Srivats Sivanandan
Principal Product Manager at Guild Education
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Investor and Advisor
2019 - Current
Advising fintech and B2B SaaS businesses in their search for product market fit. I'm excited about tech helping make housing, education, healthcare, transportation, jobs, and financial services more accessible/affordable/efficient
Founding Angel Squad Member
2021
Founding Member. Investing with the Hustle Fund syndicate.
Principal Product Manager
2023
Single threaded leader defining and driving product strategy and execution towards a north-star of a best in class benefit administration platform loved by enterprise customers. Directing work across five+ engineering/design teams and a cross-functional working group of twenty associates from Sales, Marketing, and Ops.
Principal Product Manager
2021 - 2023
Embedding fintech in proptech
Flyhomes provides a real estate brokerage platform that helps clients through the entire home buying process.
Raised $310,000,000.00 from Canvas Ventures, Parker89, Vesta Ventures, Fifth Wall, BAM Elevate, Spencer Rascoff, Battery Ventures, Camber Creek, Balyasny Asset Management and Andreessen Horowitz.
Mentor
2021 - 2021
Mentor early-stage founders and founding team members
Fellow
2021 - 2021
Founding member of the fintech fellowship at On Deck. ODFIN1
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Director, Head of Product Growth and Operations
2019 - 2021
This was a zero to one entrepreneurship through acquisition experience. I was responsible for the velocity of the business. As a leader, I decided where to lay the train tracks (direction) and as a general manager, I worked with my team to ensure that the trains run on time (speed).
ShareBuilder 401k offers investment advice and financial services.
Senior Group Product Manager
2016 - 2019
Built and scaled a growth platform that supported onboarding, invoicing, and payment features for SMBs across the US. Led the creation of a pricing service that automatically adjusted pricing for at-risk customers by leveraging contribution margin data.
Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Raised $954,000,000.00 from Berkshire Hathaway.
Instock Manager
2013 - 2016
I worked to ensure that the customer experience while shopping on Amazon mimics searching for info on Google, except our customers are looking for physical products.
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Product Analyst
2011 - 2013
I developed data analysis tools and techniques to provide decision support to senior management. My role was also instrumental in performing competitive analysis and seeking out the voice of customers to determine where to invest to unlock higher satisfaction levels.