About

Hi, I'm Kara.

I love a challenge, I love learning new things, and I love turning chaos into structure.

In college I studied writing, graphic design, and organizational communication. These three disciplines taught me how people work together, and how to explain things, both verbally and visually, so they actually make sense. Then I spent years building websites one-on-one with clients before going deep into customer operations and program management.

Product ownership is where all of that finally comes together. I take competing needs, fuzzy ownership, and five different versions of the truth, and turn them into something a team can follow. And I'm always thinking about the customer on the other end. If they need another help article to figure it out, I'm not done yet.

If I have to solve the same problem twice, I start wondering how to make sure nobody has to solve it a third time. That's my favorite kind of challenge.

Kara Henry

How I work

Things I'm excited to talk about

Start where it hurts

Before I try to fix anything, I like to find out who owns it and where the real version lives. More often than not, that's also where things are falling apart.

One source of truth, please

A lot of cross-team tension turns out to be three people looking at three different spreadsheets. I love picking the right one together and writing the decision down, so nobody has to sit through that meeting again.

Build it to outlast me

My favorite compliment is a process that keeps running smoothly after I've moved on to the next thing. If it only works when I'm around, I'm not done yet.

Happy to be the translator

I'm comfortable sitting in the middle. I can turn developer-speak into something the rest of us can use, and turn a frustrated customer's email into a ticket an engineer can actually act on.

Outside work

Interests & community

Crafting • Photography • Cooking • Art • Podcasts • Books & Reading

Spanish Fork Community Theater | Board Member

2013 – 2019

Contributed across organizational and creative functions including directing, publicity, graphic design, photography, set design, recruiting, hiring, and administrative operations.

Rescue Rovers | Volunteer Foster

2021 – 2023

Fostered and helped place 12 dogs pulled from high-kill shelters. Prepared each for adoption through socialization and training, wrote adoption profiles, met with prospective adopters, and matched each dog's temperament and needs to a family's environment and structure.

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Contact me

The fastest way to reach me is email, or find me on LinkedIn.