# Sarah-Marie Chan

> Founder at the Accompaniment Project

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarahmarie

Experienced product person. Shipped 4 commercial products, executing from concept to market. Instigated Kickstarter campaign. Skilled in defining products and facilitating cross-functional decision making. Curious, resourceful, and highly committed.

## Work Experience
### Founder @ The Accompaniment Project
Jan 2021 – Present
The Accompaniment Project empowers communities with accompaniment resources, experiences, and thought leadership. The Accompaniment Project is based on an insight from the Synod in 2022: when people face challenges in their faith and they are accompanied by someone who listens, they are able to persevere in their search for wisdom and meaning. Methods and norms are drawn from management & leadership trainings, ethnographic research from the Stanford d.school, and risk management principles from wilderness medicine at NOLS.

### Head of Product @ Kiira Health
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
I owned and led product for a patient-provider matching service for young women in college, including setting product and design strategy, leading design workshops, managing a designer and team of engineers, drafting product roadmaps, consulting on marketing strategy, developing partnerships with colleges, and preparing for SOC2 security compliance.

### Director of Product @ ClearCost Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
I manage the ADHOC product line, which is an online community & research study for individuals living with chronic diseases. We build secure online surveys and software to test interventions relating to mental health & wellbeing, behavioral health, social isolation, education, and quality of health care. This is a collaborative research endeavor with pharmaceutical GlaxoSmithKline.

Umbrella organization Mazonson & Santas, Inc delivers actionable analysis of securely stored protected health information, improving healthcare experience for patients, providers, employers, and life science organizations. ADHOC is the youngest of M&S's three product lines.

### Product Manager @ ClearCost Health
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Research & Development Engineer II @ Ceterix Orthopaedics
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Fremont, CA
Research, design, development, and new product introduction for 3 novel devices for knee surgery. Contributed to 2 patents, product concept direction, and detailed implementation by closely collaborating with designers, machinists, surgeons, marketing, suppliers, and regulatory. 

Ceterix Orthopaedics was acquired by Smith & Nephew.

### Research & Development Engineer I @ Ceterix Orthopaedics
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, CA

### Research & Development Engineering @ Cardica, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Redwood City, CA
Mechanical design of parts and fixtures for surgical devices. Developed components alongside engineers, inspectors, machinists, and assembly line workers. Supported new product introduction in pursuit of 510(k) FDA clearance.

### Co-Founder @ Revolve Bike Discs, LLC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA
Launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new bicycle chain guard, raising $9k. Effort included design, research, fabrication, patenting, and marketing. Twitter and Facebook campaigns reached 15k people.

### Design Engineering Intern @ Pelvalon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Design, engineering, marketing & testing for Stage IV clinical trial device for women's health

### Research Assistant @ The Cohen Group
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Research on strategic assets of 2 major clients considering market expansion to India and China

### Engineering Intern @ URS Corporation, An AECOM Company
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Project management and engineering supporting the development of a sign, docks, and the Alaska Pipeline


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering: Product Design
Stanford University

### Certificate in Software Product Management
Product School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sm-chan

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Last updated: 2026-03-25