Dan Charlson
All things PM at Staris AI: Total Context Product Security
- Role
- Principal Technical Product Manager at Staris Ai
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dan Charlson
These days.enhancing and scaling Technical Product/GTM, Program, and Project Management at Staris And coming soon: also Customer Success aka Delivery Management, and Sales Ops / Rev OpsWhat I do generally. Tech PM, Product/GTM, Customer Success, and Biz Dev And also: AI/ML/NLP, Data Science, Design & Viz, International, Operations, R&D, SaaS KPIs, and StrategyIndeed: I\'m both a Technology AND Business Leader in software, SaaS, and PaaS—and for the world I solve problems, and fill workflow gaps, at any level of an organizationThat is: I\'m a hands-on individual contributor, people manager, company servant-leader, exec team member, and consultant, across Four Functions and Three Domains:•Functions1. Tech PM -Serving tens of millions of end users with High Availability2. Product/GTM -Repeated 0-to-1 execution, then scaling 1-to-10 and beyond3. Customer Success aka Technical Account Management -With Fortune 100 and Global 200 companies as customers - the FULL range: from SMB on up.4. Biz Dev, and Sales and Revenue Ops -P&L Ownership and multiple 8-figure TCV deals/accounts.All within complex business, legal, and international regulatory/compliance aspects•Domains1. Global SaaS/PaaS Platforms for Digital Music Tech 35 territories, every continent but Antarctica (Both consumer apps and devices, AND client/server infrastructure and ops)2. AI/ML/NLP, and3. Software Internationalization and Localization (I18n and L10n)•Cross-functional, Creative, and Interdisciplinary•15 years as a people manager and company leader, and 12 on exec teams•I can \"speak enterprise,\" and enjoy small to medium companies—and startups—where I can make the biggest impact. For example, in my last gig, I helped a startup scale from 12 to 50•Seven years at MSFT, 50/50 between Office and Windows
Experience
Principal Technical Product Manager
Apr 2026 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Taking the reins from the founders, toward enhancing and scaling Technical Product/GTM, Program, and Project Management at Staris AI, a Seattle-based cybersecurity startupOur AI-driven AppSec platform doesn\'t just find threats—it understands the business context behind every finding. You know exactly what data is at risk and who gets hurt if attackers break in. Our closed-loop remediation system finds problems, fixes them automatically, and proves the fix works—all at the speed of modern AI-powered development. Naturally, I\'ll also be touching Delivery aka Customer Success, and supporting our sales leaders with RevOps
Education
University of Washington
Two BA degrees, Linguistics (with Distinction) and Japan Studies (Honors)
Middlebury College
Certificate, Japanese Language School
Reed College
(no degree), Russian Language and Literature
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