Seemant Kulleen

Seemant Kulleen

I help companies fix stalled products, broken workflows, and high-stakes delivery problems.

Fractional product leadership for B2B SaaS teams that need clarity, momentum, and execution under pressure.

Currently available for interim and fractional engagements.

I've shipped developer tools, observability platforms, and cloud infrastructure products at New Relic, Checkr, and Engine Yard. I work best when a company needs someone who can understand the system quickly, push back on the wrong work, and restore forward motion without creating more noise.

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Across product, platform, internal tools, observability, sales enablement, and data-rich systems where ambiguity and delivery risk were both high.

Case Studies

Real engagements, real stakes. Stalled products, broken workflows, and delivery risk — identified, fixed, handed off.

Building Support from Zero for a High-Tech Device in a Low-Tech Market

Brontes Technologies / 3M · Support Engineer → Head of Customer Support

Brontes was days from commercial launch with no support function, no budget, and no plan. I proposed building it from scratch, hired bartenders instead of Linux engineers, and built the only team that survived the company-wide layoff when 3M shut down the division.

team building hiring hardware go-to-market customer support
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Observability Migration Turnaround Before PEAK

Gap Inc. (via Slalom) · Consulting Product Manager → Interim Director

A 15-person monitoring platform team was deadlocked by leadership conflict, with 130+ ecommerce teams waiting and PEAK weekend approaching. Broke the impasse, drove full adoption of new observability platforms, and delivered complete visibility across the event.

team leadership observability turnaround stakeholder alignment conflict resolution
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Portable Demo Environment for Sales Enablement

Checkr · Senior Product Manager

Connected engineering's dev environment with sales' demo needs, reducing prospect prep time from 2 hours to 20 minutes and saving an estimated $5M annually.

cross-functional sales enablement platform leverage
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Transforming Support from Cost Center to Profit Center

Engine Yard · Director of Customer Support → Product Lead

Engine Yard's leadership thought poor support was behind customer attrition. They were wrong about the cause. I found a neglected team carrying weight they didn't create — and turned it into a $1M annual profit center in four months.

team leadership business model customer success product strategy platform transition
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Website Performance Monitor for Non-Technical Users

New Relic · Product Lead

Built a simplified observability product for marketing managers, achieving 70% signup conversion vs. 15-20% for existing entrances — proving market expansion through packaging innovation rather than new technology.

market expansion user experience product strategy persona development
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Portable Demo Environment for Sales Enablement

Checkr · Senior Product Manager

Connected engineering's dev environment with sales' demo needs, reducing prospect prep time from 2 hours to 20 minutes and saving an estimated $5M annually.

cross-functional sales enablement platform leverage
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Transforming Support from Cost Center to Profit Center

Engine Yard · Director of Customer Support → Product Lead

Engine Yard's leadership thought poor support was behind customer attrition. They were wrong about the cause. I found a neglected team carrying weight they didn't create — and turned it into a $1M annual profit center in four months.

team leadership business model customer success product strategy platform transition
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Building Support from Zero for a High-Tech Device in a Low-Tech Market

Brontes Technologies / 3M · Support Engineer → Head of Customer Support

Brontes was days from commercial launch with no support function, no budget, and no plan. I proposed building it from scratch, hired bartenders instead of Linux engineers, and built the only team that survived the company-wide layoff when 3M shut down the division.

team building hiring hardware go-to-market customer support
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Instant Observability Platform Transformation

New Relic · Technical Program Manager → Product Lead

Re-architected a static engineering asset into a dynamic marketing platform, achieving a 4x increase in user signups by unlocking cross-functional ownership between Engineering and Marketing.

technical strategy marketing partnership platform architecture cross-functional
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Unifying In-App Messaging Across a Fragmented Organization

Checkr · Senior Product Manager

Led a six-group vendor evaluation and alignment process that replaced crude, untargeted in-app messaging with a coordinated platform — earning adoption and explicit thanks from every stakeholder group, including Legal.

cross-functional stakeholder alignment product operations customer experience
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PEAK Weekend Infrastructure Turnaround

Gap Inc. (via Slalom) · Consulting Product Manager

Stepped in as interim PM for four leaderless infrastructure teams 13 weeks before Black Friday. Stopped attrition, resolved cross-org hostility, and delivered zero downtime on the highest-stakes weekend of the year.

team leadership cloud infrastructure turnaround stakeholder alignment crisis management
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Unifying In-App Messaging Across a Fragmented Organization

Checkr · Senior Product Manager

Led a six-group vendor evaluation and alignment process that replaced crude, untargeted in-app messaging with a coordinated platform — earning adoption and explicit thanks from every stakeholder group, including Legal.

cross-functional stakeholder alignment product operations customer experience
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Instant Observability Platform Transformation

New Relic · Technical Program Manager → Product Lead

Re-architected a static engineering asset into a dynamic marketing platform, achieving a 4x increase in user signups by unlocking cross-functional ownership between Engineering and Marketing.

technical strategy marketing partnership platform architecture cross-functional
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How I Help

I usually get called in when one of these is true: a product area has stalled, a team is shipping but not solving the right problem, internal workflows are slow or politically tangled, or a deadline is real and there is no time for theater.

Fractional Product Leadership

I step into product organizations that need senior judgment without committing to a full-time hire. Defined scope, finite engagement, clean handoff.

Workflow Redesign & Internal Tools

Broken internal tooling creates invisible drag on every team it touches. I find the leverage points, fix the workflow, and build the systems your team actually needs.

Turnarounds & Critical Initiatives

I work well when momentum has dropped, the problem is fuzzy, and the cost of drift is high. I diagnose quickly, push back on the wrong work, and restore forward motion.

How I work

I'm not a generic PM-for-hire. My work tends to sit at the intersection of product judgment, operational clarity, and technical empathy. I'm most useful when a company needs someone who can understand the system quickly, push back on the wrong work, and restore forward motion without creating more noise.

Speaking & Presentations

Talks on product management, customer empathy, and data visualization.

Empathy-Driven Design

Empathy-Driven Design

Building products that truly understand user needs

Discover Your Customers

Discover Your Customers

Customer discovery frameworks for product managers

D3 Meetup Talk

D3 Meetup Talk

Data visualization techniques with D3.js

Technical Craft

Before I was working this way, much of my public-facing work showed up as data visualization and technically detailed product experiments. It’s here because it reflects how I think: structure matters, clarity matters, and good interfaces change what people can understand.

Client Work

Judicial Selection Map

Judicial Selection Map

Brennan Center for Justice

Interactive map of state judicial selection practices across all 50 states and DC, covering State Supreme Court, Appellate, and Trial Court levels.

d3.js mapping civic tech
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Campaign Finance Data

Campaign Finance Data

Campaign Finance Institute

Interactive visualizations exploring campaign finance data and political funding patterns.

d3.js data journalism civic tech
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Ribbon

Ribbon

Stanford University

Music visualization exploring melodic patterns and compositional structures.

d3.js music research
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Agent-Based Property Game

Agent-Based Property Game

UC Berkeley

Game theory simulation exploring cooperation and defection dynamics using cellular automata and agent-based modeling. Collaboration with Thomas Maillart.

d3.js simulation game theory
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Pairwise Voting Detail

Pairwise Voting Detail

Private Commission

Interactive radial visualization of pairwise voting results, showing yes/no vote distributions for organizational decision-making.

d3.js decision science UX
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Pairwise Voting Overview

Pairwise Voting Overview

Private Commission

Timeline view of all questions across users, grouped by category and ordered by recent activity.

d3.js decision science timeline
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Writing & Thinking

Personal essays, poems, and experiments. Not a product blog.

personal growth Sunday Morning Promenade
seuss A Promenade Caricature
gentoo Re-emerging History (I)
personal growth Twishibane
product management Accountability
product management Anchoring Anxious
personal growth Fall
seuss Doctor Who in One or Two
doctor who K]arabraxo[s
sherlock #Sherlocked (live)
seuss Almost "Almost Math"