
I’m a Product Lead at Nike’s digital innovation lab and am a course facilitator and coach at the Stanford Graduate School of Business LEAD program.
Resume
I’ve been lucky to have led some incredibly talented teams at companies doing great work. The themes that have driven my most meaningful work have been around leveraging technology to create a sense of shared identity, delivering work for people who are underserved or underrepresented, and working on problems with high complexity and opportunity.
Experience
Nike
Lead Product Manager - Valiant Labs
2023 to present
Senior Product Manager - Valiant Labs
2022 to 2023
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Course Facilitator and Coach
2020 to present
adidas
Senior Product Owner
2017 to 2021
Sweetpea Bicycles
Co-founder
2005 to 2023
Evelyn & Bobbie
Digital Experience Director
2016 to 2017
Nike
Technical Product Owner
2016 to 2016
R/GA
Senior Producer - Nike
2014 to 2015
Cozy
Director of Marketing
2013 to 2013
Walmart Labs
Mobile Project Manager
2012 to 2013
Small Society (acquired by Walmart Labs)
Mobile Project Manager
2010 to 2012
Education
Certificate in Corporate Innovation
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Completing in fall 2020
Certificate in Disruptive Strategy
Harvard Business School Online Completed 2019
BA English
Grinnell College
Volunteer Experience
Mentor
Built Oregon
2019 to present
Board Member
The Street Trust
2008 to 2014
Founder
Oregon Manifest
2008 to 2009

Five things you should know about me.
I am a strategist. Strategy is plan for creating value and capturing value. It helps teams and individuals take cohesive actions, and it’s also one of the hardest things to get right. What I bring to this process is creativity, non-consensus thinking, and the ability to clearly articulate what the game plan is.
I love to coach others. Over the course of my career, I have mentored people from founders and CEOs to individual contributors. In 2020, I was selected as one of just 30 adidas employees globally to be a mentor in the Close the Gap program supporting BIPOC social ventures. I also work with founders as a mentor for the BUILT OREGON and PIE accelerator programs.
I value learning. I feel restless if I’m not learning new things. Over the last two years, I have taken courses in strategy, finance, business model analysis and design, storytelling, organizational design, critical and analytical thinking, power, and change management.
I get things done. Having spent a decade in project management, I know how to build a team, how to handle a crisis, and how to deliver on time.
I like solving complex problems. I love wrestling with complex problems to find that elegant multifaceted solution. Solutions can take minutes or years, but I love that moment of discovery.
Nice things people have said about me.
“The great things about working with Austin Ramsland are his abilities to seamlessly collaborate with creative teams, scope work with accuracy, think like a designer himself, lighten intense situations, know everybody in the room, keep things moving, and organize big moving pieces through complex hills and valleys through to completion, to mention a few. ”
“Austin and I worked together at Nike for about two years, and during that time I found him to be very versatile, responsive, personable, witty, and forward-thinking. On a number of occasions, Austin introduced new ideas, concepts, or project management techniques that ultimately made the team more efficient. Austin is really the “glue” that binds multiple aspects of a product together, and he transitions seamlessly between UI/UX, development, creative, and product stakeholders.”
“Austin looks at the work and client partnerships through a highly tuned strategic and humanistic lens.”
“Austin is an excellent leader who knows how to motivate the team. He knows when to leave the people alone to focus on their work and when to and to step in to facilitate communication. ”
“Austin will come to your meeting, articulate your vision with a spot-on anecdote, add layers of context, introduce you to to someone important, and then pedal away on your dream bike... and still make you want to be his friend. As a BTA board member and adviser to the communications and marketing committee, Austin’s pointed and strategic thinking and gentle personality helped craft the narrative of bicycle advocacy in Portland.”