Cooper Hollmaier
Senior Product Manager | Growth • Platforms • eCommerce
I build platforms and growth capabilities that empower teams, enhance customer experiences, and deliver measurable business impact.
Career Arc
- SEO (Marketing Coordinator → Program Manager, Accessibility & Technical SEO): Ran SEO and marketing programs across three companies before moving into product — learned to argue for ideas with data.
- Product Manager, Accessibility: Moved into product and built REI's accessibility practice from zero, earning the Deque Systems Accessibility Culture Award.
- Product Manager, Landing Pages & Navigation: Took what I learned building capabilities and pointed it at revenue — ran a structured experimentation agenda across REI's upper funnel.
- Senior Product Manager, Design Systems & Navigation: Now own platform strategy across web, iOS, and Android — 13 product teams and 50+ internal apps build on it.
Impact at a Glance
- $22M+ in incremental annual revenue from a structured landing-page experimentation agenda — 17 tests, 10 winners, led by a single $11.1M win
- $700K in revenue and 66,000 new sign-ups in 12 months by replacing blanket email pop-ups with context-aware messaging
- $200K+ in annual operational savings — from fixing landing-page production inefficiencies and replacing a $50K/year vendor tool with an in-house one
- Built REI's accessibility capability from zero — 88% reduction in barriers in year one, 90% automated test coverage of REI.com, and the Deque Systems Accessibility Culture Award
- Own the design system and navigation platform reaching 350M+ customer visits a year across 13 product teams and 50+ internal apps
- Shipped a CMS-editable mega menu that cut navigation time-to-market by 98%, and led two major design system releases (Cedar v16 and v17)
Recommendations
- "His product instincts and strategic thinking consistently deliver impressive results." — Peer
- "His ability to foster collaboration, maintain momentum, and bring people together in challenging environments makes him a steady and reliable force on the team" — Peer
- "He brings the kind of energy we need: he's biased toward action, decisive, a natural storyteller, realistic, and super supportive of everyone on the team." — Peer
What I Care About
- Building platforms that scale without a team babysitting them
- Growth and experimentation — testing ideas instead of debating them
- Accessibility as a real product investment, not a checkbox
- Getting large orgs to actually adopt shared systems
Thought Leadership
- Post: Accessibility and SEO - The A11y Project
- Video: An Introduction to Accessibility and SEO - Moz
- Video: SEO and Accessibility: Content - Moz
- Video: SEO and Accessibility: Technical - Moz
- Post: Getting started with TalkBack on Android - The A11y Project
- Talk: Accessible Systems: Shipping Software that Enables by Default - CSUN
- Post: Automated Accessibility Testing: From Passive to Preventative - REI Co-op Engineering
- Post: Convincing a Business to Invest in Accessibility - Design Bootcamp
- Case Study: How REI's systems thinking approach helps scale accessibility across teams