Experience
2022 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
• Available for product and growth consulting [Open to both fractional and full-time roles]
• Available for company coaching and speakerships on AI Product, Strategy and Transformation
• Limited 1:1 PM/Founder Coaching slots available: https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/samho/
• Techstars AI mentor; advised 30+ across accelerator cohorts and mentorship programs since Aug 2022.
• Partner on product strategy and GTM motion design; strengthen growth foundations and early hiring decisions.
• Lead AI/ML advisory on agents, rapid prototyping, and prompt operations to speed concept-to-v1.
• Structure PMF discovery, roadmap, and operating cadence to improve iteration speed and signal quality.
• Share frameworks via talks and writing on AI, Product strategy and prototype-driven discovery: https://samho.substack.com/p/the-pms-guide-to-building-the-right
2023 — 2025
2023 — 2025
San Francisco, California, United States
Turing (Series E—$2.2B valuation; $225M+ total funding)
Steering an AI-native product organization that partners with frontier labs to advance LLM reasoning, coding, and STEM capabilities. At peak scale we ran 100K+ assessments/month across 20+ languages and 140+ countries, materially compressing time-to-hire and cost to serve.
• Helped power the company’s breakout—tripled revenue in 2024 and secured a 2025 Series E at a $2.2B valuation.
• Expanded scope from Head of Product, Growth/Demand (1 PM) to lead the full product organization in June 2024; 16-person org across Product, Design, and Ultra Lab; report to CEO.
• Partnered with frontier labs—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, xAI, et al.—with a talent marketplace operating across 140+ countries.
• Shipped Agentic Vetting Platform: LLM judges + human-in-the-loop, automated critique/calibration, and multimodal assessments—evaluated millions of candidates in 20+ languages; enabled tens of thousands of hires; reduced time-to-hire from weeks to days.
• Operated at scale—100K+ assessments/month at peak—while reducing per-assessment COGS by 95%+ and saving X00,000+ reviewer/interviewer hours annually.
• Drove AI excellence via SFT, RLHF, and robust evaluation frameworks; implemented RAG and agents to raise reasoning/coding/STEM capability and strengthen production reliability/safety.
2022 — 2022
2022 — 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior product executive hired to accelerate transaction growth and modernize Sendoso’s core platform. Led the product and data platform strategy to increase total sends by boosting sender frequency and expanding the base of monthly active senders.
• Led Product for Sendoso’s core experiences and data platform (Campaigns, Sending, Marketplace, Analytics, Integrations), managing an org of ~10 (8 PMs, 2 Product Analysts) to increase total sends via higher sending frequency and more active senders.
• Delivered growth outcomes: 30% YoY Q1 growth in platform spend; expanded monthly active users from 20K to 28K; contributed to 230% growth in platform spend since 2020; pacing to $70M platform spend in 2022; surpassed 3M lifetime sends.
• Shipped adoption- and performance-driving capabilities: Custom Brand Center; Gmail Integration; Email Domain enhancements driving +30% opens and +40% clicks; Address Verification reducing failed/undeliverable addresses by ~40%; and ML-driven relevance improvements across Marketplace/Sending to increase selection quality and conversion.
• Initiated foundational platform modernization: introduced a new design system and micro-frontend architecture to enable modularity, reuse, and faster iteration.
• Elevated operating rigor: standardized product briefs, onboarding documentation, and discovery practices to improve alignment, speed, and quality.
• Deepened ecosystem value by maintaining and expanding key integrations across Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, and leading CRM/analytics platforms to support adoption and campaign performance.
2021 — 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Director of Product Management – Growth. Directed growth org (PM + eng + data) across PLG and sales-assisted funnels; promoted to VP. Outcomes detailed under VP role.
Sendoso is the world's first Sending Platform (SP). Our fully integrated solution solves sourcing, physical warehouse storage, inventory tracking, and ROI attribution problems so that businesses can send anything and personalize at scale. Our customers see increased conversion rates, revenue, retention, and ROI. Sending is hard. Sendoso is easy.
2019 — 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
Directed Glassdoor’s ML/search product portfolio serving ~50–60M monthly job seekers, owning strategy, portfolio governance, and cross-org execution. Balanced consumer experience with B2B monetization to drive a 40% YoY lift in monetization rate and nine-figure annualized revenue impact.
• Directed the ML/search portfolio for a 50+ person org (3 PMs; ML, DS, Eng), integrating Knowledge Graph, NLP, Recommendations, and Search Platform into a cohesive strategy serving ~50–60M monthly job seekers (public third‑party estimates).
• Owned portfolio prioritization and governance across consumer and B2B monetization outcomes; drove a 40% YoY lift in monetization rate and nine-figure annualized revenue impact while preserving user relevance.
• Shipped high-leverage initiatives: Inferred Job Title v3 and multi-stage ranking increased Apply Start conversions by +5% overall and +20% in monetized experiences; expanded international monetization and coverage.
• Scaled content understanding: launched Employer FAQ automation (3.5M answers across 300K+ employers) to extend long-tail coverage and organic engagement.
• Strengthened marketplace health: normalized entities and attributes to reduce zero/low-result pages and improve matching quality across markets.
• Orchestrated cross-org platform migration to Indeed’s Search API across 20+ partner teams; coordinated roadmap alignment, phased rollouts, and rapid issue resolution.
• Elevated operating cadence: instituted continuous customer discovery, rigorous instrumentation, and a high-velocity experimentation program (dozens concurrent; hundreds overall), improving speed-to-learning and reliability standards.
Education
Stanford University
Master's Certificate
Stanford University
Master's Certificate
Stanford University
Certification
The University of Kansas
B.S.
Parkway Central High School