Kelly Stewart Danner
I've served in this role since 2010 under different names (typically Director / VP of Ops). I'm currently serving in it for a Techstars 2020 ecomm company. I've been at 4 tech startups in NYC and SF – this is a role/scope that I'm very familiar with. I have 3.5 years of true, top-level Leadership experience.
CoS Start Date
Sep 18, 2017
Current Industry
Ecommerce
Company Size
11-50
Experience
Pro Tip
Communication guidelines are absolutely critical to efficiency and avoiding burnout.
Gives
Back-office operations, all things People Ops, OKR/KPI management, corporate real estate.
Asks
It's been so helpful to learn and ask about new tools or services.
Superpowers
- Effective communication
- Managing expectations
Accomplishments
'- Dug a small company out of the red in the depths of the last recession through basic (but hard) operating principles. Made business profitable again. The business acquired within a year.
- Became a self-taught expert in corporate real estate: found a new 50k sq ft HQ for our company and designed and built it out from a raw space in 6 months (highly complex project + team mgmt).
- Opened 3 retail stores in 2 years on shoestring budgets. Had never overseen Retail before.
