Hi, I’m Christiane Wruck.

I am a seasoned Multi-industry Product Leader with nearly 15 years of experience. Trained by industry leaders (ProdUx, SVPG, and Cooper Professional Education), I combine world-class education with hands-on experience to create more efficient, effective product development processes.

I shape high performing teams by upskilling top talent and bringing in the right expertise to elevate teams leveraging continuous discovery habits and best-in-class product development practices.

My superpower is storytelling and cross-functional collaboration. My success in product leadership depends on aligning stakeholders and rallying teams around a shared vision to drive meaningful outcomes.

My current career is greatly informed by my past careers. (see below)

“You are not meant to live a life like anyone else. You are meant to live as yourself. Take your time.”

Christiane Wruck

I’m an Outdoorsy Girl

I’ve lived in a lot of places and hiked and climbed a lot of mountains. Most hikes are just me and my dog, Abby. She’s an old lady now, so our hiking days look a lot different than they used to.

Before Software,
My world was
Film Festivals

From 2005 - 2011, I helped start and run a small, but very successful film festival in Oregon called the Ashland Independent Film Festival. During that time I worked with our tech provider to create a custom online ticketing system called “Wruckstar Ticketing”. This partnership is when I started learning how to write code and immerse myself in database development and usability.
I also worked for the Austin Film Festival (2008) for a year, followed by the Sundance Film Festival (2008-2010) for a couple years.

Before Film Festivals,
I was a Wilderness Ranger and WildLand FireFighter

I was a Wilderness Ranger in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (1997-2002). My summer was spent in a canoe, checking permits, digging latrines, cutting back vegetation on portages, cleaning out fire grates, cutting hazardous trees (with cross cuts and axes), building boardwalks, writing tickets and other miscellaneous Forest Service tasks. In many way, a dream job.
In the fall when the fires started out west, they’d ship us out to detail on Fires for 3-4 weeks at a time. Often traveling state-to-state to work initial attack and prescribed burns, I worked on Type I and Type II hand crews, staffed an engine for an entire summer, and worked Heli-attack for 2 details.

Fire Watch out situations are something I’ve adapted to my current career. Identifying factors that are anti-patterns in software development helps everyone stay safe and aware~ just like Fire Watch out situations.