Summary
Kaelin Burns is a product leader and trainer with 12 years of experience helping growth-stage companies define strategy, scale product teams, and ship outcomes that align with business goals. She’s led product organizations from hands-on PM work to building leadership structures—scaling teams from single digits to 16 senior PMs—and has served as CPO for an AI-driven recruiting startup. A lifelong learner who transitioned from an American Literature degree through DevBootcamp to SVPG product training, she brings a clear, communication-first approach to product craft rooted in humanities-trained clarity. Kaelin balances strategic thinking with practical delivery, frequently representing product at conferences and mentoring peers through training roles at Mind the Product and Women in Product. She’s as comfortable running discovery workshops with clients as she is coaching product teams on hiring, budgets, and alignment. Outside work she’s a dance music aficionado and avid hiker, which she credits for stamina and creative problem-solving.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, American Literature, BA, American Literature at University of Southern California
Full stack developer, Full stack developer at Dev Bootcamp
SVPG Product Training