Product Management Leader  ·  M.Eng  ·  Philadelphia, PA
5x Webby Award Winner
Amazon Best Selling Author
12+ Years in Product
Brian Hanley.
Who I am
Product leader. AI strategist. Author. 12+ years shipping digital products for Fortune 500 brands. Currently doing early thinking on how brands show up inside LLMs and AI-generated search responses. I turn ambiguity into shipped product. Say hello.
By the numbers
12+
Years in product
5x
Webby Awards
7M+
Users reached
2
5-star books
I've worked on products for
Comcast·Google·NBC·Nike·Samsung·Tiffany & Co.·Goldman Sachs·Spotify·CVS Health·The Sphere·Time·RealClearPolitics·Complex·HuffPost·SONIC·McDonald's·Jim Beam·Diageo·Jägermeister·McCormick & Co.·LA Dodgers·L'Oréal·Godiva·Mercedes-Benz·Volvo·Telstra·JP Morgan·TD Bank·E*Trade·Galaxy One·Best Buy·Fossil Group·David Yurman·Novartis·Johnson & Johnson·AbbVie·Abbott Labs·Intermountain Health·NCBA·QuickBooks·Pivotal·R/GA·Code & Theory·Hugo & Cat·PwC· Comcast·Google·NBC·Nike·Samsung·Tiffany & Co.·Goldman Sachs·Spotify·CVS Health·The Sphere·Time·RealClearPolitics·Complex·HuffPost·SONIC·McDonald's·Jim Beam·Diageo·Jägermeister·McCormick & Co.·LA Dodgers·L'Oréal·Godiva·Mercedes-Benz·Volvo·Telstra·JP Morgan·TD Bank·E*Trade·Galaxy One·Best Buy·Fossil Group·David Yurman·Novartis·Johnson & Johnson·AbbVie·Abbott Labs·Intermountain Health·NCBA·QuickBooks·Pivotal·R/GA·Code & Theory·Hugo & Cat·PwC·
Product
Leader

For over 12 years, I've led product management at top agencies including R/GA, PwC and Code & Theory, as well as directly at Tiffany & Co., Goldman Sachs and Comcast. I've co-led 50-person product departments, managed $10M+ client portfolios, and served as connective tissue across engineering, legal, UX, billing, and AI teams on complex, multi-party programs with non-negotiable deadlines.

I hold a Master of Engineering from Lehigh University (full scholarship, GPA 3.76), a BA from Lehigh (GPA 3.78), and conducted postgraduate research at the University of Pennsylvania.

AI
Strategist

My current work sits at the intersection of AI, product strategy, and content architecture. At Comcast, I'm part of the early team thinking through how brands show up inside LLM-generated responses, a practice the industry is starting to call Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). It's genuinely new territory. The frameworks are still forming, the measurement tools are nascent, and the organizations thinking seriously about it are few and far between. I'm helping shape what that practice looks like at enterprise scale.

Beyond GEO, my AI work spans product strategy for editorial platforms, AI-powered personalization, LLM-ready knowledge base design, and building the content and data foundations that make AI-driven experiences possible at all.

Published
Author

I've been thinking about AI product strategy for years, building it, practicing it, writing about it. I decided I should do something with all that material and experience, so I wrote the books I wished existed when I was building products. Both are rated five stars on Amazon.

You Work for Your User, co-authored with two leading CTOs, is a manifesto for building AI products that serve real humans. It recently hit Amazon Best Seller status. The Roadmap Is a Lie cuts through agile theater to show how focus, clarity, and the courage to say no transform product teams. "Sharp, no-nonsense playbook… a must-read for anyone building products in high-stakes, fast-moving environments." Dr. Michael Lehman, MD, MBA

Work

Selected projects across product strategy, AI, eCommerce, live data, and digital transformation.

Comcast2025 – Present20M+
GEO / AI Strategy + eCommerce · Lead PMXfinityGEO program · LLM citation strategy · StreamStore merchandising redesign
NBCCode & Theory · 20243x
Live Data · Webby AwardNBC Big Board3x Webby Award winner · Used on-air by Steve Kornacki on election night
NikeR/GA · 20221.42B
Digital Activation · R/GANike / FIFA World Cup 2022Most-watched sporting event in history · 1.42B viewers for the final
SamsungR/GA1B
eCommerce · R/GASamsung.com RebuildAtomic design system · Global product discovery · 1B+ monthly visits
SONICR/GA · Webby Winner4.9★
Mobile App · R/GASONIC Drive-In App#1 QSR app · 4.9 stars · Outperformed McDonald's, Starbucks & 37 other chains
IntermountainHugo & Cat · 20237M
Digital Rebrand · Hugo & CatIntermountain Health+21% appointments · $400K/yr saved · 7M+ users in year two
TiffanyIn-house · 2017–202025+
Luxury eCommerce · In-houseTiffany & Co.End-to-end product roadmap · AEM replatform · 25+ global storefronts
Goldman2017500K
Fintech · Goldman SachsHonest Dollar$0 to 500K users · 9-month MVP · SEC/FINRA compliant retirement platform
The SphereCode & Theory$M+
Competitive Pitch · Code & TheoryThe Sphere, Las VegasWon vs 10+ agencies · Multi-million dollar narrative-first digital strategy
HELLO.
BrianJosephHanley@gmail.com 👋 215-706-9292 · Philadelphia, PA 19147