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:
" Tying insights directly into team backlogs or goals can transform research from information to active stakeholder in decisions. "
Finding More Inroads into Research Impact
February 20, 2026
" Researchers are shy about sharing work because they worry about being judged — peer and management support help. "
ResearchOps AMA with Kate Towsey & Jake Burghardt
October 16, 2025
" Omni ops might be 80% standardized processes and 20% function-specific to keep necessary flexibility. "
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
" Too often research lives in silos, making it hard to connect the dots across streams. "
Stop wasting research: Unlock more value from research insights
June 24, 2025
