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:
" Research waste is valuable customer insight that was unseen, ignored, or unintentionally left out of planning. "
Finding More Inroads into Research Impact
February 20, 2026
" I don’t believe any group collaboratively keeps taxonomy tidy — you need a dedicated librarian. "
ResearchOps AMA with Kate Towsey & Jake Burghardt
October 16, 2025
" If you don’t operationalize content early, you end up with last minute crunches breaking the design. "
All the Ops: Successful cross-functional collaboration
September 10, 2025
" Culture change is the hardest part; build the muscle for sharing and collaboration early. "
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
