Peter Spannagle
Hypergrowth at unicorn startups / solutions at scale for global brands
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Product leader and AI builder with a 15-year track record of driving growth for startups and global brands.
Background includes: front-end engineering, design leadership, and full-life-cycle product management. I help cross-functional teams achieve business goals by working across strategy and execution to deliver solutions that create real customer value. Proven success with 0-1, hypergrowth, and impact at scale.
AI experience includes: increased ML usage 10X at Meta with explainable AI, led NLP chatbot design for 20M Samsung users, solo-built full-stack AI products for PMs (LLM pipelines with RAG, HITL, evals, and CI/CD).
Experience
Full-stack AI development at Narrata (2026-01 – Present)
End-to-end design, build, and deployment of LLM-powered products
- Designed multi-stage LLM pipeline with retrieval-augmented generation, HITL, and output validation
- Built evaluation dashboard and CI/CD pipeline for continuous quality monitoring
- Shipped to 500+ users across 20+ countries; pivoted based on user feedback and market signal
Startup Co-Founder at SpatialThink (2021-09 – 2025-12)
No-code interactive 3D simulations for infrastructure and energy: Web, Mobile, AR & VR
- Led end-to-end product strategy and GTM for intuitive mixed reality product
- Drove 6 figures in revenue and onboarded 100+ Enterprise users
- Managed a high-performing team of 6: product, sales and customer success
VP of Product at Enact Systems Inc. (2022-04 – 2024-01)
Led a cross-functional team of 8 from 0-1 to improve solar ownership | Series A management team
- Conducted 30+ user interviews and statewide survey to define value props and features that increased Monthly Active Users 210% and improved activation rate to 50%
- Implemented product-led-growth strategy (beta testing, behavioral analytics, in-app guides & cross-channel notifications) to boost retention: +620% Visitors | +876% events | +853% time spent in app
- Drove 169% revenue growth via SaaS, transactions and white label: 7% referral rate | +567% referrals
Senior Product Manager at Aurora Solar (2019-06 – 2021-09)
First product hire for industry-leading solar SaaS | Series A to C | 2X YoY revenue | 10X team
- Platform rebuild: introduced unified roadmap to accelerate feature delivery and streamline cross-functional execution, aligning engineering, design, customer success and product marketing
- Led critical investments to modernize launch and onboarding (phased rollout for target segments, personalization, guides and surveys) to de-risk adoption and reduce time-to-market
- Introduced design sprints, prototype testing and automated bug reporting to enhance product quality
Product Lead | Product Strategist | Head of Design [Consulting] at Meta | Salesforce | FalconX (2017-11 – 2019-05)
2.5 years consulting for startups and enterprise companies
- Meta: Drove 10X increase in adoption of AI/ML tools for recruiting. achieving 130% growth in 30 days
- FalconX: Designed and validated v1 product for $8B blockchain-based financial platform
- Salesforce: Developed mobile-first strategy & cross-functional alignment to improve UX for 3.5M users
Senior Manager at Samsung Research America (2016-06 – 2017-11)
Product leader for Samsung+ mobile app, improving the US customer experience for 20m users
- Rebuilt flagship product for customer support with video chat, SMS and diagnostics: 160% growth in MAUs | 200% increase in engagement | boosting Google Play Store rating from 3.7 to 4.3
- Intelligent agent: led end-to-end chatbot design using ML, NLP and Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning to provide 24/7 support, increase first-time resolution and reduce operational costs
- Led self-service strategy: increased engagement by 3X with self-service support content and drove 12X engagement with Community for peer-based support
Front End Developer | Senior UX + Interaction Designer | Principal UX Architect at Blue Shield of California | NCC Group | Etops AG | Mobiquity (2011-09 – 2016-05)
4+ years user interface and user experience design for startups and enterprise companies
- Led user-centered design and user research to resolve complex B2B and B2C workflows
Agency Founder [Consulting] at YCB: Web Development (2006-08 – 2011-08)
Web 2.0 / creative services for customers in the Bay Area, California, US and worldwide
- Software engineering (HTML, CSS and PHP) | UX design | #1 page rank for "WordPress consultant"
Nonprofit Founder at Oakland Artists Inc (2002-01 – 2006-07)
Engineered a local "gig economy" platform to connect creatives with paid opportunities | 401(c)3
- Created hundreds of jobs via a marketplace that linked artists, individuals, businesses and nonprofits

