Product advising & PM development
I help startup product leaders develop their people and work through challenging product decisions. From using AI effectively and presenting with confidence to growing as a PM and tackling complex products, I bring experienced support without adding another full-time management role.
Four ways I can help
I'm Ben Breuner, a former Group Product Manager with over ten years of product experience at large tech companies like Walmart e-commerce and Delivery Hero.
About
My product career took me from Walmart e-commerce in Silicon Valley to Delivery Hero in Berlin. At Delivery Hero, I grew my portfolio from hands-on product ownership into a remit that included managing PMs and helping them take ownership themselves.
I now own and manage three small e-commerce businesses. That keeps me close to the choices business owners make about customers, priorities, and where to spend their time.
Ben's most admirable quality is his compassion and charisma within a team.
How I help
You want to give your PMs thoughtful feedback, help them grow, and be a sounding board for difficult decisions. Finding the time alongside your own responsibilities isn't always easy.
I can take on a focused part of that work, alongside you and your PMs.
Apply AI to real product work: build a quick prototype, explore design options, or work through an analysis.
I've shipped multiple products end-to-end with AI agents as my sole implementation support. Drawing on that experience to help teams deliver better products faster, I help PMs decide where AI is useful, assess its output, and build approaches they can keep using.
Find the story in your work, make a persuasive case, and deliver it clearly.
Drawing on my university training as a journalist, I've developed my own storytelling frameworks for PMs and spoken about effective PM storytelling at conferences including the Product Management Festival in Zurich. We can use those frameworks to sharpen a real presentation, rehearse the delivery, and prepare for difficult questions.
Get an experienced perspective on your strengths, development areas, and next step.
I've coached and mentored junior through senior PMs, helping them advance their careers, sharpen their skills, and navigate complex stakeholder environments. Together, we turn career goals and feedback into practical steps you can take in your current role.
Bring a complicated workflow, a difficult tradeoff, or a product direction that needs sharpening.
I help you clarify the problem, weigh the options, and decide what to test next. At Delivery Hero, I managed key products for restaurant owners, serving over one million users across 75+ countries in a highly complex, fiercely competitive global environment.
Throughout that time I have been consistently impressed by his outstanding product management abilities, strong cross-functional team leadership, and unwavering dedication to customer satisfaction.
Selected work
Two products I shaped inside large companies, Delivery Hero and Walmart, and one I rebuilt for my own business, InMovement. Each shows the before, the after, and the results.
I owned Performance reporting hands-on, then guided the PMs who took it further as it became a richer business performance experience.
Non-commission revenue; internal estimate informed by A/B testing, 2025.
From about 55% to 84% adoption, April 2023–January 2026.
A list of separate reports and limited reporting views.
A performance overview bringing key figures, charts, and comparisons together.
What sets Ben apart is his profound user empathy and his unwavering focus on solving the right user problems.
We can start with a specific need or agree a period of support across your team.
Focused support around a PM's development goals and day-to-day challenges. Bring career questions, feedback to work through, or a skill to practice, and we'll agree a useful starting point.
Develop a shared skill through real work. A session might focus on applying AI to a product task, presenting a recommendation, or working through a difficult product decision together.
An experienced partner for a specific product challenge. We examine the problem and available evidence, work through the tradeoffs, and identify practical next steps with your PMs.
Contact
Tell me what your PMs are working toward, where they need support, or which product problem could use another perspective. We'll find a useful place to start.
Let's talk about your teambenbreuner@gmail.comBen is without hesitation one of the best product managers I have worked with.
