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Principal Product Manager West Jordan, Utah Open to full-time & fractional roles

I untangle problems that span many teams and systems.

Principal Product Manager with 18 years in online retail. I find where the pieces connect, turn them into a plan everyone can execute, and measure what happens after launch.

Website & App Replatforming A/B Testing Checkout & Conversion Multi-Brand Platforms International Expansion Supplier Platforms
Most recent role
Principal PM, Overstock.com (Beyond, Inc.)
Experience
18 years in online retail: 14 in operations, 4 in product
Scale
Site and apps behind ~20% of company sales; ~100 contributors across 15 teams
Looking for
Senior / Principal PM roles in e-commerce or mission-driven work
Selected work

Results at a glance

+40 pts
Page speed after replatform

Moved Overstock.com and its apps off Shopify onto the company's own platform in eight months, with about 100 people across 15 teams. Removed recurring platform fees.

17% → 24%
Cart to checkout, recovered

Found where shoppers got stuck after the new site launched and fixed it, ending above the pre-launch rate of 21%.

−60%
Supplier onboarding call time

Chose to buy an in-app guidance tool instead of building one. Reached 85% of supplier users and cut billing questions by 80%.

About me

Operator first. Product manager now.

I spent fourteen years running supplier, merchandising, and marketplace teams before moving into product. That's why I build tools that replace manual work: I did the manual work first.

I see the whole system

Customers, suppliers, operations, and engineering. I know how a change in one ripples through the others.

Proof over pedigree

No traditional degree. I went from account manager to Principal PM on results.

I test before I trust

Big calls get an A/B test and success criteria agreed up front, including the ones leadership asks for.

Hiring for product?

I'm open to Senior and Principal PM roles, and to fractional or advisory work.

Work

Case studies

Each one follows the same format: the problem, what I decided, how it got done, and what happened. One is a failure, kept on purpose.

Platform migration

Moving Overstock.com off Shopify

Shipped

Up to +40 page speed points · platform fees removed · 172 issues caught before launch

Problem:
The website ran on Shopify and the apps on Tapcart. Pages were slow, data didn't match between systems, and the company paid recurring platform fees.

Solve:
Move the website and iOS and Android apps onto the company's own platform, built on Vercel.

How:
Coordinated about 100 people across 15 teams, including Engineering, UX, Security, Finance, Merchandising, and Customer Care, over eight months. Ran a company-wide "bug bounty" before launch that found 172 issues, including 4 critical security problems, all fixed before go-live.

Outcome:
Faster pages, reporting that matches across web and app, a platform that can serve more than one brand, and no more third-party platform fees.

Google Lighthouse score · Shopify vs. own platform
Homepage · Desktop53 → 86
Category page · Mobile30 → 50
Product page · Desktop54 → 62
Shopify Own platform
New program · Cross-functional

A new way for suppliers to fund promotions

Shipped · 0-to-1

Suppliers representing 96.8% of sales opted in · a major new source of margin in year one

Problem:
Promotions were pay-to-play. A few large suppliers took most of the spots, sale events looked the same every time, and Finance couldn't predict promotion costs.

Solve:
Replace opt-in fees with a program where every supplier contributes a percentage of sales toward promotions.

How:
As Merchandising lead and acting product manager, I coordinated Legal, Finance, Merchandising, Marketing, Product, and Engineering. We set rates by category, sent agreements at scale through Adobe Sign, and tracked completion in Salesforce. I explained the program to suppliers as a shared investment before asking them to join.

Outcome:
Suppliers representing 96.8% of sales opted in, and the program became a major new source of margin in its first year.

Build vs. buy · Adoption

Putting help inside the supplier portal

Shipped · Build vs. buy

85% of supplier users reached · −60% onboarding call time · −80% billing questions

Problem:
Suppliers left the portal to hunt for training, so support teams spent their time answering the same how-to questions.

Solve:
Buy a third-party guidance tool (WalkMe) instead of building one. When cost concerns stalled the decision, I won approval with a working demo.

How:
Added step-by-step walkthroughs, hover tips, and a help menu inside the tools suppliers already used.

Outcome:
Reached 85% of supplier users. Onboarding call time fell 60%, product-update support cases 33%, and billing questions 80%.

Checkout · Conversion

Fixing the drop from cart to checkout

Shipped

17% → 24% click-through, above the 21% pre-launch rate

Problem:
After the new site launched, fewer shoppers moved from cart to checkout: 17%, down from 21%. Mobile was worst.

Solve:
Find the exact spot shoppers got stuck before changing anything.

How:
Used Google Analytics funnels and Microsoft Clarity session recordings. Shipped a simpler cart summary, a checkout button that stays visible on mobile, and clearer discount messaging, measuring each change.

Outcome:
Click-through reached 24%, above where it started. A related A/B test sent shoppers straight to the cart after Add to Cart and lifted conversion 2%.

Cart → Checkout click-through
21% 17% 24%
Before launchAfter launchRecovered
New feature · A/B testing

Sale badges on individual products

Shipped · 0-to-1

Memorial Day sales doubled year over year · +2.1% conversion from follow-up tests

Problem:
Shoppers couldn't tell which products were on sale without clicking into each one.

Solve:
Launch sale badges on individual products as a quick proof of concept instead of waiting for a full build.

How:
Reused existing holiday promotion code to get it live fast, then ran follow-up badge tests to refine it.

Outcome:
Memorial Day sales doubled year over year. Follow-up tests lifted conversion another 2.1%.

Customer researchAI-assisted

Ranking why customers contact support

Shipped

Three data sources, one ranked list · led to a My Orders chatbot and the fix below

Problem:
Order questions drove a large share of support contacts, but no one had ranked them. Teams fixed whatever was loudest.

Solve:
Start from customer evidence instead of the backlog, and rank issues by how many people they affect.

How:
Combined customer feedback, support case data, and session recordings. Used Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to speed up the research, and checked every output against internal data before it shaped the roadmap.

Outcome:
Order tracking led by a wide margin. That ranking produced a chatbot on My Orders and the sign-in removal below.

Order-related contacts by reason
Order tracking & delivery issues34.5%
Return & refund status16.6%
Order cancellation5.7%
Replacement parts tracking4.3%
Account update confirmation1.9%
Customer experiencePrivacy

Tracking an order without signing in

Shipped

Sign-in wall removed for ~75% of orders · personal details still protected

Problem:
About 75% of orders were placed as guests, but tracking a package from a shipping email still required signing in.

Solve:
Let customers see order status directly from the email on web and app.

How:
Walked the flow as a customer would, then worked with Engineering, UX, and privacy reviewers to decide what each page could safely show without a login.

Outcome:
Customers get to their order status in one click, and personal details stay hidden.

Orders by checkout type
~75%
Guest checkout Signed in

Most customers had no account, yet tracking required one.

A/B testing

Testing an untested assumption

Validated

Existing design won by 75 basis points

Problem:
Search results showed options as "5 Sizes, 10 Colors." Many believed "21 Options" would convert better, but no one had tested it.

Solve:
Run an A/B test with the current label as the control.

How:
Ran it to statistical significance instead of reading early results.

Outcome:
The current label converted 75 basis points better, so it stayed, now backed by data.

Product badge: control vs. test
5 Sizes 10 Colors
Control (winner)
21 Options
Test
Stakeholder alignment · A/B testing

Saying "not yet" to leadership, with data

Kept original

Protected sales from a change that would have cost about 1% in conversion

Problem:
Leadership wanted the new Designer store featured prominently in the top navigation. I was concerned it would pull shoppers away from better-performing categories.

Solve:
Run a 50/50 A/B test instead of debating it.

How:
Agreed on success criteria with executives before the test started, then ran it for 35 days.

Outcome:
The change showed a 1.07% drag on conversion, so we kept the original, with executive support because the rules were set up front.

Operations · Shipping

Faster, cheaper shipping to Canada

Shipped

Lower shipping costs · 3 fewer days in U.S. transit on about a quarter of Canada orders

Problem:
Every Canada order went through one East Coast hub, even orders from western warehouses.

Solve:
Route each order to the nearest shipping hub and pick the carrier by package weight.

How:
Worked with our third-party logistics partner to map warehouse regions to hubs and set weight-based carrier rules.

Outcome:
Lower shipping costs and three fewer days in U.S. transit on about a quarter of Canada orders.

Want the full picture?

My resume has every role, team size, and tool. Or reach out and we can talk through any of these.

Process

How I work

The order shifts with the problem. One thing doesn't: agree on why before deciding what.

1

Align on the goal

Agree on who the customer is, what they need, and what success looks like before anything gets built.

FigJamConfluence
2

Size the problem

Use funnel data, session recordings, and surveys to measure the issue before proposing a fix.

GA4Microsoft ClarityQuantum MetricQualtricsSQL
3

Prioritize

Score requests with BRICE (Brand, Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort) so every team can see why something is ranked where it is.

JiraAsana
4

Research and write requirements

Competitive reviews, UX audits, and customer journey maps shape what we build. Requests come through an intake form so the problem is defined first.

FigmaLucidchartConfluence
5

Ship small, then iterate

Release the smallest version that tests the idea, then build on what we learn. Nothing launches without a measurement plan.

StatsigAgile / Scrum
6

Measure and share results

After launch, check results against the plan and share them with the whole company, including what didn't work.

StatsigGA4Firebase

Frameworks I've introduced

Request intake

A short form that asks for the problem, who it affects, and the expected benefit before work starts.

BRICE scoring

One scoring model so requests are ranked the same way, even when the business case is hard to size.

Bug triage

Blocker, High, Medium, Fast-follow, Defer. Turns a long bug list into a clear go/no-go call.

Launch notices

A standard write-up after each release covering what shipped, the results, and what's next.

Tools & systems
Product & delivery
JiraConfluenceAsanaFigmaFigJamLucidchart
Testing & analytics
StatsigGA4Microsoft ClarityQuantum MetricFirebaseSQLMicroStrategy
Commerce platforms
VercelShopifyTapcartContentstackGoogle Retail SearchBrowserStack
Payments
Apple PayPayPalAffirm
Partner & marketing
SalesforceSalesforce Marketing CloudAdobe SignWalkMeChannelAdvisor
Research & AI
QualtricsPollfishHarris PollClaudeGeminiPerplexity
Resume

Krystal Love

Principal Product Manager · West Jordan, Utah · hello@krystallove.net · LinkedIn

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Summary

Principal Product Manager with 18 years in online retail. I untangle problems that span many teams and systems, find where they connect, and turn them into plans everyone can execute against. I started in operations, spending fourteen years running supplier, merchandising, and marketplace teams, then moved into product to build the tools and platforms that replaced the manual work. Most recently I led the move of Overstock.com off Shopify onto its own platform with about 100 contributors across 15 teams, set the roadmap for five web and mobile engineering teams across the US, Ireland, and the Philippines, and launched a Canadian website and mobile app.

Experience

Beyond, Inc. (formerly Overstock.com, Inc.) · Midvale, Utah · 2008 – 2026
Online retailer that owns the Overstock.com and Bed Bath & Beyond brands (NYSE: BYON).

Principal Product Manager, Overstock Site Experience

Oct 2024 – Jun 2026

Owned the website and mobile app experience for Overstock.com, an off-price online retailer selling home goods, designer goods, and jewelry.

  • Owned the Overstock.com website and iOS and Android apps end to end, a business representing about 20% of total company sales, with two direct reports covering Customer Service and Search.
  • Led the eight-month move of the website and apps off Shopify and Tapcart onto the company's own platform (built on Vercel), coordinating about 100 contributors across 15 teams. Eliminated recurring platform fees and improved page speed scores by up to 40 points (Google Lighthouse).
  • Ran a company-wide "bug bounty" before launch, collecting 172 issues including 4 critical security vulnerabilities, all fixed before full launch.
  • Raised cart-to-checkout click-through from 17% to 24% after launch (above the 21% pre-launch rate) by pinpointing where customers got stuck with GA4 and Microsoft Clarity.
  • Raised conversion 2% by sending shoppers straight to the cart after Add to Cart, validated through a Statsig A/B test.
  • Led the effort to run Overstock and Bed Bath & Beyond on one shared front end, launching on product listing and product detail pages with shared content in Contentstack.
  • Doubled Memorial Day sales year over year by launching sale badges on individual products, a new (0-to-1) proof of concept. Follow-up badge tests lifted conversion another 2.1%.
  • Led product for the Designer store launch. Set up leadership's top-navigation request as a 50/50 A/B test; it showed a 1.07% drag after 35 days, so the original design stayed with executive support.
  • Confirmed through testing that the existing product options label converted 75 basis points better than the proposed alternative.
  • Removed the sign-in requirement for tracking an order from shipping emails, since ~75% of orders were guest checkouts.
  • Ranked the top reasons customers contacted support about orders, using Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to speed up research and checking every output against internal data. Led to a My Orders chatbot and the sign-in removal above.
  • Defined how sizes and colors are sorted on product pages and reduced recommendation carousels to a standard one to three across both brands.

Senior Product Manager, International Expansion & Site Experience

Oct 2022 – Oct 2024

Led product strategy for Bed Bath & Beyond Canada (formerly Overstock Canada), including the launch, rebrand, and expansion of the website and apps.

  • Set the roadmap across five engineering teams (web and iOS and Android, front end and back end), including five contracted associates from Ripe Concepts, across the US, Ireland, and the Philippines.
  • Owned the Canada website and its rebrand to Bed Bath & Beyond Canada, including a new iOS and Android app.
  • Cut searches with no results from 4.19% to 1.56% and lifted conversion about 50 basis points by launching Google Retail Search.
  • Contributed to a 130 basis point year-over-year conversion increase by running the testing and customer behavior program (Statsig, GA4, Microsoft Clarity).
  • Lifted conversion 1.5% with countdown timers on sales ending within 72 hours.
  • Worked with a third-party logistics partner to reroute cross-border orders by region and package weight, lowering shipping costs and cutting three days of U.S. transit on about a quarter of Canada orders.
  • Added Apple Pay at checkout, which grew to 15% of total order volume.
  • Used customer survey data to launch the Canada app with promo codes instead of coupons, matching how Canadian shoppers expect to save.
  • Introduced a request intake form and BRICE scoring so business teams could see how and why requests were prioritized.

Senior Director, Merchandising Operations

Mar 2020 – Sep 2022

Led operations, service standards, and processes across a network of 1,500+ suppliers who list and ship products sold on Overstock.com.

  • Led a team of 30 (2 directors, 4 managers) supporting 1,500+ suppliers and about 1 million order lines at the 2020 peak.
  • As Merchandising lead and acting product manager, coordinated Legal, Finance, Merchandising, Marketing, Product, and Engineering to launch the Marketing Allowance Program (0-to-1), using Adobe Sign and Salesforce. Suppliers representing 96.8% of sales opted in.
  • Served as primary business owner for Supplier Oasis, the company's supplier portal, setting its roadmap and requirements with Product.
  • Beat supplier onboarding targets by streamlining Salesforce workflows and adding self-service training (Supplier University).
  • Guided a large Merchandising reorganization and raised supplier email open rates about 20%.

Director, Partner Experience

Sep 2018 – Mar 2020

Owned the tools, training, processes, and communications suppliers used to manage their business on the site.

  • Managed two direct reports across supplier training, communications, and experience programs.
  • Chose to buy an in-app guidance tool (WalkMe) instead of building one, winning approval with a working demo.
  • Reached 85% of supplier users and cut onboarding call time 60%, product-update cases 33%, and billing inquiries 80%.
  • Lifted conversion 20 basis points across top suppliers within 30 days with a self-service improvement tool.
  • Planned content for Partner Summit, an executive event for the top 45 partners (about 60% of company sales).

Earlier Overstock.com Roles

Jan 2008 – Sep 2018

Senior Manager, Marketplace Operations · Operations Manager, Special Acquisitions · Manager, Product Quality Assurance · Team Lead, Supplier Management · Account Manager, Jewelry & Watches

  • Grew the marketplace program to 10% of company revenue in its first year, managing a team of 6 and onboarding brands through ChannelAdvisor.
  • Led the largest inventory acquisition in company history (1 million units).
  • Managed teams of 5 to 6 overseeing about 400 suppliers, after starting as an account manager for 150+ suppliers.

Core Competencies

Product Strategy & RoadmapsA/B TestingConversion & Checkout ReplatformingMulti-Brand PlatformsInternational Expansion Customer Research & AnalyticsSupplier PlatformsDistributed Team Leadership

Tools & Systems

Product & delivery: Jira, Confluence, Asana, Figma, FigJam, Lucidchart, Planner
Testing & analytics: Statsig, GA4, Microsoft Clarity, Quantum Metric, Firebase, SQL, MicroStrategy
Commerce: Vercel, Shopify and Tapcart (migrated off), Contentstack, Google Retail Search, BrowserStack, iOS and Android apps
Payments: Apple Pay, PayPal, Affirm
Partner & marketing: Salesforce, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Sign, WalkMe, ChannelAdvisor
Research & AI: Pollfish, Harris Poll, Qualtrics, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity

Professional Development

McKinsey Management Program, McKinsey Academy (2020) · Radical Product Thinking: Vision Setting, Pendo / Mind the Product (2024) · Operations Management, University of Illinois via Coursera (2018) · Mastering Agile Scrum Project Management, Udemy

Recognition

Recognized by the Chief Product Officer and President, spotlighted by a VP of Software Development, and nominated for the company's first annual Women in Tech Excellence Award.

About

A product leader who started in operations.

I joined Overstock in 2008 as an account manager for 150+ jewelry and watch suppliers. Over fourteen years I ran supplier, merchandising, and marketplace teams, and kept finding problems that only better tools could fix. So I moved into product to build them.

That path taught me how one decision ripples through suppliers, operations, engineering, and customers. I ask why before I optimize, and I learn the people and constraints before I redesign a process.

I do my best work with real ownership: messy discovery, fast execution, and a clear result at the end.

Krystal Love, Principal Product Manager
In their words

"...She pivoted from a partner-facing role into product management and has built fantastic relationships with the development teams, business teams, and managers she works with in owning the roadmap. I'm always impressed to see people take on new challenges like this... good leadership and execution skills thrive no matter the domain they operate in."

VP, Software Development

"Krystal is the definition of a team player: extremely thorough, with a level of efficiency that's second to none. She brings a level head to stressful situations and always delivers quality results. On time. Every time."

Business stakeholder

"Krystal is tenacious in her efforts to ensure quality outcomes. She often recognizes issues that others miss and is skilled at driving others to implement the solution. In short, Krystal gets sh*t done!"

Product Manager, peer

Where I'm headed

The same skills, wherever the problem matters.

My work has been about removing friction for people who need to get something done: a shopper at checkout, a supplier in a new portal, a customer tracking an order. That skill isn't limited to retail, and I'm open to mission-driven work where it applies.

Raised conversion and checkout completion
→
Helping people finish an important task
Removed unnecessary sign-in steps
→
Lowering barriers for people who just need access
Cut dead-end searches by 62%
→
Helping people find what they need the first time
Got 85% of suppliers using in-app help
→
Helping non-experts succeed in a new system
Off the clock

A homebody at heart.

My family is my main crew: movie nights, board games, Mario Party, and the occasional Sharks game. I train for longevity, not likes. I want to carry my own groceries well into my 80s, and showing up for the workouts I don't feel like doing is the same discipline I bring to work.

I also have one very good dog and one opinionated cat.

Have a hard problem in a new space? I'd like to hear about it.

Let's connect
Services

Fractional and advisory work

Through KL Product Services LLC, I help teams where systems, partners, and roadmaps meet, and where several teams are each right but not aligned.

Platform migration

Getting a replatform across the line

Migrations fail in the gaps: missed requirements, unowned edge cases, funnels nobody watched. I run the business side: requirements, phased scope, risks, and post-launch recovery.

I led an eight-month move off Shopify with about 100 contributors, then recovered cart-to-checkout above its pre-launch rate.

Best fit: online retail and marketplace teams planning or mid-migration.
Supplier enablement

Turning partner support into self-service

Partner programs struggle with adoption more than tools. I design onboarding, in-app guidance, and rollouts that change behavior.

I cut supplier onboarding call time 60%, and coordinated a promotion program that suppliers representing 96.8% of sales joined.

Best fit: marketplaces and B2B platforms with heavy partner support volume.
Conversion diagnosis

Finding the leak before a redesign

When conversion drops, the fix is often smaller than a redesign. I use A/B tests, funnels, heatmaps, and session recordings to find it.

Recent results: 62% fewer dead-end searches, sign-in removed from order tracking, and sale badges that doubled holiday sales.

Best fit: teams with traffic and a drop they can't explain.
Ways of working

Three ways to bring me in

Diagnostic

A short engagement that ends with findings and a phased plan. The lowest-risk way to start.

Embedded

Part-time product leadership, usually a couple of days a week, working alongside your team.

Advisory

Lighter-touch guidance for teams that have the people but want a second opinion on hard calls.

Have a problem that fits?

Start with a short conversation about what you're dealing with. No pitch.

Contact

Let's talk.

I'm open to Senior and Principal Product Manager roles, especially where the work has real stakes, and to fractional or advisory work.