Vetted Product Strategy Professionals

William Armstrong

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Product Engineer specializing in AI and SaaS

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Product intern at an AI startup (AdvisorGPT) who helped turn an LLM-based prototype into a production SEO blog-generation workflow that matched a firm’s tone/voice and targeted specific search phrases. Strong at bridging technical and non-technical teams, rapidly learning new AI tooling, and driving adoption through customer calls, UX improvements, and customer-facing demos/workshops.”

Luciano Barrios

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Principal Hardware & Systems Architect specializing in edge AI and biometrics

Buenos Aires, Argentina25y exp

“Career startup operator now building a self-funded venture in home, professional, and industrial automation plus physical access control. Brings hands-on early-stage hardware/platform development experience along with investor-facing fundraising support, including technical presentations and introducing new ventures to existing funding relationships.”

Michael Hopkin

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive product leader specializing in AI platforms and SaaS

Portland, OR21y exp

“Senior product leader with experience rebuilding products and organizations in healthcare, research administration, public safety, and K-12 education. Stands out for building a product team from zero at Plexus and shipping an award-winning platform in 8 months, while also bringing strong human-centered AI judgment from ML compliance products at Cayuse and education strategy work at Imagine Learning.”

Crystal Marcus-Kanesaka

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Product Designer specializing in onboarding, activation, and product-led growth

20y exp

“Seasoned product strategist and UX-led product leader with ~20 years across education, cybersecurity, Web3, martech, media, and public/private sector work. She combines hands-on AI-enabled product building with large-scale team leadership, including launching zero-to-one cybersecurity learning products, scaling Braintrust programs from 2,500 to 58,000 users, and improving onboarding experiences that helped double ARR to $400M. Her background in underserved K-12 communities and blended learning makes her especially compelling for human-centered AI and educational equity roles.”

Brandon Pav

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO specializing in cloud architecture, DevSecOps, and scalable SaaS platforms

Indianapolis, IN13y exp

“Founder of Pavtek Consulting LLC who acts as a hands-on technology leader for startups, building MVPs and full-stack AI products, custom ERPs, integrations, and AI agent chat tools. Notably led a major turnaround at Dyknow (EdTech), cutting major cloud waste and moving the business from a $500k annual loss to double profitability within two years before a successful acquisition.”

“Startup product designer with a CS background who operates at the intersection of UX, product strategy, and implementation. They have owned 0-to-1 design systems, led a research-backed pivot of Fluffle from a solo job tracker to a multiplayer productivity app, and specialize in trust-building UX for AI-native products while working closely enough with engineers to influence production quality.”

“Product/UX designer with experience building an end-to-end AI campaign/session platform that converted an engineer-led, code-heavy workflow into a self-serve marketer product using a target/act/schedule interaction model, progressive disclosure, and real-time previews. Also redesigned monitoring for Informatica’s enterprise data platform after field research with data engineers, shifting the UI toward lifecycle views and failure-state observability.”

“Backend/data engineer who reports building production Python services (FastAPI + JWT) backed by Postgres and Redis, and modernizing data workflows using AWS Glue + PySpark with S3/RDS. States experience delivering AWS solutions (S3, SES, Cognito) and using golden datasets/snapshot testing for migration parity, with many details withheld due to NDAs. Seeking fully remote work with a $300k base salary expectation.”

“Growth/partnerships operator in the creator ecosystem who runs creator-led GTM launches and brand collaborations (not yet a traditional gaming studio partnership). Has executed a baby wellness program launch using Facebook/TikTok/Instagram plus live Zoom Q&As and co-branded partnerships, and designed outcome-based email re-engagement loops to improve repeat engagement; helped drive a campaign that led to a SEA creator award.”

“AI startup co-founder and CTO who helped raise $2.6M in seed funding at RedRex and drove product strategy from ideation through execution. Experienced with rapid experimentation and AI-driven prototyping to validate ideas quickly, and has direct exposure to the VC/accelerator ecosystem (Gener8tor) with a market-first approach to building and pitching startups.”

“Senior edtech product leader with nearly 20 years of experience who owned CCL's primary digital platform across strategy, execution, hiring, and operations. Most notably, they transformed a digital content delivery need into a licensing business that became the fastest-growing and highest-margin line in company history, while also shipping human-centered AI learning features and consolidating legacy tools into a unified platform.”

Brad Anderson

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in FinTech, SaaS, and digital transformation

Texas, USA23y exp

“Product leader with experience spanning telecom, fintech mortgage, and hospitality, including a major AT&T rebuild of a fragmented digital sales flow and AI-enabled lending/onboarding products. Brings a strong mix of legacy modernization, cross-functional alignment, UX iteration, and human-centered thinking about AI as an amplifier rather than a replacement.”

“Director-level product leader with experience spanning SaaS platform rebuilds, pricing strategy, and AI-native workflow design. At Skykit, they led a major self-serve/PLG account management transformation across multiple teams, and they also built an AI sales quoting tool using a multi-stage RAG pipeline that reached 100% quote accuracy in user testing.”

“Industrial design + mechanical engineering product developer with 15 years in venture-backed startups and venture studios, including CTO-level leadership and a recent equity exit. Now building a sustainability/recycling technology venture with a prototype and patent counsel engaged, currently in the City of Austin Circular Economy Accelerator and aiming to secure a municipal waste-management pilot partner at an upcoming pitch event.”

“Founding product leader at Vergent who built out a 6-person product team and led a major modernization of a 16-year-old platform, collapsing 20+ legacy screens into configurable workflows and shipping a year ahead of schedule. Also shipped AI products in lending, including computer-vision-based document validation/parsing and ML for first-payment-default prediction, with a human-in-the-loop rollout strategy.”

Scott Beck

Screened

Director-level product leader specializing in AI-powered learning and FinTech SaaS

Washington, DC18y exp

“Product leader in financial education and behavior-change products who challenged a gamification-heavy market and built Everfi's action-oriented Achieve Tools platform as a core differentiator. Also has experience shipping AI-enabled coaching for active traders and leading complex, accessibility-driven initiatives like the U.S. Treasury Direct Express education experience, with a clear human-centered view of AI in learning.”

“Product leader focused on transforming legacy white-label personal cloud platforms into AI-native consumer experiences at global telecom scale. They led the launch of ML-powered features across brands like AT&T, Verizon, and SoftBank, drove ~25% MAU growth, and paired strong UX judgment with deep technical fluency in AI infrastructure, rollout governance, and cost optimization.”

paul mack

Screened

Senior Product Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS, AI, and digital transformation

Detroit, MI18y exp

“Product leader with an unusual blend of AI product building, social work training, and hands-on education experience. Built an AI-powered relationship coaching app from scratch, led IAM product strategy in fleet SaaS, and previously taught biology/AP Biology through Teach For America and helped found a high-performing Detroit charter school.”

“Enterprise healthcare SaaS implementation and customer success leader focused on OR/clinic scheduling optimization, owning end-to-end deployments from discovery through training, adoption, and renewal across multi-hospital systems. Strong analytics/ROI storytelling (Tableau/Looker, QBRs) linking AI-driven outreach and block release workflows to increased case volume and improved block utilization, and experienced partnering with Product/Sales to resolve integrations and drive roadmap/upsell outcomes.”