Vetted User Research Professionals

Anand Madhusoodanan

Screened

Executive HR Tech & Salesforce Architect specializing in AI-driven recruiting automation

Bengaluru, India9y exp

“Co-founder of an HR tech startup who took an LLM-centered skill intelligence engine from prototype to production to deliver explainable, skill-based resume insights as an alternative to black-box ATS screening. Previously worked in consulting (Deloitte, Stand Up, Brilio), with experience in technical demos/workshops, pre-sales scoping, and supporting large deal cycles (including a ~$1M UK automotive client).”

Cheryl Qian

Screened

Junior Product Designer specializing in AI-powered SaaS products

New York, NY3y exp

“Product-minded designer/builder who operates at the intersection of UX, support, and engineering. At Miter, they helped launch three products and built the customer-facing readiness layer that contributed to a 15% adoption increase; at Yacht Labs, they designed and implemented high-polish React/Next.js experiences and proposed a spec-driven app generation system to make AI output more controllable and trustworthy.”

Sam McKenzie

Screened

Mid-level Business Operations & FP&A professional specializing in RevOps automation and GTM strategy

Remote7y exp

“At BuildZoom, led cross-functional alignment to launch a new product (Data Explorer) and grew it from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 12 months. Leverages analytics and BI tooling (HubSpot, Looker, Tableau, Sisense) to build executive dashboards and drive strategic decisions, including redesigning sales incentives to emphasize recurring revenue.”

“Product leader focused on AI-powered, human-centered platforms, including a holistic support product for young female athletes in underserved communities. Has worked across startups and large enterprises on multimodal AI, predictive workflows, and commerce platforms, with experience building teams and shaping products around both user trust and measurable business outcomes.”

Maziyar Karimian

Screened

Director-level product strategist specializing in AI-native and design-first digital products

New York, NY13y exp

“Product and strategy leader spanning NBCUniversal, Peloton, ustwo, AKQA, and PowerSchool, with a rare mix of AI product execution, gamified consumer product design, and human-centered education strategy. Led NBCUniversal's Claude-powered Atlas platform and helped shape Peloton's Lanebreak UX, combining strong governance-minded AI judgment with proven user-centered product outcomes at scale.”

Jiayi Huang

Screened

Junior Product/UX Designer specializing in FinTech and conversational AI

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Founding product designer at a startup building RealSpend, an AI-powered fintech product centered on conversational decision support (contextual insights and in-flow actions). Also designed the companion app for Lasso Loop, an in-home recycling appliance, translating an industrial process into a warm, kitchen-friendly UX using layered information architecture and progressive disclosure, with strong design-system alignment to React/Tailwind/Ant Design engineering stacks.”

Joseph Villanueva

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and Healthcare IT

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Product-minded software engineer from Gusto who has shipped internal AI agent capabilities and end-to-end user-facing features across frontend and backend. Stands out for making pragmatic architecture tradeoffs—moving from OpenAI prototypes to deterministic systems when accuracy, latency, and uptime mattered—while still improving LLM workflow quality and reducing tool-calling errors by 15%.”

Clifton Gilley

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in product management and Agile transformation

Remote, USA25y exp

“Veteran product leader with roughly 20 years of experience spanning legal tech, higher education, and enterprise software, including early AI/ML applications in e-discovery at massive scale. Unusually combines product leadership with a background in law, psychology, and sociology, giving him strong domain empathy and a human-centered approach to UX, AI, and organizational transformation.”

“Analytics-to-product leader who has repeatedly turned messy, high-stakes data problems into scalable business outcomes—from modernizing American Express merchant risk scoring to helping build Meesho's influencer commerce channel into a meaningful revenue driver. Currently prototyping an enterprise GenAI platform for Sikich, where they shaped the architecture, privacy controls, and deployment standards for AI on sensitive client documents.”

“Software engineer intern at Nutanix who independently shipped and maintained an internal smoke-test/failure-analysis dashboard, integrating failure data from multiple upstream systems (e.g., Jira, Jenkins, CircleCI) via REST APIs. Also has prior data-science experience building Postgres-based asset management analytics with automated reporting and indexing for faster time-series retrieval.”

“Summer SDE intern at AWS who built and deployed a column-lineage debugging tool for on-call engineers, using AWS Bedrock to parse SQL and generate a column DAG. Integrated the tool into an existing validation system and hardened it against real-world SQL format differences via flexible parsing and testing with queries from multiple upstream teams.”