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C.J. Burns

AI product executive · platform architect · agentic builder

I turn complex marketplace, data, and delivery problems into products—and operating systems—that create measurable value.

Across 11 years in creator commerce, I grew from hands-on product architect to executive portfolio leader. I have helped shape a platform serving 250K+ creators and 5K+ brands, with more than $30B in attributed sales, while building leaders, product systems, and cross-functional teams that can keep learning after launch.

  • Product leadership: strategy, organizational design, coaching, and measurable accountability.
  • Agentic systems: explicit permissions, evaluations, quality floors, human checkpoints, and cost/latency/quality trade-offs.
  • Platforms and marketplaces: creator commerce, monetization, data products, feedback loops, and multi-sided customer journeys.
  • From ambiguity to execution: a six-stage AI-enabled development system that reduced Ideation-to-Development-start time from eight weeks to four for initiatives not requiring new user research.

Portfolio · Resume · Featured case study · Public AI skills · LinkedIn

Featured work

  • Shopify-enabled Creator Gifting — I turned a manual product-seeding bottleneck into a scalable commerce workflow that broadened creator access and helped brands use more allocated inventory without adding proportional coordination. Creators selected from brand-approved products, Shopify handled gift-tagged orders through the brand's normal fulfillment process, and brands kept control of creator fit, inventory, economics, and performance. A 3-week feasibility integration built with a staff engineer and tested with 5 enterprise brands reduced active brand-team handling time by approximately 95% per collaboration and supported approximately 10x program scale.
  • Executive product portfolio — leadership approach, selected outcomes, case studies, writing, and public-safe product playbooks.
  • Handy Dandy AI Skills — reusable agent operating contracts for strategy, discovery, analytics, decision-making, and execution.

What I am exploring

AI-centric Principal Product Manager, Director of Product, VP Product, and Head of Product roles where I can combine executive judgment with a meaningful player-coach mandate—especially across agentic products, marketplaces, data platforms, commerce, energy, defense or drone technology, and public-service platforms.

I am based in Traverse City, Michigan, and open to remote, hybrid, and relocation discussions for the right opportunity.

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  1. Portfolio Portfolio Public

    Executive product portfolio: AI systems, marketplaces, leadership, case studies, writing, and public-safe playbooks.

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  2. handy-dandy-ai-skills handy-dandy-ai-skills Public

    Reusable AI skills for product strategy, discovery, analytics, decisions, and operational execution.

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