# Elena Luneva > CPO & Advisor, Formerly CPO Braintrust, Nuna, GM Nextdoor, VP LiquidSpace Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/elenaluneva Hi, I am Elena. I am a CPO, Advisor, Executive Coach, and Educator I advise founders and executives on product strategy, execution, AI-enablement, go-to-market, leadership, and recruiting. I help product leaders advance their careers through courses and coaching. I help companies become more effective through corporate training and speaking engagements. Elena Luneva is a product and business leader who scales companies from an early stage through Scale-up and IPO. As the CPO at Braintrust, she transformed a talent marketplace into an AI-powered SaaS platform and talent community that serves 1.5 million professionals and generates $285 million in GSV. Previously, she built winning products, GTM, and teams as the CPO, GM and VP at companies including Nuna, Nextdoor, LiquidSpace, OpenTable, and BlackRock. Learn from me: My writing: https://elenasletters.substack.com My course: Develop CPO Level Skills https://maven.com/elena-luneva/business-impact Email me elit716 at gmail.com to chat about how we can work together. Open to corporate board opportunities. ## Work Experience ### Fractional CPO, Advisor, Corporate Trainer @ Elenetic Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area I advise companies on: ✔️Product Leadership & Strategy ✔️AI Product Development and Building AI Products ✔️Team Building & Scaling ✔️Growth Strategy ✔️ PLG ✔️ Marketplaces ✔️ Funnel Optimization ✔️GTM Corporate Training for Executives and Product Teams -AI Executive Presence -AI Enablement -AI Content Generation for Creators, Instructors, and Executives -Financial Acumen for Business Leaders -Go to Market strategy -Product Development systems Customers Include Madison Reed AirForce Envive.AI ### Partner: Executive Leadership @ Maven Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area - Course Creator and Teacher of Develop CPO-Level Skills. I teach Product Directors GTM, Financial Acumen, Executive Presence, Influence, and the AI Executive Stack so they can move into working on the business. - Featured in Maven Top 100, Leadership in the AI Era, and by Gagan, the CEO himself -Cohorts of satisfied students from Amazon, Ant, Nextdoor, Growth, and Startup companies globally -4.9 rating Join me in an upcoming cohort: https://maven.com/elena-luneva/business-impact Thousands of Students have learned with me in monthly deep dives: -The Executive AI Stack -Upgrade GTM with 4 Fits Model and AI -Elevate Your Executive Presence with AI -Build P&L Models That Win Executive Trust https://maven.com/elena-luneva ### Advisor @ NFX Jan 2017 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area NFX is a venture firm that works with startups on growth through network effects. I advise portfolio companies on network effects and other growth and monetization strategies. ### Chief Product Officer & General Manager @ Braintrust Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Built out the Product, Design, AI+Data, Engineering Teams across the Marketplace, Professional Social, AI, SaaS, and Growth Built and took to market the first AI Recruiter AIR Lead AI Enablement across Product and GTM Strategic recruiting transformation from fully manual to E2E AI: job description generation, screening, matching, and first interview. Company transformation from a jobs marketplace to a career network where talent earns, learns, and grows to AI SaaS recruiting platform. Hundreds of thousands of MAU getting help with career questions. Reduced time to fill 30%, and introduced the magic number of needing 16 good/great candidates to guarantee a fill. 90% of hires come from good or great matches Introduced Client Self-Serve, which led to a 10X increase in client signups. 300% YoY talent growth, with ~$450K yearly savings, network talent nearing 1.3 M. Defined and executed an AI SEO strategy that netted 4M search impressions. Interim CTO for distributed Engineering Teams, pre-hiring of chief Architect in '24. ### Co-Lead WIN: Women in the Neighborhood @ Nextdoor Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Co-Lead the Women In the Neighborhood (WIN) Employee Resource Group that strived to build a community that supports women and gender minorities (WGM) at Nextdoor. Through events, episode-based discussions, open spaces and mentorship up-lifted each other. ### Head of Product, Maps & Strategic Partnerships @ Nextdoor Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead from idea through delivery and monetization of a map-based navigation platform. Neighbors could discover local businesses, events, and deals around them. Built out the concept, business case and teams to power discover. Overhauled full cross-page navigation, which lead to 20% posting improvement as well as ad consumption and business joining. Worked with the partnerships team to generate $10M in revenue from existing surfaces with minimal engineering effort. ### Head of Product, General Manager Local Business Marketplace @ Nextdoor Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Built the local business vertical that generated 30% of Nextdoor's revenue at IPO. Built out 6 teams. Hired and enabled 6 product managers. Developed agile scaling mechanisms to ensure on-target E2E delivery and local business growth to over 1M businesses joining. Defined Vision and strategy for $XXXM vertical revenue. Lead the business vertical including reporting to the Executive team and Board of Directors. ### Chief Product Officer @ Nuna Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California Nuna’s mission is to increase accountability in the U.S. healthcare system through value-based care. We believe that everyone deserves access to quality care. Our work impacts over 130 million lives. I lead the product and design teams across the government, insurance, and employer verticals to deliver Saas analytics and value-based care products. Set a clear vision, strategy, principles, and roadmap to get there. Nuna builds data and analytics solutions to power US healthcare. - Move SaaS contracts from monolithic to agile - Delivered E2E SaaS solutions - Innovated the delivery of Value Based HealthCare solutions to the largest US Insurance providers ### VP of Product, Design & Marketing @ LiquidSpace Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Empower the product, design and marketing teams to build the future of real estate. • Saved $100K / month in spend by building out an end-to-end SEO and content strategy for organic traffic growth. Returned to pre-spend traffic levels within 3 months • Created a $0 CAC customer acquisition funnel focused on the enterprise buyer’s journey • Delivered a 43% increase in supply and 40% increase in leads through the cross-functional infinite supply initiative • Guided the teams in developing a consistent brand position across all touch points • Created a culture of learning, belonging and growth in a distributed team ### Director of Product Management @ LiquidSpace Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead, coached, recruited and develop the product and design teams. Together we build the future of commercial real-estate. • Introduced new revenue stream and product through monthly and longer auto-renewing bookings. This product continues to grow LiquidSpace revenue 30% month over month, and eclipsed and surpassed existent business within a year. • Evolved LiquidSpace from a market place to a market network through the introduction of affiliates and the ability to engage beyond the transaction. • Built the underlying messenger layer to connect people to space • Launched retention and engagement elements including favorites, follows, save search that increased engagement 40% month/month and fosters organic user growth • Define one brand that meets our customers where they are • Create a culture of learning, belonging and growth in a distributed team Got space? Share it https://liquidspace.com/share-office-meeting-space ### Senior Product Manager @ OpenTable Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 • Develop the global platform offering in the restaurant space on mobile, tablet and web. • Responsible for the product strategy around customer onboarding, engagement and mobility. • Own the restaurant side of the OpenTable mobile payments experience. • Led global initiatives for the Electronic Reservation Book software serving 26,000 customers. ### Senior Product Manager @ Satori Consulting Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | (NY, London) • Developed product requirements, business transformation flows and user interface design concepts. Delivered data driven enhancement recommendations and engaged users through product marketing and training. Product managed the enterprise workflow productivity and data management tool launch achieving 1 million in savings and a three-person efficiency in the client onboarding and operations division. Delivered solutions to rigorous 6 week Agile cycles. • Managed the 1.6 million dollar budget and product launch of a new insurance product. Enabled Operations, Marketing, Product Development, Technology and Finance to manage financial targets and helped support strategic business decisions on product launches and execution. • Wrote marketing material, slick sheets and articles around energy and regulatory space. • Designed and communicated data driven risk dashboards and executable action plans and roadmaps for company executives and divisions based on the analysis of enterprise risk data and the development of key risk indicators. Managed the SDLC, created business specifications, ensured vendor deliverables on launch of a new Business Continuity Platform ### Sr Business Analyst, Investments @ OppenheimerFunds Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | New York • Engaged senior executives and kept project on track through structured, clear project management • Marketed new system to portfolio management and risk clients in the Fixed Income and Equity space • Analyzed large cross vendor data sets to establish an enterprise asset classification logic scheme • Managed the development of one risk reporting calculation library from specification to deployment ### Product Manager @ BlackRock Financial Management Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 • Managed the conversion of 32 clients to one standard reporting system around the world. The project decreased machine utilization by 50-90% per client and support staff requirements from 40 people to 2 • Secured new revenue through on boarding, training, monitoring and full deployment of 8 new clients • Researched sustainable risk management solutions in fixed income and equity space for asset management, insurance, bank funds and hedge fund clients • Mentored two direct reports, focusing on their personal growth and engagement with senior management • Designed and lead weekly career development and speaker series for the incoming analyst class of 16 • Administered the software development life cycle - planning, analysis, documentation, execution, stakeholder signoff, testing, communication, rollout, and support; no-roll back track record for all 4 teams • Promoted from Associate to Product Manager ## Education ### MBA in Ranked #1 MBA in the world by Financial Times 2009-2012 London Business School ### MBA in Global Business, Finance NYU Stern School of Business ### BA in Computer Science, Biology New York University ### Paul D. Schreiberg ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elenaluneva --- Source: https://flows.cv/elenaluneva JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/elenaluneva/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05