About

Kristi Boyd is a Senior Product Manager turned Technology Ethics Specialist with over 8 years of relevant experience in SaaS development. She is an innovative product manager with a background in QA engineering and a passion for making a difference in the world one product at a time. Kristi is bilingual in Russian and English and fluent in Difficult Customer, which enables her to communicate effectively with clients and prospects. As a Senior Product Manager at Cornerstone OnDemand, Kristi leads a cross-functional team from project conception to implementation of 3 feature releases. She supports the development team in achieving a client case backlog of 0 issues and communicates with clients to understand their needs and identify opportunities through design discovery and review sessions. Kristi also prioritizes maintenance and bug fixes as part of the regular release cadence and develops consistent business communications between multiple cross-functional teams, clients, and prospects. She supports Sales teams during scoping calls, demos, and contract negotiations. Prior to her current role, Kristi worked as an Associate Product Manager and Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Cornerstone OnDemand. As an Associate Product Manager, she produced the product strategy and roadmap that resulted in an increased scope of LMS functionality. She also developed and drove to completion all features from 400+ user stories into clear product specifications and requirements for the software development team. As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Kristi led the restructuring of existing automation to a behavior-driven-development framework, created detailed functional and system/integration test plans, and maintained a Jira project board and backlog. Kristi holds a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Azusa Pacific University and attended Moscow State School 1266. Her tech stack includes product management, QA, software engineering, testing, and integration. Kristi's strengths include developer skills, adaptability, responsibility, ideation, and activation. She is skilled in keeping her calm under pressure and creative problem-solving. Kristi is excellent in admitting "I'm not sure" and then making sure.