Working With Me
I am a Product Manager who is passionate about solving problems with software by empathizing with customers, getting my hands dirty and collaborating with colleagues, then bringing products and features to market. I’ve been recognized as a top contributor throughout my career as someone who is always willing to jump in, figure things out and lead product changes to success. I thrive on authenticity, curiosity, leading-by-example and earning trust & respect.
Skills & Expertise
- Product Strategy – I prefer 1-2 page written product strategies, that can be expressed in a sentence to enable focus and prioritization, and which reveal how delivering value to customers will align with achieving business goals based on the the market, competitors, customer base, business goals and more.
- Roadmap Development – A quarterly product roadmap has proven to be an essential for building consensus amongst stakeholders for how to execute on product strategy. Generally, items should have a: theme, success metric, title, summary, rank, delivery and link to a half-pager — all encoded into a timeline that can fit on a slide. A slice of capacity should be fluid, but major changes within the quarter should not be the norm.
- Product Discovery – Starting with “why,” a thorough discovery phase for new products and large features has proven to be my force multiplier. It involves a case-by-case mix of exploring problems, opportunities, solutions, outcomes, designs, tradeoffs, risks and differentiation, distilling into a clear, concise multimodal document, then communicating and collaborating on it until consensus and co-ownership is built with stakeholders. No small feat!
- Building & Delivery – Bringing products and features to market is paramount and I get involved in the day to day to answer questions, be the first tester, create focus and clarity, prevent confusion, communicate progress and generally do whatever it takes.
- Data – I’ve been Data PM, implemented models in dbt, implemented views and explores in Looker, implemented visualizations in evidence.dev, written thousands of SQL queries.
- Hat Wearing – I’ve filled unofficial roles as product marketer, product support, product designer, product tester, product analyst, product architect and code committer. Often it’s been several of them concurrently!
- Tools I find it rewarding to eliminate friction, so good tools are essential. I am an expert in PM tools including: Workspace, JIRA, Slack, Figma, Notion, Confluence, Github, FullStory, Looker & LLMs. I also frequently turn to more general software and data tools including: Snowflake, dbt, Segment, Braze, Chameleon, DataDog, Airflow, AWS (esp Athena), Evidence.dev, Jupyter Lab & Stripe.
Testimonials & Endorsements
I had an opportunity to work directly with Nat as the acting product lead and advisor to his employer and was extremely impressed by Nat’s depth of knowledge about the company’s business as well as its tech stack and data model. He also helped launch multiple improvements that contributed to a very strong and crucial financial quarter. He won lots of recognition for his willingness to jump into any fire and help figure it out and get to the bottom of it and then see through the product changes to land a great result. The CTO gave him special recognition at an all-hands as a top contributor and it was well deserved.
Tom Leung, Former Google Product Leader
I want to take a moment and share a shout out to one of the unsung heroes from Product that have helped us immensely on the Attribution strike team.
Rob Post, CTO @ Howl
Nat you are the most technical Product Manager I have ever worked with. You are generous with your time, you’re quick to pull things together, you’re willing to help across the aisle, and you’re very humble and modest. I appreciate your insights, help and support helping the strike team over the past month.
You are the model employee for an early stage startup. You wear many hats and you have the get it done attitude.