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“Taylor was my boss – one of the best I’ve had.”

“Taylor is one of those rare leaders who can walk into chaos, see the path forward, and bring everyone along with her.

In her time as Product Owner at LearnDash, she took a struggling product and helped rebuild both the vision and the team behind it. Together with our LD leadership team, she helped rebuild the culture, stabilize product operations, and drive real, measurable impact. With Taylor at the helm, LD rolled out massive accessibility improvements, helped us sunset LD Cloud in favor of StellarSites, introduced modern courses and presenter mode, and led us through the most challenging and major update: LearnDash 5.0, a release that will stabilize the REST API and add agentic support via Modern Context Protocol.

But before all of that, Taylor was my boss – one of the best I’ve had. When she hired me into Give, I was brand new to WordPress and a little out of my depth. She saw potential I had yet to recognize in myself and gave me the guidance and space to grow. With her support, I found my footing, discovered my love (and aptitude) for product marketing, and built a career that continue to challenge and fulfill me.

Eventually our paths shifted – hers into product management and mine into senior product marketing – but we got to keep working side-by-side, learning from each other along the way.

Taylor is an incredible human. She’s smart, wildly driven, capable… but also kind, funny, and deeply loyal. Over the years, we’ve become true friends. Celebrating career wins and milestones, grieving losses, and yes… dissecting every new Taylor Swift album together.

Taylor’s time at Stellar may have ended but the mark she’s left on the product, the people, and on me – will last a long time. I’m endlessly grateful for her leadership and her friendship.”

Camber Clemence
Senior Product Marketing Manager @ LiquidWeb, Cloud One Digital
on LinkedIn

Reviewer Meta Data

relationship: peer → direct_report → peer+
length: 5_years
taylor_versions: vGiveWP_all → vStellarWP_ProdMarkDir → vLearnDash_ProOwn
focus: ld_5-0; customer_voice; AI_ops; market-fit; go-to-market_framework; team-building; crisis-communication_framework
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Relationship:
I hired Camber at GiveWP when she was brand-new to WordPress, stepping into the role of Social Media Manager. As her direct supervisor, I watched her evolve from storyteller to strategist — growing into a true product-marketing leader with a deep understanding of community, customers, and data-driven impact.

When she was ready to move into a senior role, I moved into product management at LearnDash. She essentially became my successor, taking the reins I’d built — and adding her own creativity and precision to every brand she touched.

Length:
Five years, spanning multiple product lines and two major career transitions.

Taylor Versions:
Camber and I first worked together when I was Digital Content Marketing Manager at GiveWP, then continued through my tenure as Director of Product Marketing across GiveWP, IconicWP, Orderable, KadenceWP, and WP Business Reviews. Later, at LearnDash, we reunited — this time as peers — me as Product Owner and her as Senior Product Marketing Manager overseeing several brands, including LearnDash.

Focus:
Our collaboration covered nearly every layer of product evolution — from narrative to ops, and everything between:

  • ld_5-0 → Camber led the marketing strategy for the LearnDash 5.0 launch alongside me, aligning go-to-market positioning, customer enablement, and cross-team communication across StellarWP brands.
  • customer_voice → We both championed the customer’s perspective inside every roadmap discussion — a skill we refined together as marketers and I later brought into product management.
  • AI_ops → Camber was among the first cross-functional leaders I enabled with early AI workflows and custom GPT instructions to streamline messaging, content strategy, and market research.
  • market-fit → We collaborated for years on refining product-market positioning — evolving how StellarWP defined and communicated value across its ecosystem.
  • go-to-market_framework → Together, we developed a repeatable launch framework that categorized releases (major, feature, maintenance) and paired each with strategic revenue-driving tactics.
  • team-building → Across several restructures, we worked in tandem to protect trust, morale, and communication — creating calm and clarity during chaotic transitions.
  • crisis-communication_framework → I originally built the framework at GiveWP; Camber inherited, refined, and carried it forward, setting the tone for how the organization communicated through high-impact events.