Ben Echols
Product leader based in SF. I like understanding complex systems and scaling products for people who build stuff.
User manual
How I like to work and communicate
How I got into PM
A story about getting lucky, several times
Experience
Temporal
Apr 2025–Present
Director of Product, Temporal Cloud
Lamini
May–Dec 2025
Head of Product
Nemo
Oct 2022–May 2024
Co-founder and CEO
Confluent
Aug 2018–Oct 2022
Confluent Cloud
Group Product Manager
Apr 2021–Jun 2022
Senior Product Manager
Feb 2019–Apr 2021
Product Manager
Aug 2018–Feb 2019
HouseCanary
Jun 2017–Aug 2018
Data and Analytics · Platform, APIs, and integrations
Senior Product Manager
Jun 2017–Jun 2018
Atlassian
Jan 2016–May 2017
Senior Product Manager, Bitbucket Cloud
Originate
Jun 2014–Jan 2016
Product Manager
Jun 2014–Jun 2015
Location Labs
Jun 2012–Jun 2014
Product Manager
Forrester Research
Oct 2009–Mar 2012
Senior Research Associate
Oct 2009–Jun 2010
Williams College
2003–2007
BA in Philosophy + Cognitive Science concentration