Former Director, Product Management
Ritchie Bros
Kara Reinsel is a product management leader with 15+ years building and scaling products at the intersection of vision and execution.
Kara has led SaaS, PaaS, and large-scale platform initiatives across the private and public sectors—including at Veracode, Ritchie Bros., and within government at 18F, cloud.gov, and Kessel Run/United States Air Force.
Known for turning complexity into clarity, Kara has guided teams through critical platform rebuilds, legacy system modernizations, and product launches that secured multimillion-dollar contracts and dramatically improved user adoption.
Whether navigating high-stakes multi-stakeholder environments or building collaborative cultures where product and engineering teams thrive, Kara brings a focus on solving real-world problems and delivering measurable impact. A passionate mentor to emerging product leaders, Kara believes the best products come from empowered teams and relentless user focus.
Kara has her MBA from the F.W. Olin School of Business at Babson College and her BA from Hood College.