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Mayda Saldana

Executive Chief of Staff and Business Operations leader in high-growth global SaaS

MA-AT ConsultingSmith CollegeNew York City, NY14 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks On-Site

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Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.

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Key Strengths

  • Chief of Staff experience at two startups (DataDome, Onna) including founding-team scaling to 200+ global employees
  • Built and ran company operating rhythms (weekly exec meetings, MBRs, QBRs, annual planning) to maintain executive alignment
  • Led annual/quarterly planning to define top 3–5 company priorities with clear success criteria and cascaded to teams/ICs
  • Partnered with Finance to build dashboards/reporting for real-time visibility into priority progress
  • Enabled transition from single-product to multi-product platform; improved retention and supported entry into new markets
  • Drove PLG transformation (sales-led to product-led) by aligning exec strategy and building operational foundations (workflows, KPIs, activation signals)
  • Data-driven product portfolio decisions, including sunsetting underperforming products based on pre-defined success criteria
  • Managed fundraising from Seed through Series B while coordinating execs and outside counsel with high discretion

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Experience

Founder / PrincipalMA-AT Consulting · Oct 2025 – Presentfreelance
Chief of StaffDataDome · Jul 2023 – Jul 2025
Chief of StaffOnna Technologies · Oct 2020 – Feb 2023
Co-Founder & Director, Business OperationsOnna Technologies · May 2015 – Oct 2020
Business Development CoordinatorE-STET · Jul 2012 – May 2015
Research AssistantControl Risks · Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Legal Assistant and InterpreterZuber Lawler · Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Overseas Markets AnalystHyundai Capital · Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
InterpreterThe United Nations · Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Secretary and Board Member and Chair of Membership CommitteeSmith College Club of New York City · Jul 2024 – Presentpart-time
FellowOn Deck · Jan 2022 – Jan 2024part-time

Education

Smith Collegebachelor, Government and French Studies (2010)

Awards

  • Dean’s List (2007-2010) - Smith College
  • Julia Mayrani Rees Simonds '95 France Internship Fund (2009) - Smith College

Languages

EnglishSpanishFrenchPortuguese

Certifications

International Relations - The Graduate Institute of Geneva

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Mayda SaldanaExecutive Chief of Staff and Business Operations leader in high-growth global SaaS