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:
" Impact tracking as a community exercise builds a collective sense of research value and inspires adoption across teams. "
Finding More Inroads into Research Impact
February 20, 2026
" We don’t have to try and do it all at once — build prioritized pillars of knowledge by business focus. "
ResearchOps AMA with Kate Towsey & Jake Burghardt
October 16, 2025
" The COO isn’t paying attention to ops silos—COOs focus on longer term strategic enablement beyond today’s operational teams. "
All the Ops: Successful cross-functional collaboration
September 10, 2025
" Prioritizing top insights prevents stakeholders from getting lost in a sea of data. "
Stop wasting research: Create new value with insight summaries
July 9, 2025
" AI can support research operations but shouldn’t replace human judgment or integrated workflows. "
Stop wasting research: Unlock more value from research insights
June 24, 2025
