San Francisco Bay Area
As a tech leader for high performing teams, I bring 20+ years of deep technical and UX vision, strategy and execution experience, as well as high stakes stakeholder engagement and cultural team transformation experience. I have a unique blend of planet scale and entrepreneurial experience to identify scrappy, yet effective, growth strategies in building and driving growth of brand new and established products such as Google Cloud Marketplace, Dropbox Paper, Microsoft StaffHub, Microsoft Outlook, Windows 8, Live@edu and Office Live Workspace. I specialize in driving long term vision and strategy, ruthless prioritization and strong roadmap execution, resulting in multi-million dollar businesses. I leverage my strong empathy and storytelling to build and grow high performing and motivated teams. I have driven innovation in product, landing industry first product innovations for collaboration, cloud products, AI and Marketplaces with particular expertise in scaling 0->1 ideas and teams, CEO-level strategic alignment, product pivots and positioning, foundational user research, intuitive Design and development. Currently, I am Chief Product Officer at When I Work, an hourly worker scheduling product suite, which had secured a $200M growth investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities (2021). I stepped up as Interim CTO, as the GM across PM, Design, and Engineering and work closely with C-Suite and the Board to ensure the right business outcomes. • At Microsoft, I led the early team that launched Microsoft Staffhub, scheduling and team communication for hourly workers, a first for Microsoft. At Dropbox, I led the global launch of Dropbox Paper, a critical element in Dropbox's IPO story of expanding into collaboration beyond file syncing. Drove design thinking from first principles to differentiate and launch, with a successful IPO in 2018. • At Google, I led the pivot for The Google Cloud Marketplace away from a developer focused product to becoming the primary way cloud companies procured cloud software . Seen as the "co-founder" of Marketplace, launching several new categories, such as AI and Data, delivering $1B+ of transacted revenue in just 3 years. Rapidly promoted twice in just 3 years and selected for 2023 PM Leadership for a small 35 person cohort across thousands of eligible PMs. • I am a sought-after industry expert, conducting 70+ engagements as a panelist, honoree, and moderator and writer, with expertise on Product Management, Team Leadership and Mentorship. Co-founded Aurora, the first community for exec woman leaders at Google.
Launched AI Skills Navigator, Microsoft's agentic learning space for skilling the world's workforce. http://aiskillsnavigator.microsoft.com Lead the Learning Product teams bringing together engineering, product management, release, program management, reporting, UX, design, operations, security, and support of Microsoft’s skilling products. These products have world wide impact targeting Microsoft’s customers, partners, and employees and enhancing the learning experiences with AI
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When I Work is the small business market leader in scheduling, time clocks and payroll for shift based workers driving $xxm ARR. As Chief Product Officer at When I Work, I am responsible for leading multiple Product and Design teams to deliver the web and mobile apps. I also own the Product Strategy, Product design and business models needed to pivot the org for a strong PLG motion.
In addition to the CPO responsibilities, I had stepped into the role of Interim Chief Technology Officer with 75+ org of Product, Design, Engineering teams, Architects, QA and release management reporting up to me. In this role, I own execution and delivery of our product roadmap across web and mobile platforms.
Led multiple product teams for Google Cloud Marketplace, growing the partner ecosystem and driving enterprise use of 1st and 3rd party products globally. Under my leadership, the Marketplace grew 100x from transacting low millions to a billion dollar business, accelerating revenue growth and reach for Google Cloud. Launched the channel program for Marketplace products, driving multi-million dollar deals for Google. Drove vision and strategy for AI Marketplace with Vertex integration for 1st and 3rd party LLMs, e.g. Gemini Pro, Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet. Drove vision, strategy and launched Data Marketplace, a first for Google, for 1st and 3rd party free and paid providers e.g. Dun & Bradstreet, COVID-19 datasets Co-founder, Aurora- a community for executive women leaders in Tech, Google Cloud
- Driving strategy, vision and go to market plans for Dropbox Paper, a tool designed to accelerate creativity on teams. - Leading the product management team at Dropbox Paper and growing PM excellence - Working closely with my engineering and design peers to double digit growth of Paper within our target audience - Under my lead, Paper was taken out of Beta in January, launched new iOS and Android mobile apps and has had millions of docs created within Paper. - Spokesperson for marketing and press interviews for Paper and main POC for strategic partnerships outside of Dropbox