Executive Leader in Product Operations

Product Ops
for the AI Era.

I build the operating infrastructure that lets product organizations move with confidence — aligning roadmaps, KPIs, development progress, and product health through intelligent, automated workflows.

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Four critical inputs.
Four different places.

Product teams spend enormous time chasing information instead of acting on it.

Roadmap

Strategy & priorities

KPIs

Expected impact & timing

Product Health

Are we measuring right?

Dev Progress

What's shipping & when?

The result: Product Managers spend days each month manually aggregating context — and still present with gaps. Strategic decisions get made on stale data, misaligned signals, and competing versions of the deck.

One intelligent layer.
Multiple inputs. One source of truth.

An AI orchestration layer that continuously pulls, normalizes, synthesizes, and delivers structured insight — automatically, on cadence.

Roadmap
KPIs & Impact Targets
Dev Progress
Product Health
feeds

AI Orchestration Layer

Synthesize. Detect. Deliver.

Gaps  ·  Risks  ·  Drift  ·  Actions

delivered automatically

Output

Synthesized product health report → right people, right cadence, flagged actions included.

Agent workflow:
from source to signal.

Multiple steps. Fully automated. Stack-agnostic by design.

01

Pull

Agents poll source systems on a defined cadence — roadmap tools, PM trackers, data dashboards, health scorecards.

02

Normalize

Raw outputs are parsed, structured, and mapped to a common schema regardless of source format.

03

Synthesize

LLM layer identifies gaps, risks, drift from targets, and notable changes since last cycle.

04

Deliver

Structured summary pushed to shared surface — Slack, email digest, or live dashboard — with flagged actions.

Design principle: Stack-agnostic by intent. The pattern works regardless of which roadmap tool, project tracker, or data platform the org uses.

Measurable outcomes
across the product org.

The shift from reactive aggregation to proactive insight at any scale.

Roadmap Confidence

Leadership reviews start with shared, current-state context — not competing versions of the deck.

KPI Accountability

Impact targets linked to roadmap items. Variance from expected trajectory visible in real time.

Faster Escalation

Risks surface before the review — not during it. PMs spend time on decisions, not data gathering.

Engineering Alignment

Dev status becomes part of the product signal layer — not a separate conversation happening elsewhere.

PM Leverage

Freed from aggregation, PMs operate as strategic partners — not report compilers.

Scalable Cadence

Same architecture, different scope. Works for one team or twenty — no manual overhead added.

Built. Shipped. Running.

Operating infrastructure I've designed and implemented across product organizations: the evidence base behind the model.

Governance

Product Development Governance Framework

Built governance infrastructure from scratch: review board charter, decision escalation process, RAID log template, and full change management rollout plan across a multi-team product org.

Launch Readiness

Pipeline & Launch Readiness System

Designed ops-ready and sell-ready stage-gate frameworks covering 80+ launch criteria. Implemented across product and GTM teams with training decks and live checklists.

Planning

Quarterly Planning Framework

End-to-end quarterly planning process: from strategic intent to brainstorm facilitation to readout template. Includes retro integration loop and full process revamp methodology.

Operations

Product Operating Manual

Comprehensive team playbook covering how the product org runs — decision rights, operating cadences, communication standards, escalation paths, and meeting norms.

Governance

New Opportunity Assessment Process

Structured intake and scoring methodology for evaluating new product opportunities against strategic criteria, with a simplified executive view for CPO-level decisions.

Operations

Rhythm of Business

Operating calendar and standard meetings framework: exec reporting cadence, product review structure, planning cycles, and cross-functional sync design.

Built on systems thinking.
Measured in org velocity.

I'm an Executive Leader in Product Operations who builds Product Ops infrastructure from scratch in scaling organizations — operating models, governance cadences, health scorecards, planning processes, career ladders.

I serve as Chief of Staff to the CPO and take on adjacent functions — User Research, AI operationalization, org-wide operating models — when they need an operator who thinks in systems, not just executes tasks.

My value is turning Product Ops from a coordinator function into a strategic partner to the C-suite — through systems design, executive communication, and cross-functional influence without authority.

I don't just advise on AI in product. I'm actively building with it — and the operating model and the site you're reading are the same proof of concept.

0→1
Product Ops infrastructure built from scratch
CPO
Chief of Staff function — C-suite stakeholders served
Full
Stack
Governance · Planning · Launch · AI
AI‑Native
Not a future state — a current practice

This site was built
with Claude.

The operating model you just read isn't hypothetical. This website is the proof of concept.

The brief was written in conversation. Content was extracted from real work artifacts — decks, briefs, frameworks built over years of practice. The code was generated, reviewed, and refined through AI-assisted iteration using Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding tool.

From brief to deployed site: hours, not weeks. That's the leverage point. That's what it looks like when an operator puts AI in the workflow instead of just talking about it.

The thesis of the operating model and the method of building this site are the same thing: AI as a connective layer — not a replacement for expertise, but a multiplier of it.

Built with Claude Code by Anthropic
Claude Code — Session Excerpt
Dana: Using the PowerPoint we created, I want to build a website…
goals: show product ops + AI knowledge, and prove it by building the site with AI
Claude: Reading AI_First_Product_Operating_Model.pptx…
✓ Extracted 9 slides of content
✓ Scanned 80+ work artifacts
✓ Built site architecture
✓ Generated, QA'd, deployed
Dana: That's the point. Same thesis, same method.

The operating model is ready.
The technology is ready.

Product Ops just needs to lead it. If you're building a product organization that needs this kind of infrastructure — let's talk.