Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Eng., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
B.S., Humanities & Engineering · Minor, Theater Arts
About Jessie McRae
The hardest problems don’t fit neatly inside one function.
AI transformation leader turning AI capability into products, operating models, and commercial outcomes.
I design systems that move AI from strategy to adoption, integrating intelligent technology, human experience, and commercial execution.
Currently
Building AI transformation end to end.
Flishworks helps ventures and client organizations rethink products, workflows, experiences, and commercial systems for an AI-enabled future.
Through its Foundry, validated approaches become reusable capabilities for faster experimentation, deployment, and market learning.
How I lead
How I turn complexity into coordinated action.
Navigate complexity. Define the path forward.
Distill competing signals into root causes and underlying dynamics, and define the critical decisions, tradeoffs, and ownership needed to move forward.
Recognize individual strengths. Build complementary teams.
Understand individual strengths, assemble complementary disciplines and perspectives, and create the conditions for each person to contribute at their best.
Set direction. Preserve specialist authority.
Set clear objectives, allow autonomy in how outcomes are achieved, and let domain experts own the relevant decisions.
Create shared ownership. Build a learning culture.
Foster candid feedback, psychological safety, and shared accountability so teams can experiment, adapt, and continuously improve.
Convert vision into execution. Empower others to succeed.
Translate future-state ideas into concrete experiments, products, and operating models, and create the structures that enable others to deliver.
Ground in reality. Name the constraint.
Always ground the work in real people, evidence, market conditions, and workflows, and identify key constraints so resourcing can be optimized toward the desired outcome.
Selected earlier work
Emerging technology, human experience, product creation, and business transformation.
Product strategy + GTM leadership
GTM Strategy & Growth, Payments Modernization, J.P. Morgan Payments
Led Product-to-market and enterprise transformation, connecting customer-driven Product strategy to cross-product operating models, Product Marketing, GTM, and commercialization.
AI experience strategy + innovation R&D
Wells Fargo Innovation Group
Directed AI experience strategy for an enterprise Virtual Assistant and built an R&D operating model for evaluating emerging technologies, from semantic knowledge systems to AR/VR.
Director, Product Management & Design, Proever
Defined the product and experience architecture for an AI-enabled enterprise knowledge and talent platform.
- pedler
Product & Design Lead, Pedler + Pinch
Built and prototyped two early-stage mobile products spanning market and user validation, product design, interaction design, and hands-on iOS development.
Head of Product Design & Production, Flow Immersive
Shaped early business and product direction, spatial storyboarding, and production design for an emerging VR/AR data-storytelling company.
Co-Founder · COO · Head of Product, Firestar Virtual Productions
Launched an early-stage virtual production venture, building the product, brand, partner ecosystem, and customer experience from the ground up.
Executive Director
Silicon Valley Innovation Institute
Expanded programming and partnerships for an entrepreneurial innovation community, growing its audience while strengthening execution and financial sustainability.
Lead Product Manager, Oracle Fusion Procurement
Led Oracle Fusion Supplier Qualification from 0→1 through its first development cycle, defining workflows, product data, evaluation logic, requirements, and experience.
Education & Research
Technology, human learning, and business.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
M.Ed., Arts in Education
University of Cambridge · Cambridge-MIT Exchange
Academic-year exchange through MIT · Cambridge, UK
University of Arizona Global Campus, Forbes School of Business & Technology
MBA
Academic / Research Application
MIT CSAIL · MIT Media Lab, Future of Learning · Microsoft Research
Designed and engineered the first Instructor Authoring Tool for Classroom Learning Partner, connecting AI-supported student analysis, instructor feedback, and real-time adaptation.
Selected credentials
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Earlier portfolio