Vetted Product Professionals

Farabi Hassan

Screened

Principal Product Leader specializing in AI-powered enterprise and marketplace platforms

Seattle, WA13y exp

“Product leader with experience at Zillow, Amazon, and Chewy, focused on high-scale ML and UX-driven product improvements. Has led end-to-end rebuilds and launches that delivered measurable business impact, including a 23% conversion lift in lead routing, 40%+ reduction in delivery-related customer contacts, and 10%+ ecommerce conversion gains.”

Jon Cross

Screened

Executive Operations & Product Leader specializing in Ads, customer experience, and go-to-market

Saratoga, CA21y exp

“COO of Greenopia (pre-seed, pre-revenue) who has built the company’s operational foundation over the past 18 months—supporting fundraising, SEC/crowdfunding setup, and coordinating app and self-serve business onboarding/assessment systems. Brings a metrics-driven operating approach (OKRs, balancing metrics/unit economics) and has advised other startups (e.g., sports betting) to refocus effort on the highest-value customer segments.”

“Product leader at Mastercard who has repeatedly built and commercialized AI-driven fraud products across payments and healthcare, including a patented ML approach and a fraud suite that won 30+ enterprise customers in its first year. Stands out for combining deep ML product judgment with workflow design, explainability, and human-in-the-loop thinking to drive real operational change.”

“Senior product leader with experience spanning Amazon Audible, Capital One, and At-Bay, combining growth, AI, and workflow platform expertise. Notable for leading Audible's Channels build/rebuild, reshaping Capital One's Eno around real service outcomes, and redesigning an underwriting platform with flexible search and agentic alerts. Brings a strong human-centered view of AI informed by both consumer fintech and insurance automation.”

“Operator-turned-aspiring founder with experience building CI, cloud, and AI businesses at Harness, including P&L ownership and 0-to-1 execution. Exploring an AI-native infrastructure/control-plane thesis focused on moving enterprise workflows from AI assistance to execution, with a strong emphasis on ROI, coordination gaps, and durable moats.”

“Senior engineering/technology leader who has defined and delivered a multi-year roadmap to modernize platforms and embed AI, leading global teams through cloud-native and microservices migrations on AWS/Azure. Demonstrated measurable outcomes including 99.99% uptime, 40% fewer incidents, 25% faster delivery, 5x scalability, and $30M in new business opportunities, while scaling a 100+ person distributed org with strong OKR-driven execution and mentorship culture.”

Gayatri Puwar Mahendroo

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI, platforms, and B2B SaaS

San Francisco, CA19y exp

“Senior product leader with 15+ years spanning FAANG-scale platforms and early-stage startups, from Skype’s bot framework at 300M MAU to AI-native enterprise products in fintech, banking, and data center operations. Particularly strong in human-centered AI, trust and transparency UX, and turning ambiguous 0-1 opportunities into shipped MVPs that win pilots, awards, and business traction—including a GenAI observability platform that earned a Google Accelerator award and later led to acquisition.”

Karen Yan

Screened

Staff Product Manager specializing in platform and AI-driven consumer products

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Product leader with experience at Apple and Earnin, focused on redesigning core user journeys with strong UX judgment, experimentation, and applied ML. Notable wins include leading Apple Support's search-first triage experience that increased search usage from 3% to 40% and improved solution reach from 54% to 62%, plus a web onboarding redesign that lifted activation by 12%. Thoughtful about human-centered AI, especially using automation to guide users and support people rather than replace human relationships.”

“Senior product manager with deep fintech and AI product experience across Vanguard and Seeking Alpha. Most notably led Vanguard's first shipped AI product—an ML-powered portfolio optimization web app for financial advisors—from Python prototype to production, while also building internal model validation systems and later redesigning PM training adopted across the organization.”

“Senior product leader from PlayStation and Epic Games with rare experience scaling consumer gaming subscription and personalization platforms at massive scale. Led the PlayStation Plus evolution into a tiered live-service platform, driving growth from 30M to 40M subscribers and a 15% ARPU lift, while also bringing AI/ML personalization expertise from the Epic mobile store and Fortnite ecosystem.”

“Apple product leader with a rare mix of platform, commerce, UX, and AI workflow experience. They led the App Store Connect rebuild for 50,000+ developer partners, shipped high-impact pricing and payments improvements, and recently built Claude-powered investigation tooling that saves engineering time while preserving human judgment. Strong fit for human-centered AI roles where trust, measurable outcomes, and cross-functional execution matter.”

“Senior enterprise product leader with high-impact experience at AWS and SirionLabs, spanning AI-powered database migration and NLP-driven contract analytics. Stands out for shipping trustworthy human-in-the-loop AI products with measurable business impact, including a GA launch that lifted automated schema conversion to 90%+ and drove ~20% downstream revenue growth, plus a rapid COVID-era CLM solution that produced upsell and cross-sell gains.”