8+ years in high-performance product teams at scaleups — somewhere the engineering culture was set by engineers, not handed down as a process.A strong home base in frontend (Next.js / React) with demonstrated ability to go full-stack when the problem demands it — you follow the work, not your lane. Real experience building AI-powered product surfaces in production: agentic systems, LLM integrations, conversational interfaces, or retrieval-augmented workflows — and the product instincts to make them feel trustworthy rather than just functional. Experience evaluating and improving AI output quality — whether through evaluation frameworks, feedback loops, or iterating on prompts and retrieval. You've thought about what good looks like when the system is reasoning, not just retrieving. You think about activation and retention the way a PM would. You've looked at usage data and changed what you were building because of it — not as a process, but because it bothered you that people weren't coming back. Product and design intuition strong enough to represent those interests when the PM or designer isn't in the room. You've pushed back on bad product decisions more than once and been right often enough that people listen. You don't need to be managed. You take ownership of outcomes, not tasks, and you're honest about what's working and what isn't.