Maya Patel Product Manager
San Francisco, CA • productmanager@gmail.com • +1 4155-2222
Profile Summary
- Product Manager with 9 years of experience shipping growth-stage SaaS products across design collaboration, productivity, and team workflows, specializing in continuous discovery, experimentation-led growth, and outcome-driven roadmapping.
- Hands-on across analytics (Amplitude, Mixpanel), experimentation (LaunchDarkly), design and prototyping (Figma), engineering trackers (Linear), roadmapping (ProductBoard), user research (Dovetail), documentation (Notion), and prioritization frameworks (RICE, jobs-to-be-done) with strong fundamentals in customer-obsessed thinking, sharp written communication, and outcome-over-output discipline.
- Deep expertise in continuous product discovery, outcome-driven roadmapping, experimentation-led growth, and end-to-end product ownership, leveraging methodologies such as dual-track agile and OKR-driven planning to drive products customers love and the business defends.
- Engaged collaborator working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data, Marketing, and Sales in outcome-oriented product organizations, contributing to executive review forums, customer councils, and post-launch retrospectives with a pragmatic, ownership-first mindset.
- Emerging leader who shares product craft and fosters a culture of evidence over opinion and written-narrative discipline through PRD reviews and discovery coaching, while leading PM craft and mentorship circles and authoring widely adopted PRD and discovery templates.
Tools & Skills
- Analytics & SQL:
- Amplitude, Mixpanel, Heap, GA4, Looker, Mode, SQL (intermediate), funnel and cohort analysis
- Design & Prototyping:
- Figma, FigJam, Miro, Sketch, low-fi wireframes, prototype-led discovery
- Experimentation & Feature Flags:
- LaunchDarkly, Statsig, Optimizely, Eppo, A/B testing, multi-variant testing, holdouts
- Engineering & PM Trackers:
- Linear, Jira, Asana, Shortcut, GitHub Projects, sprint and backlog management
- User Research:
- Dovetail, UserTesting, Maze, Lookback, customer interviews, JTBD discovery, surveys
- Documentation & Roadmapping:
- Notion, Confluence, Coda, Loom, ProductBoard, Aha!, PRDs, narratives, one-pagers
- Frameworks & Methodologies:
- RICE, MoSCoW, ICE, Kano, jobs-to-be-done, North Star, OKRs, opportunity sizing, dual-track agile
- Go-to-Market & Launch:
- Positioning, pricing, launch readiness, sales enablement, beta programs, adoption tracking
Education
Brown University
B.S. in Cognitive Science
Work Experience
Figma
Senior Product Manager
- Set product vision and multi-quarter strategy for the real-time design collaboration product serving 4M+ monthly active users, shaping multiplayer collaboration, design-system tooling, and enterprise admin and permissions across 3 squads, 24 engineers and designers.
- Ran the continuous customer research program via weekly customer interviews via Dovetail, competitive teardowns with sales-call evidence, and JTBD synthesis on top of usage data, reaching 180+ customers across 4 segments and reframed roadmap themes around 3 underserved jobs.
- Owned quarterly roadmap and prioritization via RICE scoring against North Star metric, opportunity sizing with finance and sales, and ruthless cuts via written trade-off memos, shipping 14 initiatives shipped per year and cut the backlog in half while doubling shipped scope.
- Built the continuous product discovery practice with Figma prototypes tested before engineering commit, usability rounds via UserTesting and Maze, and opportunity-solution-tree alignment with design, validating 22 hypotheses validated or killed before build and saving ~6 engineer-quarters of avoided rebuilds.
- Drove the experimentation and metrics program through LaunchDarkly-driven A/B tests on activation flows, cohort and funnel analysis in Amplitude, and KPI dashboards for weekly business reviews, shipping 38 experiments shipped and lifting the North Star metric from baseline to +24% activation.
- Led end-to-end launch execution across positioning and messaging with marketing, staged rollout with beta and design-partner waves, and sales enablement decks and adoption playbooks, shipping 6 major feature launches and reaching 62% reach in target segment within 60 days.
- Owned stakeholder communication and influence via six-page narratives for executive review, weekly demos to founders and customer councils, and async written updates over status meetings, reaching founder, exec, and customer-advisory forums and aligned 5 cross-functional leaders on the next-year strategy.
Asana
Product Manager
- Built the product requirements practice including PRDs with explicit problem statements and non-goals, user stories and acceptance criteria in Linear, and design and engineering reviews on every spec, authoring 40+ PRDs in 3 years and holding zero scope-driven re-do across the year.
- Drove cross-functional leadership without authority through weekly squad rituals across Eng, Design, and Data, conflict resolution via written trade-off docs, and legal, support, and marketing alignment ahead of launch, aligning 7 functions on a single roadmap and delivering zero launch slips on the 4 tier-one releases.
- Owned end-to-end product lifecycle ownership through 0→1 launch through growth and maturity stages, quarterly tech-debt and deprecation budget, and data-driven sunset of underperforming features, lifting engagement on owned surface from 32% WAU/MAU to 51% WAU/MAU and 9 underperforming features deprecated cleanly.
- Worked closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Marketing, and Support across 3 product surfaces to coordinate quarterly planning and OKR alignment, release readiness and risk reviews, and customer escalations and recovery plans, authoring 8 PM-process playbooks that shaped the org's product standard and onboarding 5 new PMs.