Yael Schuster-Davidi

Product @ Microsoft

Israel

About

In the past 15 years, I’ve completed three scientific degrees and worked in a wide range of industries at implementation and management levels. I've built dozens of products from scratch, created and implemented IP strategies, worked with products and customers in low-tech and high-tech industries, and built long-lasting relationships between any stakeholders involved: employees, management, products, and users. 
I'm a visionary entrepreneur who blends strong analytical and scientific skills, outstanding creativity, and cross-functional experience in Strategy, Product, Execution, Leadership, Technology, Business Development, and Team Development. 

Fluent in Hebrew and English.
 An exceptional autodidact, an amateur unicycler, and an avid hiker.

Experience

  • Microsoft (Full-time · 6 yrs 4 mos)
    • Product Manager
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Technical Writer
      Mar 2020 - Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Co-Founder, CTO, Product Development, Product Strategy at StellarNova
    2015 - Sep 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    You name it, I did it. Inventing products, building relationships and infrastructures - creating a startup from nothing is a multi-disciplinary feat in creativity and grit. • Created partnership with *SpaceIL*, in which I developed commercial educational products from ideation to shipping thousands of units within a span of 5 months • First place winner, MassChallenge Startup Accelerator Competition (300K NIS prize) • Recruitment and management of 8-person team

  • Weizmann Institute of Science (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Laboratory Manager
      Aug 2013 - May 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Laboratory manager working with Dr. Itay Halevy in the field of geochemistry

    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Aug 2012 - Aug 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Worked in the field of nanoparticles, organic chemistry, chemistry in confined spaces

  • Lecturer and TA at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    Oct 2006 - Aug 2012 · 5 yrs 11 mos

    Lecturer in General and Organic Chemistry for the International School of Engineering Laboratory TA in Organic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry

  • Patent Attorney Trainee at Ehrlich & Fenster
    Jun 2011 - May 2012 · 1 yr

    Drafting and examination of patents in Israel and abroad (US, EU, Australia, China)