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Guest Spotlight: Dave Massey

Dave Massey
UPS | Exec

About Dave Massey

Dave Massey is Head of Research, Experimentation, and Personalization at UPS, where his J.E.D.I. team (Journey Experience and Design Innovation) turned a two-person operation into a program generating over $500M across 80+ applications. His first experiment alone produced $35M in incremental revenue, and he's defended every number to skeptical executives since.

Notable Quotes

"We have delivered over half a billion dollars in incremental revenue."

"I was told I was crazy. It wasn't going to help anything. It was just going to make customers angry. Well, I did it anyway."

"The business now knows that they ignore Jedi at their own peril."

"We don't have an infinite dance card, so we've got to kind of prioritize that."

"There's no such thing as a bad test because we learn one way or the other."

Dave Massey
UPS | Head of Research, Experimentation & Personalization

How UPS generated half a billion from 80+ Apps with A/B testing

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Takeaways

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Massey's first test removed navigation from UPS's shipping checkout flow and delivered $35 million in incremental revenue—proving e-commerce best practices apply even when customers think "this is just a tool, not e-commerce."

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UPS runs everything centrally now, but the real win is that demand for testing has decentralized—business units across the company now come to J.E.D.I. asking to test their ideas.

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The same feature (required recipient email) failed for customer data capture but passed for international customs—proof that framing and customer benefit matter more than the feature itself.

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When senior leaders push ideas, Massey's team tests them instead of arguing—then delivers results that either validate the idea or identify three better alternatives the data actually supports.

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J.E.D.I.'s win rate stays high because UX research and experimentation teams operate under the same leader, giving the program both behavioral metrics and voice-of-customer insight before tests ever launch.

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