Angela Santurbano
Director at Cocoon
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director of Product Management
2022 - 2023
Hired and coached a team of autonomous PMs to build out an effortless leave experience for employees and HR teams. Combining internal tools and third party applications for People Ops and HR teams, Cocoon is building an integrated platform that streamlines processes while providing employees and leaders with information they need to manage leave. Cocoon has some world-class investors including Bill Trenchard at First Round and Mark Goldberg at Index Ventures
Next generation leave management software that automates the complexities of compliance, claims, and payroll.
Raised $25,500,000.00 from SemperVirens Venture Capital, Index Ventures, Springbank Collective, Magnify Ventures, First Round Capital and XYZ Venture Capital.
Product Management Lead
2021 - 2022
Innovating with spend management software for enterprise customers. * Led a team with ~50 cross functional partners (design, eng, data science, marketing, legal, partnerships) to launch our first international Spend product for global companies * Launched Empower, Brex's first spend management product, for enterprise companies, including DoorDash and Coinbase * Built out a reimbursement product on ACH payment rails with >$XXM in completed transactions, 6x volume within 12 months. Customers can now combine cards and reimbursements on a single platform * Revamped our interview process for PM evaluation to grow the product team Reference: https://www.brex.com/journal/a-world-where-value-can-be-created-from-everywhere
Brex Venture Debt is designed for early-stage, venture-backed technology companies.
Product Manager
2020 - 2021
Product manager on AI and workflow tools for the Finance team and VP of Financial Operations * Worked cross-functionally with internal finance team (~50 people) and our vendor team (~150 people) to manage how we operationalize finance workflows. Teams were based in Dublin, Singapore, Austin and Menlo Park * Led a team of 25 product managers, engineers, designers, UX researchers, and data scientists to build internal workflow tools to automate credit decisions using machine learning for~$50B credit lines across the product portfolio (WhatsApp,Instagram, etc.) and build meaningful decisioning frameworks to reduce fraud while increasing overall revenue opportunities, resulting in $XXM in savings and YY hours time saved.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Group Product Manager
2018 - 2020
Senior Product Manager
2017 - 2018
Head of Product for our general contractor product, managing a small team of PMs. * Built an end-to-end customer experience for general contractors from design to construction that was the source of >80% of company's revenue. * Evolved and built a more robust framework to lead our user research efforts for new product experimentation * Built out our initial product tools for general contractors to manage subcontractor bids, managing the bidding process and risk with subcontractors. * Explored, validated, and launched our estimating tool for general contractors to compare subcontractor bids and collaboratively choose the right contractor. Improved retention by X% and expanded our market from Fortune 500 to Fortune 100 companies within construction Acquired by Autodesk in December 2018
Investment Banking Analyst
2014 - 2016
* Built out financial models to project returns for investments and acquisition opportunities * Built out market research identifying unique insights for investments in the B2B SaaS and media sectors RBC Capital Markets: 2014-2015 (I supported companies in power, utilities & infrastructure with equity raises and M&A) Code Advisors: 2015-2016 (I supported media and tech companies in fundraising and sell-side opportunities)
Education
Bachelor of Science
2010 - 2013