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DaveGauntley.
Director @ retcond.uk · Principal Product Manager @ Herd Consulting
Specialist in Product Management, Agile Transformation, product delivery, and solving the problems behind the problems. Based in Harrogate/Leeds.
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Appearances
Principal Product Manager
Lead for Herd's product management practice — guiding strategic accounts, developing the product team, and shaping the external voice on product thinking. Client engagements focused on discovery and delivery, pragmatic experimentation, and diagnosing systemic blockers.
Senior Product & Delivery Manager
Supporting the CPO and delivery function across a SaaS Transformation platform and DevOps platform. Reviewing tech stacks, roadmapping improvements, and coaching senior leadership.
UK Senior Strategist
Enterprise digital transformation for IFS, Irwin Mitchell, and KFSHRC — Sitecore XP to XM Cloud migrations, information architecture workshops, and taxonomy frameworks.
Squad Lead — Delivery & Product Principal
Joined at 450 people, helped scale to 2,000+ across multiple markets. Leeds Senior Leadership Team; line managed ~12 developers, PMs, BAs, and UX designers.
Leeds Building Society — Agile Transformationalist (Jun–Dec 2023)
Redesigned discovery pipelines, improved WoW maturity, coached leadership toward unified agile methodologies across a 100-person digital division.
Lloyds Banking Group — Delivery Lead (Jun 2022–May 2023)
Led a mixed squad delivering a new mortgages tool for colleague and client use.
Sky — Senior Scrum Master (Apr 2021–Feb 2022)
Delivered Sky Glass TriplePlay web onboarding. Built two high-functioning teams of 10–14; applied LEAN to reduce waste and improve release timings.
Agile Delivery Lead
Led six squads, 80+ people across three sites. Drove data strategy, defined ways of working, and strengthened SLT engagement.
Senior Business Analyst
Led the only workstream delivering changes to live. GDPR Online, Disengaged Clients Data Project, WebSeries. Coached the analyst team in agile delivery.
Business Analyst
Sole Business BA on a multimillion-pound Wealth International programme, managing stakeholders from executives to SMEs across online banking and wealth restructuring projects.
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