Avery Morgan
Professional Summary
Strategic product and operations leader with 9+ years of experience building digital products, scaling cross-functional teams, and turning customer insight into measurable growth. Combines strong storytelling with analytical rigor to deliver launch-ready programs, polished stakeholder communication, and efficient execution across global markets.
Work Experience
Director of Product Strategy
Northstar Labs
San Francisco, CA
Own product strategy for a SaaS platform serving enterprise hiring teams across three regions.
• Led annual planning that aligned product, sales, and operations around a unified growth roadmap.
• Shipped workflow automation initiatives that reduced recruiter turnaround time by 32%.
• Partnered with design and engineering leads to standardize delivery rituals across six squads.
Senior Product Manager
Pine & Peak
Remote
Managed customer lifecycle tools for a high-growth B2B marketplace.
• Increased activation by 24% through a reworked onboarding sequence and guided setup flows.
• Introduced KPI dashboards that gave leadership weekly visibility into funnel performance.
• Coordinated launches across marketing, success, and revenue teams in four markets.
Product Operations Manager
Cinder Studio
New York, NY
Built the operating cadence for a design-led software business scaling from Seed to Series B.
• Implemented planning, retrospectives, and quarterly review systems used across 40+ teammates.
• Cut project delivery variance by 18% with better intake, scoping, and stakeholder review loops.
• Created enablement materials that improved cross-team adoption of new product releases.
Business Analyst
Harbor Insights
Chicago, IL
Supported digital transformation programs for retail and financial services clients.
• Synthesized customer research, operational data, and stakeholder interviews into rollout plans.
• Facilitated workshops that translated strategic goals into executable requirements.
Education
Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
GPA: 3.8
Dean's List
Bachelor of Arts in International Relations
Boston University
Boston, MA
GPA: 3.7
Cum Laude
Skills
Languages
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
2024-03
Google Project Management Certificate
2023-08
Product Analytics Fundamentals
Amplitude
2022-11
Projects
Global Hiring Platform Launch
Led the end-to-end launch plan for a multi-region recruiting workflow platform used by internal talent teams across EMEA, APAC, and North America.
• Defined the rollout phasing, stakeholder communication cadence, and regional go-live criteria.
• Coordinated 14 workstreams across product, legal, localization, and ops over eight months.
Strategy, service design, analytics, stakeholder alignment
Lifecycle Reporting Framework
Designed a leadership reporting framework that unified product, pipeline, and adoption metrics in one weekly cadence.
• Reduced time-to-decision on roadmap trade-offs by creating a single source of truth for senior leadership.
• Adopted by three product lines within two quarters of rollout.
SQL, dashboard design, stakeholder alignment
Volunteer
Mentor
Women in Product
San Francisco, CA
Mentor early-career product managers through bi-weekly coaching sessions.
• Supported 8 mentees in securing PM roles at companies including Salesforce, Stripe, and HubSpot.
• Facilitate monthly workshops on roadmap communication and stakeholder alignment.
Product Advisor
Code for America
Remote
Advised civic tech teams building digital tools for local government agencies.
• Reviewed product strategy and user research for three brigade projects serving vulnerable populations.
Teaching & Training
Product Strategy Capstone
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Guest lecturer for graduate-level product strategy capstone course.
• Delivered sessions on discovery frameworks, roadmap trade-offs, and cross-functional alignment.
• Mentored two student teams through their final product case presentations.
Product Metrics Workshop
ProductTank San Francisco
Facilitated a half-day hands-on workshop on choosing and implementing product success metrics.
• Attended by 45 practitioners across startups and enterprise companies.
Publications
The Quiet KPIs: Rethinking Success Metrics for Digital Products
Explores how leading product teams measure lagging vs. leading indicators of product health.
From Discovery to Decision: Stakeholder Alignment at Scale
A practitioner's guide to structuring product discovery outputs for executive audiences.
Conferences
ProductCon 2024
Talk: "Scaling Strategy in Platform Products — Lessons from 9 Years of Shipping"
SaaStr Annual 2023
Panel: "Operationalizing Product-Led Growth at Scale"
Mind the Product London 2022
Recognition & Awards
Product Leader of the Year
Product School Awards
Recognised for contributions to product operations excellence and community mentorship.
2024-11
Top 50 Product Managers to Watch
Mind the Product
Named among 50 emerging product leaders globally for demonstrated strategic impact.
2023-05
Organizations
Women in Product
Board Member
Oversee mentorship programming and annual conference planning for 12,000+ member community.
Product Management Association
Member
Interests
Causes
Media Coverage
- Fast Company — "The Product Managers Reshaping How Enterprise Teams Hire" (March 2024)
- Forbes — Quoted in "How AI Is Changing Product Roadmaps" (November 2023)
- Product Talk Podcast — Episode 112: Aligning Strategy and Execution in High-Growth Startups (June 2023)