About Kris

Hello! I'm a Northeast-based design strategist and product manager. I’m most effective when I’m building programs/projects/products to advance climate resilience, as part of a tight-knit, committed organization whose mission I share.

CURRENTLY:

I’m working as a Software Product Manager at Indigo Ag, a Boston-based Series G startup in ag tech, building economic incentives for regenerative agriculture. I focus on our Carbon by Indigo product, particularly for our enterprise partnerships. Carbon by Indigo enables farmers to earn income for adopting sustainable practices that lead to the production of high-quality, registry-issued carbon credits. These best-in-class carbon credits have been purchased by corporations like JP Morgan Chase, The North Face, Barclays & Ralph Lauren to achieve their climate action goals by complementing their own emission reduction steps (more here).

As a PM at Indigo, I guide agile software development with engineering squads to identify critical program requirements of new tools and, ultimately, shape the short and long-term vision for our products. With primary product ownership responsibilities for Sustainability Partnerships (roadmap, user stories, prioritization, stakeholder buy-in), I help define the financial impact of delivering on that vision while maintaining clear communication with internal and external cross-team collaborators.

Software while farming isn’t easy: A key component in prioritizing and defining my work is keeping the voice of the customer as top of mind as possible.

BEFORE: 

As JUMP Bikes’ first one-person urban planning team, I cross-functionally managed all aspects of e-mobility launches, from complex infrastructure roll-outs to external policy collaborations to designing interactive workshops in historically disadvantaged communities.

When Uber acquired JUMP in May 2018, I was asked to scale my work and vision to expand our strategy around the world. I hired a diverse team, and I leveraged my communication strengths to execute with both technical and non-technical peers at Uber in the nuanced three-sided marketplace of shared e-mobility. I reported to Uber’s Head of Product for New Mobility, directly contributing to corporate strategy, new product development, and financial planning to drive decision-making for executive leadership. I know driving environmental change takes deep relationship building and ingenuity: convincing UberX users to dramatically change their ingrained commute patterns and hop on an electric bicycle for the first time took grit and perseverance. In user surveys, over half of our UberX riders in major cities like Paris shared they replaced a car trip with an e-bike trip, eliminating their tailpipe emissions.

Prior to JUMP, my landscape and architectural design experience and my work at the Chicago Park District taught me how to build tactical interventions for broader ecological and cultural impact. After a native prairie habitat restoration on Lake Michigan, my design spurred healthy behavioral changes, surging active physical recreation.

SIDE HUSTLES:  I’m a senior landscape designer at Verdant View, a boutique landscape studio in the Hudson Valley. I love volunteering at New Lab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to talk to local teenagers about S.T.E.A.M. careers. I'm also a three-time presenter and volunteer at PechaKucha New York.

OLD NEWS: Biked down the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Planning/Design Assistant at the Chicago Park District. Community Designer at Latent Design, a progressive architecture firm.  Freelance writer for Architect's Newspaper. Master in Architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Thesis exhibition = Tend Cycle System). Art and architecture critic in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Curatorial intern at the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian.

Crossing disciplines has always anchored my intellectual pursuits. I earned a BA from Bates College in Lewiston, ME, where I studied both Art and Economics. The Northeast grounds my material sensibilities. When I'm not working, I'm in the woods with rescue dog in Vermont or bike-touring just about anywhere.

Let's chat: kemoreau [at] gmail [dot] com