Abby Reimer

I’m a product, UX and operations leader with a background in journalism. As a founding partner at The Composition Collective, I work with mission-driven teams to design and build positive products with tangible impact. Recently, I've worked with the American Journalism Project, NC Local, Unido and a few pre-launch startups in the news space. I can work with clients as a fractional product leader or pull together a project team of designers, technologists and strategists from The Collective. You can read a little bit more about my approach to product here.

My specialties:

• Moving from big, ambiguous problems to pragmatic, creative solutions
• Designing and implementing systems and workflows that help diverse, interdisciplinary teams do their best work
• Building impactful products under real time, money and tech constraints -Translating quantitative and qualitative data into clear product direction -Designing and facilitating in-person experiences, from design sprints to live storytelling events

Like many product people, my career path has been a bit eclectic. I got my start as a journalist before founding Kinethics, an anti-corruption compliance training startup. I later returned to news at McClatchy, where I led design thinking and internal accelerator programs before moving into product. Most recently, I was a product strategy director at Huge, a global design and technology company. Ultimately, I’m drawn to work where the constraints are real and the stakes are high.