Associate Product Manager - Starboard
(2026-01)
Driving product strategy, delivery, and client success for an AI-powered quoting and management platform
- Owns sprint management and end-to-end roadmap execution; improved sprint cycle time by 9x within the first 90 days
- Authors user stories, PRDs, and UI/UX requirements to translate business needs and user research into engineering-ready specs
- Leads client-facing demos, onboarding implementations, and post-launch training for 8+ freight forwarder clients, ensuring smooth adoption and sustained product engagement
- Performs hands-on product QA across new feature builds and releases, maintaining quality standards and validating functionality
Associate Product Manager - Glossbird
(2025-01 - 2026-01)
Data analysis and user research to inform product development decisions for gamification consulting clients
- Conducted user research and requirements gathering with clients to define product specifications and prioritize feature development for gamification consulting engagements
- Collaborated with UX researchers and engineering teams to deliver product iterations using Agile methodologies, ensuring solutions meet user needs
- Developed go-to-market strategy including Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) definition and competitive positioning
Senior Research Associate I - Nkarta Therapeutics
(2022-01 - 2025-01)
Led product strategy and implementation for laboratory data management systems
- Owned end-to-end product implementation of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for 50+ scientific users, managing product roadmap, requirements prioritization, and feature rollout across preclinical drug development programs
- Conducted extensive user research with R&D scientists to map current-state workflows, identify pain points, and design future-state product solutions that unified data across multiple cell therapy studies
- Drove product adoption and optimization post-launch by collecting user feedback, analyzing usage patterns, defining product enhancements with engineering teams, and achieving 50% improvement in operational efficiency
Lab Manager - University of California, Irvine
(2018-01 - 2021-01)
Directed lab operations to enhance productivity and workflow efficiency
- Optimized workflows across five concurrent research projects, improving operational efficiency and enabling scalable lab processes
- Led cross-functional teams of scientists and technicians to standardize procedures and implement quality systems, ensuring consistency and compliance
