Summary
Brandon Keao is a product leader with 16+ years blending engineering, management consulting, design, and research to help startups, scaleups, and enterprises translate customer pain into product-led growth. He’s led product and design teams at companies from Bitly and Pie Insurance to Rebrandly, and now operates as a fractional product executive helping CEOs and C-level teams align user insights with business outcomes. Comfortable in early PMF discovery and scaling toward high ARR, he pairs a Northwestern engineering background and a decade in FinTech consulting with hands-on work in product strategy, growth, and operations. Known for bridging qualitative research with measurable GTM impact, he brings a rare mix of technical fluency and go-to-market pragmatism that helps stalled innovation regain momentum.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Sales and Account Management, Sales and Account Management at Startup Institute
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Northwestern University