{"id":5536,"date":"2025-07-18T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/designops-summit\/?post_type=speakers&#038;p=5536"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:02:15","slug":"kaaren-hanson","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/designops-summit\/people\/kaaren-hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaaren Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to creating world-class experiences that drive business results. Scale design teams and lead enterprise-wide transformations that align the broader organization around customer outcomes that drive revenue and efficiency. Expertise in financial services, social media, advertising, customer experience, and two-sided markets; experiences span JPMC, Meta, Intuit as well as pre-IPO startups <\/p>\n<p>I am energized by aligning and empowering teams of product, engineering, data, design, operations, and marketing to create great experiences that rapidly grow the business. I collaborate seamlessly with legal and controls to reduce risk in a customer-first manner.<\/p>\n<p>I am an active leader in the design and user experience fields. I am a board and founding member of the Design Executive Council and an occasional speaker at Stanford University and California College of the Arts. My team&#8217;s successes have been written up in business books and periodicals such as the Harvard Business Review, Scaling Excellence, Bloomberg Business Week, and Inc Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy hiring unique and impactful talent and developing strong alignment, leadership and craft; I&#8217;ve led teams as small as 25 and as large as 1100. I believe in transparency, first-principles, and the value of deep curiosity. I lead with empathy, push to go extremely broad with potential solutions, and am a fan of lean experiments with data-informed decision-making. I am most happy when balancing big ideas with shipping products that solve important customer problems and drive business impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to creating world-class experiences that drive business results. Scale design teams and lead enterprise-wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5716,"template":"","class_list":["post-5536","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/designops-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/5536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/designops-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/designops-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/designops-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/designops-summit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}