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Esme Lutz

Critic · DISC type C
Head of Product at Benepass
📍 Denver, Colorado, United States

Esme Lutz is the Head of Product at Benepass, leveraging extensive experience from nearly eight years at Google where she launched over 50 products. An MBA graduate from UC Berkeleys Haas School of Business, she excels in turning ideas into production-quality software by leading and empowering fast-moving teams.

Esme has a strong interest in social impact, demonstrated by her work creating a photographic documentary for a non-profit in India that supports womens employment. This passion for community service was also recognized with a "Beyond Yourself Fellow" award during her MBA studies.

During a college internship in India, she created a photographic documentary to help a non-profit gain UNESCO recognition.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Head of Product
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Denver, Colorado, United States
Personality Overview

How Esme shows up

Critic
Negotiator
Information Seeker

Unless the value is proven by data, they are unlikely to value fancy features. They prefer to analyze logically and value objective facts over emotions. It is very likely that they will negotiate pricing or other important terms.

Priorities

Topics Esme cares about

High-Impact Startups
She left Google for a startup environment, stating she enjoys the significant impact of launching new things from a blank page, rather than risk-averse incrementalism.
Empowering Product Teams
Believes in enabling, not bottlenecking, decisions and wants to empower the person closest to an issue to implement solutions and ship them quickly.
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Head of Product
Benepass
3-2022 - 3-2024
Director of Product
Benepass
5-2018 - 3-2022
Program / Product Manager
Google
5-2017 - 4-2018
Program Manager
Google
6-2015 - 4-2017
Product Operations Lead
Google
In the press

Media appearances

Esme Lutz – Team Member Profile. Featured in Benepass Official Website
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Meet Our Product Team: A Q&A With Esme Lutz, Director of Product. Featured in Benepass Blog
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Education
2018 - 2021
Master of Business Administration - MBA
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Middlebury College
- High School
The Hotchkiss School
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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