Sam Davies

MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Investment Strategy & Operations Manager at Principium Capital Partners
    2025 - 2026 · 1 yr

    • Executed $300k capital mobilization within 48 hours for OpenAI's oversubscribed $500B valuation share sale, securing allocation in history's largest AI funding round. • Managed AI, SaaS, and SAF fund operations across North America and EMEA, supporting due diligence for Databricks' $500M Series I, Enable's $94M Series C, and Nordic Electrofuel's pre-€40M EU award investment. • Facilitated capital allocation across Ramp ($15M), Mercor ($30M), and Nayya Health ($11M) Series A rounds. • Built KPI dashboards and led QBRs, streamlining reporting 50% while refining investment criteria and portfolio diversification. • Conducted market analyses on SAF and enterprise software, shaping three investment theses and term-sheet structures.

  • Intuit Mailchimp ()
    • Staff Business Operations Manager
      2024 - 2025 · 1 yr

      • Managed the sunsetting of Mailchimp’s Postcards service, saving over $3.3MM with no churn in high-value accounts. • Established the quarterly All Teams Program, engaging 650+ global employees. • Launched the Product Health Dashboard, reducing critical issues by 20%. • Developed and manager Mailchimp’s Sunsetting Program, enhancing operational efficiency.

    • Senior Product Operations Manager
      2024 - 2024 · Less than a year

      • Accelerated CI/CD delivery by 30% through infrastructure automation, reducing time-to-market for key product releases. • Implemented OKR-aligned governance across 15+ teams, fostering accountability and increasing feature launch velocity.

  • Product Operations Manager at Unqork
    2021 - 2023 · 2 yrs

    • Led Unqork's Product Strategy with data storytelling to define strategic roadmap items and increase engagement. • Managed Product Intelligence Program to enhance efficiency and impact. • Established structured product feedback loops and synthesized insights for over 1,000 quarterly analyzed Product Insights.

  • Product Strategy Program Manager at Yext
    2019 - 2021 · 2 yrs

    • Facilitated the creation and rollout of Yext Solutions across Three Primary Verticals, each inclusive of 4 Solutions in a Bundle. • Managed operations for the creation of Yext's CPG & DTC verticals, increasing Yext's Total Addressable Market (TAM) by $1.5M+. • Conducted initial industry research and maintained stakeholder items for the creation of Yext's Pharmaceuticals vertical.

  • Product Analyst at McMaster-Carr
    2018 - 2019 · 1 yr

    • Led initiatives to enhance company branded merchandising strategy by auditing customer facing assets and identifying product offering gaps. • Analyzed Customer Experience against industry competitors to reduce customer bounce rate. • Utilized Neo4j to evaluate eCommerce presence through interactions data analysis.