Vetted Product Professionals in California

“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.”

“Operations leader with Apple and Roku experience who owned founder-level, cross-functional initiatives including Roku’s Brazil market entry (regulatory, tax/entity setup, manufacturing/logistics, and launch metrics) with direct CEO oversight. Built Roku’s International Business Operations function from zero—standardizing OKRs, dashboards, and country-level P&Ls—and influenced major strategic decisions like exiting a ~$10.5M-loss UK channel business and restructuring Mexico ads go-to-market via partnership.”

“Fintech/neobank CTO (5+ years across US and UK markets) now building Payzo Money, a fintech copilot for SMBs covering expenses, accounting, invoicing, and payroll. Pre-revenue and seeking a $5M seed round, with active Bay Area conversations and a clear focus on bank sponsorship plus compliance/operations readiness; leverages Claude-based AI agents to accelerate building with limited resources.”

“Enterprise CSM with experience at IBM and Cloudera, focused on AI and cloud modernization engagements. Drives adoption, renewals, and expansion by building success plans with measurable ROI/usage outcomes, mediating complex stakeholder priorities, and unblocking deployments through tight Product/Engineering/Sales coordination. Also brings strong GTM analytics capability (Salesforce/HubSpot/GA/Tableau/SQL) to improve funnel performance and pipeline conversion.”

“Recruiting/Talent Operations leader with deep Lever ATS and analytics experience who led a high-impact Grace Hopper Conference program, creating attribution tracking via unique links and coordinating IT/engineering/TA to drive thousands of applicants and improved operational outcomes. Redesigned recruiter–hiring manager intake and alignment workflows with automation, improving time-to-fill by ~20%, and led compliance initiatives including pay transparency and ADA-accessible job descriptions using CommonLook/PAC in partnership with Legal and Compensation.”

“Apparel product developer/sourcing manager at Linkwear Limited who led high-risk, low-MOQ launches (down to 50 pcs/style) by reverse-engineering samples into tech packs, aggressively vetting/negotiating suppliers, and managing production through QC and shipping. Demonstrated trade-risk hedging (Section 301) via parallel sourcing and hands-on supplier recovery by traveling to Wuxi to resolve a mill bottleneck.”

“Early-career technologist with internship experience deploying and fixing production/demo service configurations despite poor documentation, using step-through debugging and prior demo references to restore progress quickly. Also has hands-on IT technician experience diagnosing hardware failures (hard drive damage), recovering files, and replacing drives, plus QA test development in Python for customer-reported bugs and a strong focus on networking (monitoring, IP activity analysis).”