Karen Reed, Lead Category Manager
Karen Reed is the Lead Category Manager for MSN Shopping where her main focus is merchandising, managing her team, creating processes and driving ideas to make the site a better place to shop. She inherited her natural sense of customer focus after spending years at Amazon.com in retail merchandising. At Amazon, Karen gained deep category knowledge through managing categories in Consumer Electronics, Home, Kitchen, Software, and Health & Personal Care.
Her background in managing vendors, inventories, revenue, and understanding the needs and behaviors of the online retailer shopper, makes her a valuable part of the MSN Shopping team. It is Karen's job to address the needs of MSN Shopping's customers – merchants and consumers.
A Seattle native, Karen was raised in Bellevue, she graduated from the University of Washington and now lives with her husband Ryan in Bellevue.
Outside of her career at Microsoft, Karen and her husband love to hike, ski, and enjoy the outdoors. They like spending time in Lake Chelan, Washington with friends and family, boating, hiking, and relaxing at their cabin in Stehekin.
Karen and her husband Ryan in Maui.
