Curtis Blunden is a Product Manager
The go-to PM for complex products and real outcomes
A Product Manager purpose-built for complexity
Delivering outcomes across enterprise SaaS, fintech, and healthtech
Shipped products
Production-ready platforms built from 0 to 1, with real commercial outcomes and minimal hand-holding.
Measurable impact
Results tied to revenue, cost savings, and customer growth. Not estimates, shipped work.
Regulated environments
Fintech, insurance, enterprise software. Comfortable where the constraints are real.
Trusted
7+ years across ASX-listed, Nasdaq-listed, and high-growth companies.
Across leading Australian organisations
Strong results where it counts
Revenue, conversion, and adoption from shipped work
Product Manager at Queensland Country Bank
Full Time . 2026 - Present
Responsible for deposit products and commercial partnerships at Queensland Country Bank. Working across product discovery, member needs analysis, and commercial relationship management to ensure the deposit offering performs well and remains relevant to member and market needs.
Product Lead at RPS Group
Full Time . 2023 - 2026
Built a project management platform from scratch as sole PM. Took it from 0 to 62 organisations, grew MRR from $45K to $76K, and ran a 5-month post-acquisition migration with zero customer churn after RPS was acquired by Tetra Tech for $775M.
Product Manager at VALD
Full Time . 2022 - 2023
Owned VALD Hub, a central data platform for a global healthtech leader across 8,000+ organisations and 50 countries. Reduced dashboard delivery time by 67% and shipped normative data overlays adopted by 80%+ of clinicians as a core clinical decision tool.
Senior Digital Product Owner at Suncorp
Full Time . 2021 - 2022
Owned the AAMI car insurance acquisition funnel generating ~$100M in annual premium. Lifted conversion by 2.3%, delivering $3.7M in additional annual premium. Delivered ridesharing cover after multi-year regulatory approval, unlocking an estimated $700M addressable market.
Delivery Manager at Suncorp
Secondment (Maternity Leave Cover) . 2020 - 2021
Led a 15-person engineering and automation team delivering workflow automation across Suncorp Bank. Delivered $3.7M in annualised cost savings across 7 automated workflows and reduced loan variation processing time by 93%, from 45 minutes to 3 minutes.
Senior Digital Product Owner, Suncorp
Full Time . 2018 - 2020
Owned Suncorp Bank’s mobile app through a multi-year platform migration consolidating multiple legacy products into a single app serving 500K customers. Built a chatbot that lifted self-service deflection from 8% to 47% over 18 months, reducing call volumes by approximately 162 calls per day.
Early Career at Suncorp
Full Time . 2015 - 2018
Started as a branch teller and moved through to frontline digital leadership, managing secure messages, emails, and social channels. Built foundational banking knowledge and cross-team collaboration skills, with direct exposure to product teams that led to the transition into product management.
Writing
The end of venture subsidised AI
1 May 2026
Venture capital funded AI adoption at artificially low costs. Now compute is getting more expensive and capital is tightening. My take on what happens when the subsidy ends and unit economics actually matter.
Latest posts
30 March 2026
I built a job tracker
Job searching generates enough noise on its own. Roles across multiple platforms, listings that disappear, no single place to make sense of it all. So I built something to keep track of it.
12 March 2026
What “0 to 1 as sole PM” actually looks like
Honest account of building a product from scratch with no design lead, no research team, and a small engineering team.
9 March 2026
Your roadmap is a lie and that’s fine
Most roadmaps are fiction dressed up as strategy. The problem is not that plans change, it is that teams pretend they won’t.
15 February 2026
Building in regulated environments: what changes
Compliance is not the enemy of good product work. But it will expose every shortcut you were planning to take.