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Hi I'm Vaelyn,
AI Product Consultant
& Business Strategist

eCommerce & Retail CPG · Seattle, WA

Career Highlights

  • ·Negotiated vendor contracts that delivered a 35% YoY category margin increase and 30% increase in vendor-funded marketing spend.
  • ·Led sales analysis, GTM strategy, and product innovation for a $200M Starbucks & Nestlé portfolio across 30 e-commerce, retail, food, club, and value channels.
  • ·Launched Starbucks Crema Collection (Feb 2025), Starbucks VIA packaging rebrand, & Seattle's Best Coffee 5-year product innovation pipeline and rebrand.
Vaelyn Hargrave
Starbucks
Nestlé
Seattle's Best Coffee
PCA Skin
Skin Better Science
jane iredale
Beecher's Handmade Cheese
Trident Seafoods
Ferndale Market

Transforming brands.

From category strategy to full-funnel product commercialization. I define, launch, and scale ideas that unlock durable, repeatable revenue.

Work With Me

About

I Build, Innovate,
& Execute
A Holistic Approach.

In my previous role with Starbucks and Nestle Coffee Partners I owned cross-functional stakeholder communication and executive-level reporting for my owned accounts, leading commercialization from concept to launch. I continue to oversee product management and go-to-market process at eRabbit, where I specialize in AI business strategy and consulting. I translate brand insights into AI-enabled technical builds and LLM platform solutions that connect business data and project management across R&D, sales, brand, finance, demand, and supply teams in retail and eCommerce. I'm defining our product roadmap through iterative build, demo, and feedback cycles to deliver AI integration for business software and project management.

What I Bring
  • AI & Development: LLMs, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Figma, Shopify, Docker, CI/CD.
  • Sales Management & P&L: Executive Presentations, Assortment & Line Reviews, Trade Spend, Cost & Term Negotiation.
  • Product & Program Management: Agile / Scrum, Kanban, Backlog/Sprint Planning, Launch Readiness, Milestone Tracking, Risk Mitigation and Tradeoffs.
  • Brand & Product Development: R&D, campaign lifecycle management, Rebranding, Launch.
  • Business Data Analysis & Customer Analysis: SQL, POS, Panel, and Syndicated Data (Circana/IRI, Stackline, and PowerBI).
  • Inventory Management: demand and supply planning, capacity planning, days of supply, sell-through rate.

Recent Work

Agentic Visualization
Dashboard

Developed & Designed by Vaelyn

Agent-V

Launching
Fall 2026

  • AI Team Integration — Agent-V automates cross-functional systems for people, projects, and businesses.
  • Project Automation — define objectives, resources, timelines, assignments, and execution roadmap.
  • Simple & Versatile — A lightweight React app with agent swarm and persistent session history.
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Selected Work

Starbucks Crema
Collection

Oversaw cross-functional stakeholder communication for Starbucks Crema Collection - from innovation brief through final shelf placement across eCommerce, Mass Retail, Food, and Club Channels.

$21M

Portfolio

20%

Revenue Beat

Seattle's Best
Coffee

Conducted monthly and weekly executive level business reviews, assortment discussions, and line reviews utilizing data to provide actionable insights, growth opportunities, and monitor merchant supply & demand metrics across eCommerce, Food, Mass Retail, Club, and Value channels.

$130M

Total SBC Portfolio

20+

Channels

Seattle's Best Light Roast
Seattle's Best new packaging

5 Year Innovation
Pipeline

Launched Best Coffee packaging rebrand and new products like "lighthouse" and two flavor innovations "Sea Salt Toffee" and "Campfire S'mores." Implemented dashboard which reduced weekly reporting time by 35% and overstock/waste inventory by an average of 8%.

35%

Reduction in Reporting Time

8%

Overstock Reduction

Instant done
right.

Managed Starbucks Premium Instant portfolio of VIA® & Crema® Leading multi-year sales analysis, go-to-market strategy, and packaging rebrand across eCommerce, Food, Mass Retail, Club, and Value channels.

$60M

Starbucks Portfolio

15+

Channels

Starbucks VIA

7+ Years Building Brands

2025 – Present
Seattle, WA
eRabbitLead Product Manager
Product Strategy & AI Integration
2024 – 2025
Seattle, WA
Starbucks & Nestlé Coffee PartnersProgram Analyst
GTM Strategy & Business Analytics
2023 – 2024
Seattle, WA
Skin AddictionDirector of Category Management
2021 – 2023
Seattle, WA
Crowd CowCategory Manager
Sales Management & Product Development
2021
Seattle, WA
ZulilyBuyer
Category & Account Management

Education

Bellevue, WA
Entrepreneurship and Product Development Product Development and Innovation Bellevue College
Spokane, WA
Marketing and Design Spokane Falls Community College
Duvall, WA
Design and Branding School of Art and Innovation