Product lead for creator and consumer software.
Available for contract PM & consulting · Stone Ridge, NY
I turn complicated problems into product experiences people actually enjoy using. Eighteen years of it — record labels, social networks, website builders, creators, and podcasters.
I led product at Simplecast and helped grow it into one of the largest podcast hosts in the U.S. before its acquisition by SiriusXM in 2020. Now I research, prototype, and ship with AI tooling — Claude Code and other tools — which means the distance between an idea and a working thing is short enough that I design and build most of it myself.
Off the clock: photographer, runner, cyclist. Always happy to recommend music, gear, or anything else you can think of — I call it Rubin Recommends.
At Field Company, a direct-to-consumer cast iron cookware brand, I run the Amazon channel and PPC, help lead the creative team, and keep Shopify moving.
Alongside that, a product contract in the wireless phone space — research-heavy work on how more people get connected. On my own time, I build products with Claude Code and AI tools.
A running list of what I build — products, tools, and personal projects. Designed and built end to end, by me, with Claude Code and other tools.
Your activities, in songs. Logs every track you hear on a run and posts a per-mile soundtrack to your Strava activity, generates a shareable Instagram Stories card, and turns every run into a playlist. Apple Music and Spotify.
View screenshotsListens through your phone's mic and announces birds out loud, hands-free, so you can keep your eyes on the trees. Cornell's BirdNET model runs entirely on-device — no account, no servers, no audio leaving the phone.
An agent that pulls every Amazon Ads report, diagnoses each campaign, recommends numeric actions, pushes them back, and tracks whether they worked. Hours of spreadsheets became a few-minute weekly review.
Open to contract product management and consulting, especially with early-stage teams.
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