I'm a Product Manager with a diverse background in marketing and sales. I launched product features in saas and marketplace to drive business results.
Product Management
Product Development
AI Product Management
Product Development Life Cycle
UserTesting
User Acceptance Testing
User Stories
Chinese to English Translation
Product Testing
Digital Marketing
Paniz T.
Los Angeles, California
$85/hr
5.0
3 jobs
I'm a Senior Product Manager and Product Owner specializing in AI-driven products. Currently AI Product Owner at a smart-tourism startup, where I own the full product roadmap end-to-end, run sprint planning and engineering ceremonies, define LLM and RAG feature requirements, and ship production AI features across leading frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Before that, I led national-scale AI platform delivery and project management for Egypt's Ministry of Higher Education across 27 universities, including an adaptive AI tutor, a RAG-powered research platform built on the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, and a K-12 AI assessment platform. I owned the AI Solutions Nano Courses program end-to-end: 5,000+ registrations, 2,000+ live participants, and 4 multilingual onboarding webinars.
What I help clients with:
• Product Management and Product Ownership: Roadmaps, PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint planning, backlog grooming, stakeholder alignment, and measurable success metrics
• AI product strategy: Translate ambiguous founder or exec vision into prioritized roadmaps tied to business outcomes
• LLM evaluation and selection: Compare frontier models on cost, latency, output quality, and context limits before you commit engineering hours
• RAG and agentic systems: Design retrieval architecture, prompt strategies, and agent workflows that actually ship rather than stalling in proof-of-concept purgatory
• Project management across teams — Run cross-functional delivery in Jira, Trello, Smartsheet, Asana, and Monday platforms; concurrent multi-client and multi-program execution without quality slipping
• Rapid prototyping with modern AI-first tooling(like v0 or Lovable): Validate product ideas in days, not sprints; replace static mockups in stakeholder reviews with live, deployable prototypes
• EdTech and B2G delivery: Multi-institution rollouts, adoption programs for non-technical educators, and stakeholder dynamics that make government contracts work
My background also includes Lean Six Sigma at Medtronic on FDA-regulated production lines, and CEO experience taking a 200+ person organization from operating losses to 15% profitability. So when I say outcomes over demos, I mean it from both an engineering-discipline and a P&L perspective.
Best fit: founders shipping their first AI feature, EdTech teams scaling LLM-powered learning, product leaders who need a senior PM partner to take an idea from "we should try AI" to a working product, or organizations that need a Product Owner who can also run the project management discipline behind delivery.
I'm available in the ET and CET time zones; I'm a US citizen, open to travel, and available immediately.
Send a message and let's talk about what you're trying to build.
Product Management
Project Management
Management Consulting
AI Agent Development
Automation
Business Development
Digital Marketing
David B.
Wister, Oklahoma
$35/hr
5.0
1 jobs
I’m a PMP‑certified Technical Project Manager with experience leading cross‑functional teams, managing complex technical initiatives, and delivering predictable outcomes across cloud, API, and integration projects. I specialize in bringing clarity, structure, and communication to fast‑moving environments.
My approach blends strong delivery leadership with enough technical depth to understand architecture, API workflows, and cloud constraints — ensuring decisions are grounded in reality, not assumptions.
Strengths I bring to your team:
- Clear project plans, timelines, and communication
- Technical understanding of APIs, auth flows, and cloud environments
- Cross‑team coordination (engineering, QA, product, leadership)
- Risk management + proactive problem solving
- Calm, predictable execution with async updates
If you need someone who can keep your project organized, aligned, and moving forward, I’d be glad to support you.
Project Management
Requirement Analysis
SQL
Agile Project Management
Product Lifecycle Management Software
Business Development
User Experience
Business Analysis
Data Analysis
Jira
Technical Project Management
Backlog Grooming
Power Query
Microsoft Azure
AWS Development
Nick M.
Los Angeles, California
$150/hr
4.6
62 jobs
As a senior software engineer and architect, I have over 25 years experience partnering with businesses to transform their ideas into functional software products. I excel at software engineering, software architecture design and planning, leading development teams, writing technical specifications, and designing user interfaces and experiences.
My work spans development of both enterprise and consumer applications with a focus on artificial intelligence, e-commerce and online payments, iOS and Android applications, API integrations, hardware integrations, server administration, automations, content management, web development, and SEO - all with an emphasis on exceptional design.
I understand the importance of striking a balance between timeline, budget and feature set when designing and phasing a project, ensuring it works realistically within a business’ constraints. My communication style is clear, concise and transparent. When you hire me, you gain a team player that takes full ownership of his assignments and is guided by a relentless work ethic. I am proactive in looking ahead for potential issues and opportunities, and provide these insights as continuous feedback to stakeholders.
While I am eager to discuss projects both large and small, simple and complex, covering a wide range of disciplines, below is a list of areas where I have deep expertise:
Artificial Intelligence
Extensive experience implementing AI technologies, including custom AI agents, conversational chatbots, recommendation engines, automated decision-making, predictive analytics, personalized user interactions, and content analysis/generation. Skilled in prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and building hybrid systems combining multiple AI models with traditional software components. Proficient in integrating frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. I maintain expert knowledge of current and forthcoming offerings, enabling me to guide clients in selecting services that deliver optimal output at economical costs.
API Integration
Deep expertise building secure, efficient, and well-documented API integrations, including RESTful, GraphQL, legacy services (SOAP, XML-RPC), OAuth and other authentication protocols, and real-time data synchronization. My integration experience includes: Stripe, Plaid, Square, Twilio, SendGrid, Slack, Google/Bing/Meta Ads, Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Google Docs/Sheets/Drive, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Hootsuite, Monday.com, Quickbase, Teamwork, Asana, Quickbooks, NetSuite, Zendesk, Freshdesk, Intercom, DocuSign, Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Segment, Google Maps, Mapbox, and more.
DevOps and Server Administration
Twenty years experience in setup, migration, and maintenance of Unix/Linux hosting environments, including 15 years managing AWS infrastructure as well as Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, Cloudflare, and others. Skilled in optimizing performance, ensuring availability, load balancing, security hardening, automated deployments, monitoring and alerting systems, and maintenance automation. Thrives during emergency situations and catastrophic failures under extreme pressure.
E-commerce
I’ve developed custom e-commerce offerings that have processed over a billion dollars in transactions. Functionality has included payment processing integrations, bi-directional third-party inventory management and POS integrations, fulfillment pipelines, subscription services, and high volume architectures processing thousands of orders per minute.
Android & iOS Development
Ten years of experience building native and non-native Android & iOS apps and supporting API suites with hundreds of App Store and Google Play submissions. Feature sets include e-commerce, push notifications, user authentication, location services, deep linking, barcode scanning, and Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons.
Cannabis Tech
Fourteen years experience developing software for cannabis dispensaries and MSOs, including online ordering, in-store kiosks, in-store TV menus, and Android/iOS apps. Expert knowledge integrating with cannabis POS platforms and APIs, including Dutchie POS (formerly LeafLogix) and Dutchie Plus, Jane POS and Jane Roots, Treez, BioTrack, Greenbits, Blaze, Flowhub and MJ Platform, as well as delivery logistics platforms like Onfleet and Detrack. Subject matter expert on Android and iOS apps for dispensaries, having submitted more dispensary apps than any other developer in the world.
Fractional CTO & Consulting
Apart from software development, I also offer fractional CTO services as well as consultation services to businesses during the idea conception, planning, and pre-production phases of their software projects. This can include product design, strategic planning, technical feasibility analysis, market research, risk assessment, budgeting and cost estimation, project scoping, workflow design, team structure and roles, RFP creation and management, and vendor selection and staffing.
Product Management
Project Management
Android App Development
iOS Development
AWS Application
Web Development
UI/UX Prototyping
Wireframe & Prototyping Software
Ecommerce
WordPress
Team Management
API
Database
Squarespace
Shopify
Patrick A.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
$75/hr
5.0
1 jobs
I am a Senior Product Designer and Product Manager with over a decade of experience in creating award-winning software and hardware products. My expertise spans the entire product lifecycle, from strategic roadmap planning to hands-on UX design. I excel in delivering user-centric workflows that are informed by rigorous user research while ensuring alignment with cross-functional teams, including engineering and go-to-market efforts. I have a proven track record of driving industry-recognized product launches and enhancing sound quality through collaborative efforts with technical teams. If you seek a designer who can balance innovation, stability, and growth while influencing stakeholders effectively, let’s connect and discuss how I can elevate your project.
Product Backlog
Product Development
Music Production
Audio Editing
Audio & Music Software
Audio Engine
Audio Production
Audio Restoration
Sound Design
Sound Synthesis
Product Concept
Hugo D.
Brownsville, Texas
$35/hr
5.0
12 jobs
Qualifications:
● BA in Business Management from The University of Texas at Brownsville
● 5 Years Product Manager experience developing mobile apps using Agile methodology.
● 3 Years Scrum Product Owner experience managing backlogs and participating in a SCRUM team
● 6 years experience working remotely maintaining high levels of productivity with little oversight.
● 10+ years of management experience in a wide range of industries; Tech, Manufacturing, Education, Service.
● 4+ years entrepreneurial experience managing all facets of running a business.
● 100% bilingual (English/Spanish).
Skills:
● Agile Methodologies / Scaled Agile (SAFe)
● Scrum Framework
● Product Backlog Management
● Sprint Planning
● Stakeholder Collaboration
● User Story Definition
● UX/UI Design
● Jira, Figma, Miro, Balsamiq, Confluence, Basecamp, Trello, Slack
Project Management
English
Bilingual Education
Business Management
Accounting Basics
Microsoft Excel
Office Administration
Design Thinking
Microsoft Office
Writing
User Experience Design
Agile Project Management
Business Writing
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