Shai Traister
Product Management at IBM
- Role
- Product Management at IBM
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Shai Traister
Accomplished leader with executive DNA rooted in hands-on technical expertise, with proven results of developing strategies, leading teams and launching successful products to the market.Throughout my career, I have developed big-picture thinking with a strategic approach and business acumen. Today, I am blending these qualities to set a direction, build roadmaps and set priorities. When it comes to execution, I am following Lean Startup methodologies of having a close interaction with users/customers and relying on experimentation. Using this approach with the latest Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Deep Learning and NLP technologies, I am able to build and launch successful products that add distinguishable value to their users. I have continuously served as a thought leader, a catalyst for ongoing innovation, and an advocate in articulating value to customers and shareholders alike. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:• Joined an early stage startup as employee #12 and turned a technical concept into a best in class product in the market, leading to multiple acquisitions.• Launched a voice agent that fully automates order-taking at McDonald’s drive-thrus. Deployed at over 100 stores running 24-7 and taken over 75M orders at >90% automation.• Managed five products that use AI and ML technologies.• Assisted Vendavo’s CEO to shape Vendavo’s 2020 vision and product strategy.• Led an AI-based product for customer churn detection from concept to market release and customer adoption.• A founding member and a mentor in SanDisk Ventures - a Business Accelerator program to drive innovation.• Invented a revolutionary product for SanDisk and headed a team to productize and launch it.• Won the 2nd place in SanDisk’s business plan competition out of over 100 entrants.• Managed SanDisk’s caching-SSD market segment driving >$100M annual revenues and >45% market share.• Sold over 5M licenses of a disk-caching software to 7 out of 10 largest PC OEMs.• Successfully launched the entry-level SSD product line, leading to annual revenues of >$150M and >35% market share.• Was granted the IDF Chief of Staff’s Honored Officer Award in recognition of High Excellence.• 23 granted patents.
Experience
Product Management
Nov 2021 — Present
Building Voice Agents for enterprises
Education
Tel Aviv University
M.Sc, Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Marketing Course
2014
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
MBA, Business Administration
2007
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
B.Sc, Electrical Engineering
1993 — 1997
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Market Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Engineering Management
- Software Development
- Soc
- Project Management
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Product Marketing
- Strategic Partnerships
- Semiconductors
- Saas
- Road Maps
- Product Vision
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Product Leadership
- Feature Definition
- Pricing Strategy
- Marketing Strategy
- Market Requirements Documents
- Product Development
- Product Requirements
- Fpga
- Embedded Systems
- Systems Engineering
- Product Strategies
- Product Management
- Consumer Electronics
- R&D
- Storage
- Entrepreneurship
- Artificial Intelligence
- Product Evangelism
- Hardware Architecture
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