Sarang Patel

About Sarang Patel

I’ve spent the last 12+ years helping early and mid-stage companies navigate the messy middle by building products, leading teams and standing up the operational backbone that helps businesses scale. My experience spans fintech, B2B SaaS and consumer platforms, where I’ve led not just product but also operations and customer success. I like working where clarity matters, tradeoffs are real and momentum beats perfection.As an early product hire, I’ve driven everything from product discovery to platform rebuilds and GTM. At CSID, I helped scale features and services ahead of our acquisition by Experian. At Hello Alice, I defined product strategy through 60x user growth, combining data, empathy and urgency to turn vision into execution.Most recently, I’ve been operating at the intersection of product, payments, and operations to support evolving stakeholder needs that hold up under regulatory pressure. I’m often brought in to translate ambiguity (“we need to grow,” “this isn’t scaling”) into concrete product bets, clearer systems, and measurable progress.Lately, I\'ve focused on and experimented with how AI can reshape product development and operations, not as a magic wand but as a real tool for speed, insight and leverage.

Experience

1. Director of Product Management

   Scout

   Oct 2025 — Present

   Early product leader shaping a multi-sided payments platform for college athletes and athletic administrators, spanning revenue share, NIL payouts and compliance-driven financial workflows.• Lead strategy and execution across payouts, financial education, and admin tooling while balancing speed, regulatory constraints, and real-world operational complexity.• Built the cross-functional operating foundation between product, account management, and clients, cutting inbound ad hoc requests by ~35% with clear intake and delivery loops.• Known for translating business goals into pragmatic product bets, exec-ready narratives, and shipped outcomes.

Education

• Learning @ Morning Brew

  Leadership Accelerator

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  BBA, MIS

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• User Acceptance Testing
• Document Design
• Saas
• Financial Reporting
• Requirements Gathering
• Identity Management
• Software Project Management
• Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Product Management
• Data Analysis
• Jira
• Computer Security
• Source Code Management
• Integration
• Requirements Analysis
• Master Data
• Cyber Security