stuck: a launch without direction, a team that hasn't shipped, leaders who can't agree on what comes first. I find the real problem, get the people in the room to agree on it, and get the team moving.

Pluralsight is where I learned the craft. Over four and a half years I worked across the business, from top-of-funnel marketing technology to strategic partnerships to enterprise admin experiences, before moving into leadership as Director of Product over the enterprise B2B business, with a team of up to 30 people. Customer interviews and jobs-to-be-done research there shaped how I still approach every product problem.

Since then I've led product at Weave, Vasion, and Lucid, and consulted for founders directly. At Vasion I rebuilt a product organization around customers rather than requirement lists. That change took time, and it was one of the greatest growth opportunities of my career. At Lucid I launched a new product to $1.3M in incremental ARR.

The thread through all of it is people. The outcome I care most about is someone on the team who can run the system after I'm gone: a PM ready for the next level, a designer who becomes the product owner, a founder who can finally step back.

Why Paceline

I spend a lot of time on a bike. In a paceline, one rider takes the wind at the front so the group moves faster, then rotates back so someone else can lead. That's how I want to work with every team: take the hard stretch, then hand it off.