David Bard on Superpeer

On-demand Product Coaching and Advisory

David Bard is a product management and customer experience coach with over twenty years of working with product teams at multinational corporations. David works closely with product-led startups, from seed to unicorn, coaching executives and their product, design, and development teams on achieving product-market fit, go-to-market strategies, increasing reach, optimizing development, and scaling adoption to increase overall value. David practices a user-centered, data-focused, and design-thinking approach to developing solutions, which achieves greater customer satisfaction, making it easier to scale and grow revenue. Streamlining his methods into an easy-to-follow framework, David developed the "Five Principles for Successful Digital Products," which he uses to coach teams on how to build the right product for the right market. David also coaches teams to identify the "7 Pitfalls of Product Organizations" and how to avoid or course-correct them to achieve a market leader position. David served as the interim Chief Product Officer at CareerArc during its transition to a SaaS-based, pioneering social recruiting platform. David was instrumental in developing a new product strategy, experience, and operational plan. This included branding, product marketing, and product and development staff training in best practices, which included improving cross-departmental collaboration. Before founding VP Product Coaching and serving as interim CPO at CareerArc, David served as Vice President of Product and User Experience at Elevate Services, where he built and managed a cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, and front-end engineers. At Elevate, David shepherded the product strategy and evolution of the Cael Product Suite to help Elevate grow revenue from $30 million to $82 million in four years. As of 2024, Elevate's revenue is approaching $100 million. Prior to joining Elevate, David served as the Head of User Experience at Thomson Reuters Elite, managing a global team of UX designers in the design and launch of five mobile apps and desktop products for the large global law firm and corporate legal enterprise markets. In 2023, TGP acquired a majority stake in Elite for $500 million. David was an early employee of Cornerstone OnDemand as its first UX hire during its transition from a consumer online education service to a global, SaaS-based leader in human capital management. CSOD went public in 2011 and was acquired in 2021 for $5.2 billion. Reach out to David for availability. Engagement types and services include single-day workshops and monthly or quarterly coaching subscriptions for individuals and teams.