Dave Feldman

VP Product, Design, & Stuff

At Outgoing, we combine AI and great design to get people out into the world, together. We're very early-stage, so I wear a lot of hats including product strategy, advising our founder, design, user research, and full-stack engineering.

VP Product

Prisma simplifies working with databases, offering the #1 object-relational mapping tool for the TypeScript ecosystem.

Independent Consultant

Worked with startups to debug and evolve their product operating processes through including team evaluations and fractional executive leadership. Identified moments of friction, silos, and ineffective or unnecesary process—then worked to drive change.

CEO & Founder

We built a SaaS product to improve business meetings via behavioral science—because everybody wants better meetings, but most attempts to improve them fail for predictable reasons. We raised pre-seed funding in 2021, built a robust product and a team of four, and published a smash-hit Harvard Business Review article along the way. Ultimately we disproved our core hypothesis.

Advisor

Envelope helps people reduce their credit-card debt. I met weekly with the founder to provide guidance on product, UX, engineering, and hiring.

VP Design, Interim VP Product

Heap provides behavioral analytics to product teams. I served as first VP Design and interim VP Product. I joined when we had neither a PM nor a design team, and worked with fellow executives to create a lean, agile, collaborative product-development process.

Product Design Manager, Messenger Developer Platform

The opportunity: invent a new type of digital experience rooted in chat, via opinionated developer experience. My team and I sat down with platform developers to understand their needs, wrote developer docs, and created open-source templates for common bot flows. My postmortem on the 2016-17 chatbot bubble has over 30k views.

Product Manager & Product Design Leader

Product Design Manager for Gmail & Inbox by Gmail. Managed 10-15 designers and researchers in Mountain View and Zurich and drove product strategy for Inbox following its initial launch. Product Manager for an AI project in Search.

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Messaging + AI startup funded by Kleiner Perkins, Triplepoint, DFJ, and Menlo Ventures. Acquired by Google in 2014. As co-founder and CPO I served as product lead, designer, and front-end engineer. Also I made the coffee sometimes.

Entrepreneur in Residence

Served as CrunchFund's first EIR. Helped evaluate potential investments. Served as interim product lead for a portfolio company.

Senior Director, Product Management

Worked across AOL to improve overall product quality. Managed the 2011 relaunch of TechCrunch.com, nearly doubling page-views per visitor.

Director, User Experience Design (2007-2010)

Led the design team for Yahoo! Messenger—then the largest instant messaging service in the US. As member of the Emerging Markets team, participated in strategy and global ethnographic research. Designed and PMed Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone, which became the #1 free social networking app on iTunes and was featured by Apple.

Product Design & Strategy Consultant

Performed freelance UX, visual design, product strategy, and front-end development for a variety of clients spanning RFID middleware, academic book-purchasing, personal finance, political fundraising, and digital asset management.

Internship - Design & Engineering

Designed and built front-ends for information-retrieval and visualization systems.

Internship - Engineering

AB, Computer Science

Relevant Coursework: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Abnormal Psychology; Computer Graphics; Face Perception; Artificial Intelligence; Abnormal Psychology; Data Structures and Algorithms; Music Theory; Intellectual History

Extracurricular Activities: Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players: Board of Directors, Set Designer, Technical Director, Stage Manager. Harvard Din & Tonics.

Faculty Research Assistant, Human-Computer Interaction Lab

Academic internship. Data-visualization research & prototyping.

Research Associate, Human-Computer Interaction Group

Academic internship. Designed educational and collabgoration tools. Conducted user research.

High School Degree