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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

  • Mentor

    2021 - 2021

    Mentor early-stage founders and founding team members

  • Fellow

    2021 - 2021

    Founding member of the fintech fellowship at On Deck. ODFIN1

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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