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SE-EOS KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY
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DOCUMENT
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Nexstar Digital
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1.0
KNOWLEDGE TYPE
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Company Evidence Library
STATUS
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Canonical
PURPOSE
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This document serves as the canonical record of Sean Endler’s
career at Nexstar Digital.
Rather than functioning as a resume entry, this library captures
the creation of Nexstar’s enterprise User Intelligence
organization, the integration of customer research into executive
decision-making, and the transformation of customer insight into
a strategic capability supporting one of the nation’s largest
digital media organizations.
All resumes, executive biographies, interview responses,
portfolio content, and AI-generated materials should reference
this document when discussing Sean’s contributions at Nexstar.
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ORGANIZATION
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Company
Nexstar Digital
Role
Head of User Intelligence, Design Research & User Testing
Years
2019–2021
Industry
Digital Media
News
Broadcast Television
Advertising
Analytics
Organization Scale
125+ Digital Properties
239 Native Mobile Applications
133M+ Monthly Visitors
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EXECUTIVE CONTEXT
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Sean was recruited to establish Nexstar’s first centralized User
Intelligence organization during a period of rapid digital
transformation.
The objective extended beyond creating a research department.
Executive leadership wanted customer understanding to become a
strategic capability influencing product direction, advertising,
content strategy, business intelligence, engineering priorities,
and executive decision making.
Sean designed and built the operating model, methodologies,
workflows, and organizational relationships necessary to embed
customer insight throughout the enterprise.
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STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT
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Nexstar operated one of the largest collections of local news
properties in the United States.
Success required balancing national strategy with highly localized
audience needs across hundreds of websites and mobile
applications.
Customer expectations, advertising performance, content
engagement, and newsroom priorities varied significantly by
market.
Leadership needed a scalable system capable of continuously
transforming audience behavior into actionable business insight.
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PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
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Founded and led the enterprise User Intelligence organization.
Established standardized research methodologies supporting every
major product organization.
Partnered directly with Product, Engineering, Editorial,
Advertising, Marketing, Business Intelligence, and Executive
Leadership.
Created repeatable research programs spanning qualitative,
quantitative, behavioral, ethnographic, and analytics-based
methods.
Served as executive advisor for customer strategy across Nexstar’s
digital portfolio.
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MAJOR INITIATIVES
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Enterprise User Intelligence
Created Nexstar’s first centralized User Intelligence practice,
providing research services across more than 125 digital
properties and 239 mobile applications.
Research Operating System
Developed standardized research methodologies combining customer
interviews, usability testing, analytics, experimentation,
surveys, ethnography, heatmaps, A/B testing, diary studies,
behavioral observation, and predictive analysis.
Business Intelligence Integration
Partnered with Business Intelligence teams to transform research
findings into executive dashboards, advertising insights,
audience growth strategies, and revenue opportunities.
Product Strategy
Embedded customer research directly into roadmap planning,
prioritization, feature validation, and product decision making.
Newsroom Enablement
Delivered recurring executive presentations translating audience
behavior into actionable recommendations for more than 125 local
news organizations.
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BUSINESS IMPACT
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Established Nexstar’s first enterprise User Intelligence
organization.
Supported digital experiences reaching more than 133 million
monthly visitors.
Created repeatable research systems supporting over 125 websites
and 239 mobile applications.
Improved collaboration across Product, Design, Engineering,
Editorial, Marketing, Revenue, and Executive Leadership.
Enabled customer insight to become an enterprise decision-making
capability rather than an isolated research function.
Improved customer engagement, advertising optimization, content
strategy, and product prioritization through continuous audience
research.
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SIGNATURE ACHIEVEMENTS
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Referenced Achievement IDs
A-006
Product Transformations
A-007
Executive Team Builder
A-009
AI Knowledge Systems
A-010
Cross-Industry Innovation
Referenced Metrics
M-006
Enterprise Product Transformations
M-007
Cross-Functional Organizations Led
M-010
Industries Served
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EXECUTIVE COMPETENCIES DEMONSTRATED
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Executive Leadership
Customer Intelligence
Research Strategy
Product Strategy
Business Intelligence
Systems Thinking
Cross-Functional Leadership
Data-Informed Decision Making
Organizational Design
Enterprise Transformation
Executive Communication
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LASTING LESSONS
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Nexstar fundamentally reinforced Sean’s belief that customer
understanding is one of the most valuable strategic assets an
organization can develop.
Several executive principles became even more deeply embedded.
Customer research belongs in executive conversations.
Data becomes valuable only when translated into action.
Research organizations should create organizational capability,
not simply reports.
The best customer insight programs influence every department.
Organizations learn faster when customer understanding becomes
part of everyday decision making.
These principles continue to influence Sean’s leadership across
AI systems, executive operating models, FanCard, NGAGED, and the
broader SE-EOS knowledge architecture.
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LONG-TERM IMPACT
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Nexstar represents the culmination of Sean’s long-standing belief
that organizations should be built around understanding rather
than assumption.
The User Intelligence operating model established during this
period demonstrated that customer research, analytics,
experimentation, and executive strategy become dramatically more
valuable when integrated into a single enterprise capability.
This experience directly influenced Sean’s later work in AI,
knowledge systems, executive decision frameworks, and intelligent
organizational operating models.
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COMMON INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
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How did you build an enterprise User Intelligence organization?
How did customer research influence executive strategy?
How did you integrate research into Product and Engineering?
What impact did customer insight have on business outcomes?
How did Nexstar influence your executive philosophy?
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Executive Operating System
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Executive Competency Matrix
Metrics Library
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Cleared For Takeoff
Leadership Stories
Transformation Stories
AI Stories
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AI METADATA
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Knowledge Type
Company Evidence Library
Organization
Nexstar Digital
Industry
Digital Media
Broadcast
News
Primary Competencies
Customer Intelligence
Research Leadership
Enterprise Strategy
Product Leadership
Systems Thinking
Executive Communication
Evidence Strength
100 / 100
Resume Priority
Critical
Interview Priority
Critical
Story Priority
Critical
Canonical Status
Approved
Version
1.0