Kalli Prins
New York Metro Area (Open to Relocation) · kalliprins@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/kalliprins
Growth leader with 18 years of experience spanning consumer, technology, digital health, and recurring-revenue businesses.
Brings creative thinking and analytical depth to understanding customer behavior, recognizing patterns, and identifying what is really constraining growth. Leads across the full customer journey, from positioning and go-to-market through customer experience, monetization, retention, and expansion, and builds the strategies, systems, and cross-functional teams that turn those insights into sustainable growth.
Core Competencies
Career Highlights
Female Founder Collective
Redesigned growth and the member experience for Female Founder Collective, generating $295K+ in new revenue while retaining $270K+ in recurring revenue across memberships, cohorts, and founder programs.
Her Workplace
Scaled Her Workplace from $2K to $21K MRR and $250K+ ARR in under 12 months, transforming a physical coworking business into an AI-powered career platform and building the customer journey from acquisition through retention.
embark.live
Co-founded and scaled embark.live to 2,500+ subscribers and $250K in partnership revenue, building the go-to-market strategy, monetization model, customer experience, and cross-functional team from the ground up.
Maker's Row
Restructured Maker's Row's 350K+ user marketplace for growth, driving 65% signup growth and $600K in revenue growth while launching a premium subscription that increased LTV 29%.
Professional Experience
Vice President of Growth · Female Founder Collective
New York, NY (Remote) · Dec 2025–Present
Lead growth and revenue strategy across Female Founder Collective, with ownership spanning acquisition, conversion, onboarding, engagement, retention, and monetization. Report directly to the CEO and lead cross-functional growth initiatives across revenue operations, community, content, and member experience.
- Generated $295K+ in new revenue while retaining $270K+ in recurring revenue across memberships, cohorts, and founder programs by redesigning the member journey and strengthening acquisition, lifecycle, and revenue infrastructure.
- Reduced refunds 76% YoY, preserving ~$53K in revenue, while increasing member engagement 103% YoY through improvements to onboarding, lifecycle strategy, community programming, and the member experience.
- Increased completed applications 220% YoY and revenue per enrollment 73.6% by identifying conversion barriers and connecting the experience across application, enrollment, email, landing pages, and checkout.
Growth & Community · Allara Health
New York, NY · Mar 2024–Apr 2025 (Fractional)
Supported growth and patient experience for a digital women's healthcare platform, translating firsthand insights from 1,000+ patient interactions into improvements across the customer journey.
- Achieved a 68% conversion rate by identifying and reducing barriers across enrollment, insurance, treatment, and care decisions.
- Translated patterns across 1,000+ patient interactions into actionable customer insights, informing improvements to onboarding, messaging, and the enrollment experience.
Vice President of Growth & Experience · Her Workplace
New York, NY (Hybrid) · Oct 2023–Oct 2025
Led the transformation of Her Workplace from a physical coworking business into an AI-powered career development platform, shaping growth strategy, customer experience, go-to-market, and new revenue opportunities.
- Scaled MRR from $2K to $21K and surpassed $250K ARR in under 12 months by redesigning the customer journey across acquisition, onboarding, engagement, and retention.
- Created and launched new mentorship, coaching, and cohort experiences featuring leaders from Starbucks, Citi, L'Oréal, and Rebecca Minkoff, growing paid membership to 500+, expanding digital reach to 50K+, and extending the brand across four cities.
- Established the revenue and lifecycle infrastructure, connecting acquisition, CRM, onboarding, engagement, and recurring revenue into a more cohesive member experience.
Co-Founder, Vice President of Operations · embark.live
Brooklyn, NY (Remote) · Jun 2019–Mar 2023
Co-founded and built a live-streaming platform from concept to revenue, with full P&L ownership across product, customer experience, go-to-market, partnerships, and operations from launch through scale.
- Grew the platform to 2,500+ subscribers, $20K MRR, and $250K in partnership revenue by evolving the product around user behavior and developing new channels for growth and monetization.
- Built and led a 12-person cross-functional team across marketing, product, engineering, analytics, design, community, and customer success, achieving 90% team retention while establishing the systems and ways of working needed to scale.
- Increased user engagement 25% by introducing onboarding, programming, and feedback loops that surfaced changing user needs and informed ongoing product and experience improvements.
Vice President of Operations · Maker's Row
Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid) · Oct 2018–Mar 2023
Led the restructuring of a 350K+ user marketplace with full P&L ownership, overseeing growth, product, revenue, customer experience, and operations to strengthen the business and expand recurring revenue.
- Drove a 65% increase in signups, 28% MRR growth, and $600K in revenue growth by expanding distribution, strengthening community activation, and evolving the platform experience around changing customer needs.
- Launched a new premium subscription from concept to market, shaping the offering and value proposition to increase LTV 29% and generate $60K in profit within five months.
- Reorganized cross-functional teams and workflows, reducing turnover 25% and accelerating product delivery 25% while strengthening collaboration across product, marketing, and customer success.
Early Career
Founder, CEO · Songbird Studio
Brooklyn, NY · Jun 2018–Feb 2020
Business Strategist · Independent Consultant
New York, NY · Jan 2017–Oct 2018
Director of Knitwear Design · Elie Tahari
New York, NY · Dec 2014–Dec 2016
Design Development Manager · Ann Taylor (Ann Inc.)
New York, NY · Jun 2013–Dec 2014
Lead Designer · Rousso Apparel Group
New York, NY · May 2012–Apr 2013
Associate Designer · BCBGMAXAZRIA
Los Angeles, CA · Sep 2008–May 2012
Education
Associate of Arts, Fashion Design
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles, CA
Certifications
OKR: Leadership and Goal Setting Certification
Measure What Matters by John Doerr · 2023
Tools, Platforms & Capabilities
Customer Experience & Lifecycle
Revenue Operations & CRM
Growth & Analytics
AI & Automation
Product & Creative
Operations & Collaboration
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