Maryanna Quigless
Director, Product Management at Meta
Maryanna Quigless
Director, Product Management at Meta
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director of Product Management
2016 - Current
I am the Product Lead for Instagram Direct Messaging. My teams support asynchronous messaging, real time calling, notifications, expression, and more to help drive more meaningful connections. Previously I was a founder within Meta Inc's internal incubator (New Product Experimentation - NPE team.) My team's work was focused on teen community engagement. Prior to NPE, I led the Ads Manager org at Meta. This consists of the five teams responsible for core ads creation (>$50Bn in revenue), value delivery, navigation, management, and new product development for Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Marketplace platforms. Work has been featured in Forbes (and other publications) as examples of how FB helps small businesses and drives high ROI campaigns for growing companies. Built features to support high-density analytics, automated actions, notif schema, internationalization, etc. Developed back-end eng to enable API migrations, unit/ scenario based testing, and to improve mobile app performance. Manage engineers and cross-function professionals (research, content, marketing) who help advertisers to connect with their customers every day through desktop and mobile. Awarded two patents for work on mobile interfaces.
Co-Founder and Board Member
2016
Co-founder of the 501c3, Black Product Manager organization. Focused on helping to diversify the tech industry and improve product outcomes by providing support, community, and opportunity to under-represented minority product leaders.
Angel Investor
2017
CEO and Founder
2013 - 2015
Superhuman Mobile is the workflow automation app for independent professionals. For fitness trainers, executive coaches, tutors, and more - we help pros earn more and deliver better results for clients. - Tackling $15Bn pain-point for independent service professionals - Led ideation, product testing, and development for a) services marketplace and b) test and back-office application for fitness trainers - Worked with design team, from low resolution flows to high-res implementation designs. Used Balsamiq, Sketch, Photoshop, and Illustrator. - Worked with engineering team to manage sprints via agile processes, key platform decisions, analytics, issue handling, and recruiting - Generated following of over 600 exercisers and over 1,000 user sessions - Coded web applications to prototype solutions and generate real-world user feedback (HTML + LAMP stack) Notable accolades: Grand prize winner at the HP Mobile Enterprise Hackathon, 3rd place at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum
Business Development Fellow
2012 - 2012
Analyst
2009 - 2011
Associate
2007 - 2009
Education
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