Vetted Product Strategy Professionals

“Mobile F2P product leader (11+ years) who has built and published multiple games—most notably Hexa Sort—into multi-million-dollar IPs with publishers like Lion Studios (AppLovin), Voodoo, and Tango. Known for rigorous, data-driven monetization and engagement optimization (months-long multi-variant testing, activation milestone discovery, ROAS-focused launch tuning) and for leading cross-functional teams across product, growth, and data.”

Joseph Barba

Screened

Executive Venture Builder specializing in company formation and go-to-market execution

Nashville, TN14y exp

“Startup operator and investor with experience as a partner at 4th Quarter and former Head of Business Development at Savage Ventures, where they ran the most profitable division across a 20-company portfolio. Currently building multiple ventures under their own studio, with several functional MVPs already developed and early signs of product-market fit.”

“Product leader with hands-on experience building enterprise SaaS products from 0 to 1, including Valueflow, a customer lifecycle mapping platform shipped as an MVP in 6 months. Also brings applied AI product experience in compliance software, launching an LLM-based document validation workflow with human-in-the-loop review and strong cross-functional alignment across regulatory, engineering, design, and customer-facing teams.”

Brandon McCarty

Screened

Executive startup founder specializing in SaaS, FinTech, and operations

Raleigh, NC15y exp

“Founder/product leader who built CureMint, an industry-first procure-to-pay platform for dental groups, combining e-commerce UX, spend controls, AP workflows, and AI-driven catalog normalization. He appears strongest in zero-to-one product leadership, domain-driven product strategy, and strategic pivots—ultimately evolving the company toward fintech/payments and helping support its Series A story.”

“Product leader with early-stage startup experience who has built product teams and worked on complex cross-border payments infrastructure at Navro. Also building an AI-native editorial side project, using Claude and automation to source scientific research, translate it for mainstream audiences, and streamline publishing end-to-end.”

Yashaswini Mohan

Screened

Mid-level Product Manager and Software Engineer specializing in data-driven product execution

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Product professional with 4 years spanning software engineering, program management, and product execution, who led a 0-to-1 AI education product focused on student engagement. Drove AI Academy from ambiguous vision to MVP across 6 sprints, aligning faculty, students, and engineers and reporting 70% user participation.”

“Sourcing/Product Development professional with deep China-based manufacturing experience who launched an eco-friendly cleaning brush line made from 100% recycled fishing nets and delivered on an Earth Day deadline. Built cost and tariff calculators to drive decisions and profitability, including improving Target private label net margins by 6 points, and runs a compliance/QC-heavy vendor qualification process (BSCI/SMETA, golden samples, third-party inspections).”

“Cross-functional operator/chief-of-staff style leader who took a product from prototype to a live pilot in 3 months, spanning public-sector data normalization, an ML matching engine, a secure API, and KPI/investor demo instrumentation. Strong focus on executive alignment and productivity via Notion-based operating systems plus automated reporting (Python/Power BI), with experience supporting fundraising and go-to-market narratives.”

Dawood Shaik

Screened

Senior Product Marketing Manager specializing in GTM, channel enablement, and pricing analytics

Minneapolis, MN9y exp

“Growth-creative/performance creative specialist focused on UGC-led paid social across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Uses structured creative testing (e.g., hook/angle matrices) and modular asset systems to iterate quickly; cited a campaign that lifted efficiency (25% CPA improvement, ROAS 1.8x→2.4x) and then scaled spend ~60% while maintaining performance.”

“Early-stage venture/accelerator operator and co-founder (Decade Ventures) with a systems-driven approach to high-volume founder sourcing and pipeline management. Built non-obvious dealflow channels via international trade missions and embassy networks (Canada, Israel, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia) while running a corporate accelerator at Spring (UK water-sector innovation center). Strong in founder discovery, evidence-based evaluation, and creating standardized partner updates that reduce decision friction.”

Danny Gainer

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI-powered B2B SaaS

American Fork, UT9y exp

“Product leader in sales tech who has served as both the first product hire and Head/Director of Product, with hands-on experience building AI-native workflow products. Most notably, they led an AI sales coaching product that analyzed calls and delivered personalized coaching, driving a 7% lift in revenue per rep per day, and also redesigned rep workflows to cut disposition time by 75%. Their differentiator is a strong human-centered AI philosophy focused on changing behavior and building trust, not just automating tasks.”

“Engineering leader who modernized infrastructure by migrating a ~100-server co-location setup to AWS/GCP with IaC, auto-scaling, and fault-tolerant design, reducing hardware upgrade burden. Also led a key analytics architecture shift from MySQL to ClickHouse to enable highly granular ad revenue attribution and profitability insights, while scaling the dev org from 2–3 to ~12 with stronger CI/testing and review processes.”

Muhammad Mufti Aziz

Screened

Mid-level Product & QA Specialist specializing in FinTech payments and growth

London, UK6y exp

“QA tester with console game experience across PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo, focused on online multiplayer stability and monetization/reward flows, with pre-launch defect prevention. Brings a regulated fintech compliance-testing background and applies structured triage, SQL-based server/client validation, and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate coverage and debugging.”

Richa Jindal

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in SaaS CRM, MarTech, and GenAI products

India8y exp

“Product/LiveOps leader who applies free-to-play mechanics to live consumer products; led monetization and engagement for Pavo (video-based Gen Z dating app on iOS/Android), addressing weak D7 retention and low free-to-paid conversion. Implemented progression, nudges, soft paywalls, experimentation, and real-time moderation, driving 3.2x DAU and ~60% lift in early engagement while improving conversion without harming retention.”

Mark Eagle

Screened

Executive Technology & Operations Leader (CTO/COO) specializing in scaling SaaS and enterprise software

Denver, Colorado29y exp

“Operations leader and advisor (former COO at College Partnership; also worked with Founders Advisors) who rebuilds and scales early-stage operations using Lean Startup experimentation and KPI-driven execution. Notably centralized a call-center function, implemented scripts/SLAs/metrics, and iterated staffing based on conversion and response-time data while mentoring non-ops founders on MVPs, SMART goals, and tactical operating plans.”

Stephanie Freedman

Screened

Senior product specialist specializing in FinTech, legal tech, and enterprise SaaS

New Jersey, USA11y exp

“Product leader with experience rebuilding fintech/legal-tech products through direct customer research, especially in credit and restructuring workflows. She has shipped an NLP-driven restructuring risk product for public companies, improved adoption through UX simplification and training, and has worked across users ranging from junior analysts to law firm partners and managing directors.”

Manish Shukla

Screened

Senior AI Product Manager specializing in healthcare and FinTech automation

Santa Clara, CA13y exp

“Bay Area-based consultant with 15 years spanning senior product management and product delivery, focused on digital transformation, automation, and legacy modernization. He brings regulated-domain experience with Kaiser Permanente, Express Scripts, and OrthoBank, plus practical AI prototyping experience in insurance document classification using TensorFlow and workflow-focused product design.”

“Entrepreneur and turnaround operator who recently sold a patented mobile + connected TV (CTV) technology startup. Took the product from concept and use-case definition through market testing, product planning, and GTM traction, ultimately converting a prospective client presentation to a European regional digital media company into an acquisition; also advises on turnarounds including stalled VC investments.”

“Cloud/distributed-systems engineer who has shipped real-time, offline-capable ledger/expense infrastructure and solved tricky cross-layer production bugs (carrier handoff retries causing duplicate writes) using packet captures and device logs. Also built modular Python ETL/catalog pipelines for e-commerce with config-toggled plugins for customer-specific pricing/SKU rules, and iterated product changes directly with on-site fulfillment operators using feature flags.”

“Product-facing client and deployment leader from Phonexa who managed 80+ midmarket and enterprise accounts while acting as the bridge between customers and engineering. Stands out for turning customer pain points and compliance constraints into roadmap input, implementation playbooks, and faster support processes—driving 90%+ retention, 25% YoY account growth, and major gains in adoption.”

“Built and launched his own free-to-play mobile trivia games (Unity/Xcode/Android Studio), monetizing through IAPs and multiple ad networks (AppLovin/Chartboost/AdMob). Combines hands-on implementation with growth and analytics rigor—Facebook Ads + ASO, and daily tracking of retention, crashes, conversion, and LTV:CAC—plus a clear approach to A/B testing and live events tooling.”