Ash Zade
Staff Product Manager @Stack Overflow
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WORK HISTORY
Staff Product Manager @Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow (Community)• Lead Product Manager for stackoverflow.ai - AI Assist, an AI powered search and discovery tool grounded in Stack Overflow community content. Through multiple iterations and architectures, development includes dozens of prompts and refinements, model evaluations, query categorization and conditional outputs, and off-ramps to the community product.• Launching experiments for an updated authoring experience, opportunity sizing long form content, and executable code snippets.• Working directly with community moderators and power users to get feedback and address concerns.Stack Overflow for Teams AKA Stack Internal (SaaS)• Build product story and strategy for shifting marketplace and AI future• Lead the development of OverflowAI, GenAI enhanced search product, Slack & MS Teams auto-answer and thread summarization integrations• Lead API development in order to better integrate into enterprise ecosystems.
EDUCATION
University of Ottawa
Bachelor's Degree, Major Psychology, Minor Criminology
SKILLS
ABOUT ASH ZADE
With over a decade of experience in product management, I am curious, bold, & passionate about creating innovative and impactful solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies and user-centric design. At Stack Overflow, I lead a product team that has built stackoverflow.ai, implemented AI into SaaS, improved search, and built ChatOps integrations. I bring diverse perspectives and experiences to the team, having worked in different industries, countries, and domains, such as 3D, SaaS, startups, and managed services.\"Ash is one of the best story tellers that I’ve worked with in my career. This skill is not something people easily hone, but Ask has mastered it. This skill lets him strongly advocate for the team and their line of work. It also allows him to receive information from others in a manner that crafts a story together for better problem space analysis.\"\"Ash is considered a leader across multiple teams and disciplines. He quickly established as a trusted partner, mentor and strategic thinker able to execute with clarity during a highly dynamic time.\"\"Ash handles difficult conversations well, not being blindsided by technical detail but instead drilling into what\'s important. He asks good questions, has good ideas, and is great at representing the team externally.\"\"Ash has a knack for giving clear directions to the team and is always there to back up teammates, whether it\'s about representing our needs or managing expectations with stakeholders. Even when things have been stressful for the team, Ash\'s positive attitude has helped us stay on track.”\"Ash has deep understanding of what’s happening in development, research, business, and design for the area that our team touches and can consequently plan and react appropriately to changing needs.\"\"In a display of his adaptability, Ash embraced a new challenge when leadership presented an AI initiative. He quickly updated the product brief and developed a vision for how this new AI-powered experience could create value for users and the business. Ash modeled a startup mindset; he owned all of the prompt engineering, architecture, and evaluation.\"\"Ash challenged his team to move quickly to launch the alpha and progress through two beta phases. He sought feedback from users off-platform by surveying communities like Reddit and Discord and also engaged with our internal power-user community.\"
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