Devon Wells
Product Marketing Manager, Kite
Devon Wells is the product marketing manager at Kite, the AI marketer. His job is to help Kite explain itself to the world (which includes cosigning its content).
Devon has been marketing AI products since 2014, mostly the kind that runs heavy equipment and critical infrastructure rather than the kind you chat with. He served as marketing manager at Wenco, the software and data arm of Hitachi Construction Machinery, which led predictive analytics for heavy machine health and pioneered open standards for autonomous haul trucks for the mining industry. At Urbint, he was senior content marketing manager for a platform that forecasts where underground gas lines, power cables, and fiber-optic lines are likely to be damaged, and which jobs put field workers at risk. He then managed content marketing at Striveworks, a machine learning operations company.
Before that, he worked as a journalist and as an English-as-a-second-language teacher. Both jobs taught him to ask good questions and to be patient with the answers, which turns out to be incredibly valuable when working with AI agents.
He holds a B.A. Honours in English and the Product Marketing Alliance's Product Marketing Core certification. He also completed CS50x, Harvard's free online introduction to computer science.
Devon also builds software with AI coding tools. He has contributed code to Kite, and he built Ojipoji, the daily trivia game where three questions are trying to tell you something.