Jake Burghardt
Consultant and Writer, Integrating Research
Jake Burghardt is a consultant, author, and speaker at IntegratingResearch.com. His mission is to shift expectations in the tech industry so that most every important product roadmap, prioritization, and design decision is grounded in research about people and real-world systems.
Jake helps organizations drive product value, outcomes, and quality by:
- Extracting more impact from existing research assets
- Achieving a useful mix of new research in collaborative communities of practice
- Integrating insights into crucial product decisions
Jake has 20+ years of experience in product research, vision, planning, design, and experimentation. Previously, he owned insightactivation initiatives in Amazon’s Retail and Alexa divisions. Before working within research communities, Jake consulted on products in a range of domains, including “new space” engineering, power plant operation, cockpit avionics, genetics instrumentation, creative production, and financial trading.
Rosenverse talks by Jake:
" Operations is a verb. You’ve always been operating — the role just invites you to do it better. "
ResearchOps AMA with Kate Towsey & Jake Burghardt
October 16, 2025
" Different ops functions have different incentives; aligning those incentives could make leaps and bounds in collaboration. "
All the Ops: Successful cross-functional collaboration
September 10, 2025
" Insight is a claim supported by customer evidence with implications for product development. "
Stop wasting research: Create new value with insight summaries
July 9, 2025
" Building a research activation initiative is a marathon, not a sprint, requiring ongoing adaptation. "
Stop wasting research: Unlock more value from research insights
June 24, 2025
