Resume & Portfolio

My experience, role by role, paired with the skills I used for each plus examples of some of my work, from client case studies to apps I’ve built.

Leslie Neal

Senior leader with expertise in hands-on product management and creating the ways of working that transform how teams build and ship digital products. I have extensive experience across Fortune 50 enterprises, SaaS companies, and startups.

I’ve built marketing technology platforms that drove $40M in revenue, directed product strategy across 70+ teams, and scaled new teams from 0-1.

I’m equal parts product, technical, and domain expert, which means I see the whole problem: what the business needs, what the technology can actually do, and what it takes for people to adopt the result.

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Core Competencies

Experience

AKQA

Apr 2026 – Present

Freelance Product Lead

  • Drive UX decisions, define design requirements, prioritize and approve work, and translate final designs into detailed engineering requirements, annotations, and acceptance criteria
  • Review solution architecture during technical discovery, validating API payloads directly to identify and resolve gaps between system-of-record data, BFF services, and design requirements
  • Represent product in engineering standups, resolve open questions, and advise client stakeholders on trade-offs and backlog priorities for future releases
  • Create and manage the backlog, prepare future-state Figma designs and requirements, and conduct visual QA of the build

Workable Strategy

Jan 2023 – Apr 2026

Founder | Product Consultant

  • Served as consulting partner to a multi-brand QSR company; transformed product operations, trained product managers, and devised new communication frameworks
  • Defined cross-functional digital measurement capabilities, shifting the digital team from activity tracking to outcome-based measurement — read the case study
  • Aligned product leaders at a Fortune 50 retailer to achieve digital transformation goals by establishing roadmap strategy, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional operating models
  • Designed and implemented a custom discovery and development framework and product operations playbook for a large, complex enterprise — read the case study
  • Integrated AI across all consulting workflows, including synthesis of stakeholder interviews, delivering the output of a three-person team

The Home Depot

Jun 2021 – Dec 2022

Director, Product Strategy & Operations Feb 2022 – Dec 2022

Sr. Manager, Product Strategy & Operations Jun 2021 – Feb 2022

70+ product teams $10M capital reallocated +4% portfolio funding +30% productivity
  • Directed product portfolio strategy across 70+ product teams, defining, naming, and connecting the work into one organizational direction, aligning digital initiatives to corporate goals and securing record-breaking online sales
  • Created a unified 5-year roadmap, reallocating $10M of capital to higher-impact initiatives by identifying redundancy and improving cross-functional alignment
  • Managed capital investment and resource allocation, and expanded portfolio funding by 4% through performance-focused annual planning and ROI determination
  • Served on the product leadership team and as chief of staff to the Head of Product, reviewing and approving major initiatives, acting as proxy, and leading executive communications, quarterly business reviews, and board presentations
  • Established and scaled a new product strategy and operations team to oversee product operations and portfolio roadmap prioritization, increasing productivity by 30%
  • Developed frameworks for OKRs, value-based prioritization, measurement, and storytelling across product teams
  • Led a product special project engaging an external design agency to create personalized, omnichannel solutions for the connected digital and in-store experience; managed the engagement end to end, conducted in-store research, and integrated the resulting concepts into product team roadmaps, increasing customer engagement by 5%

The Home Depot

Nov 2019 – Jun 2021

Sr. Manager, Product Management – Marketing Technology

$40M+ revenue increase +115% funding secured 10+ platform teams
  • Defined MarTech strategy and aligned 20+ marketing leaders on personalization roadmap for CMS, CDP, and campaign systems to support omnichannel retail experiences, securing a 115% increase in funding
  • Designed MarTech team structure and led strategic hiring of 6 product managers to meet stakeholder needs and technology requirements
  • Delivered $40M+ revenue increase through end-to-end product leadership of 10+ enterprise platform teams managing product content, digital assets, and customer data
  • Orchestrated build vs. buy evaluation and managed RFP processes for DAM, CDP, CMS, and Campaign Management tools and managed ongoing partner relationships

Selected Work

A portfolio of case studies from client engagements I’ve led and products I’ve designed and built.

Case Study

From Fragmented Dashboards to a Unified Measurement Framework

Helped a digital team shift from activity tracking to outcome-based measurement that drives strategic decisions.

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Case Study

Building a Shared Operating Model

Coached a marketing ops team to adopt product thinking, moving from reactive firefighting to strategic partnership.

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App

Temporize™

A time management and productivity app designed to help people focus on what matters most.

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App

StoryFlow

Helps product managers turn data and decisions into compelling narratives for any audience.

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