Selected work · Käthe Anchel

Twenty years of building what's next — for banks, platforms, and the people who run them.

A working tour of the products and transformations I've led: SaaS platforms, payments and commerce, digital banking, beta communities, and AI-first product strategy. Screens below are drawn from real engagements; details are summarized to respect each company's confidentiality.

Wonder Consulting · Fractional Product & Operational Leadership · 2024–2026

Lettuce — AI-first strategy for the SoloOS

lettuce.co ↗

Lettuce is a tax and accounting platform built for solopreneurs — "you build it, we run it." As fractional product lead I drove AI, onboarding, and customer experience enhancements — helping turn a strong tax engine into a smoother, more self-driving back office for businesses of one.

Lettuce marketing site
The marketing site — positioning the SoloOS
Lettuce pricing plans
Inside the platform — packaging & pricing
Lettuce income allocation settings
Income allocation — see how your money flows
Lettuce onboarding flow
Onboarding — incorporation in plain language
Revance Aesthetics · General Manager, Financial Services · 2021–2024

OPUL — payments, loyalty & commerce for aesthetics practices

revance.com ↗

Joined post-acquisition to lead strategy, operations, and commercialization of OPUL, Revance's payments and loyalty platform for aesthetics businesses. Led a multidisciplinary organization across Product, UX, Engineering, PayOps, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success.

$80M → $790M
annual processing volume
200 → 1,150+
active business customers by year two
+29%
consumer loyalty via new membership & rewards
OPUL memberships — turn clients into loyal members
Memberships — turning one-and-done into recurring
OPUL membership setup and product catalog
Practice setup — 6,000+ products & services
OPUL platform — patient profile, membership and mobile
The platform — patient profile, membership & mobile
OPUL across terminal, tablet and desktop
One system across terminal, tablet and desktop
Umpqua Bank · EVP, Innovation, Product & Experience · 2018–2021

Go-To — a human banker in your pocket

Led a comprehensive transformation of Umpqua's digital product and innovation teams and defined the bank's first open-banking innovation platform. Go-To let customers choose a named, dedicated banker and message them directly — human relationship banking, delivered digitally. Implemented Agile product development, established a company-wide CX practice, and shipped financial wellness features and contactless payments — including a partnership exploration with Google Plex to put the bank inside Google Pay.

Go-To brand mark
Go-To — the brand for human banking, digitally
Umpqua Go-To — choose your dedicated personal banker
Pick your banker, then message them directly
Go-To app screens
In the app — balances, goals, and your banker
Umpqua mobile banking accounts screen
The wider digital banking experience
Citi FinTech · Director, Product Management · 2016–2018

Canvas — Citi's co-creation & beta community

Directed the cross-functional team launching customer-facing beta experiences from Citi's innovation programs — conversational AI, financial wellness, location-based insights, and blockchain. Established and ran canvas.citi.com, the co-creation community that put experiments in front of real customers fast, with the modular UX frameworks and governance that let a global bank ship safely. Empower — an AI-driven financial fitness beta with a conversational assistant and embedded partner offers — is one of the apps we took to market through it.

Canvas — Ready to invent what's next?
"Ready to invent what's next?" — the join flow
Canvas experiment — Wants, Needs and Goals
A live experiment — reclassifying spending as Wants, Needs & Goals
Empower — a beta app tested through Canvas
Empower, inspired by Citi — a beta we ran through Canvas
Empower financial insights and partner offers
Inside the beta — AI insights, points, and partner offers
Passion project · Designed & shipped with AI · 2025–present

SoberLot — find your people, lose the flyer

soberlot.com ↗

A personal passion project: every sober event, by month and location, in one place — save one and get reminded before it happens. Designed and shipped end-to-end with AI as the build partner, the same loop I bring to client work pointed at something that matters to me.

SoberLot events browser
The live app — browse, filter, save
SoberLot logo
The brand

The earlier chapters

PayPalHead of US Consumer Solutions, 2013–2015 — global demand generation platform, next-gen consumer value proposition & youth-market segmentation
eBaySenior Manager, UX & Platform Innovation, 2012–2013
American College of PhysiciansSenior Manager, Web Content & UX, 2007–2012
VirTu, Inc.Interactive Creative Director, 1998–2000
Cerebellum Corp.Screenwriter, 1997–1999 — where the storytelling started

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