Summary
Kayla Sommer is a Senior Product Manager with 11 years of experience translating UX, engineering, and business needs into B2B SaaS platform and decisioning products across startups and scale-ups. At Tiimely she progressed from Associate PM to Senior PM, shaping platform strategy and product design while drawing on a background in front-end development and UX design. She specializes in improving notoriously painful business software by blending user-centered design, agile practices, and practical engineering sensibilities. Based in Adelaide, she pairs a Product Management certification and software development training with a BFA in painting, bringing a creative eye to pragmatic product solutions. Outside work she mentors, reads voraciously, and stays sharp through gaming, reflecting a habit of learning that informs her product intuition.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at Adelaide University
Software Development, Software Development at Nashville Software School
Product Management Certification, Product Management Certification at Product School
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at Delta State University
Entrepreneurship - Preflight, Entrepreneurship - Preflight at Nashville Entrepreneur Center
German