Angela Santurbano
Director at Cocoon
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal Product Manager, Commerce Platform
2024 - Current
Orders Platform empowers sellers to manage their orders, no matter where they come from or how they should be delivered. I lead product to help sellers expand order volume. We're building a scalable and intelligent platform for sellers through our 1st party and API products. * Worked with 80+ XFN team members to launch our new Square for Restaurants experience * Launched an improved search experience for 500k sellers on the POS I'm helping the company fully transition from a payments company to a commerce company and help omnichannel sellers save time and expand their business.
Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.
Product Advisor
2024
Consulted CEO on product strategy and execution for the initial product. BuildVision aims to simplify construction procurement. Their mission is to build a future where every piece of equipment and material on a construction site can be effortlessly sourced, bid, financed, tracked and delivered — all through a single platform
Director of Product Management (Head of Product)
2022 - 2023
Cocoon (First Round, Index Ventures) is an HR tech platform. Their core product is a leave management platform for SMB and enterprise customers. * Led overarching product strategy for the company through upmarket expansion and investing in better HR team onboarding experience. * Led a strategic shift to move towards software-first approach and reducing service-oriented approach by investing in an intuitive self-serve employee claims experience. I worked closely with executive team with our strategically shift. * Hired and led a team of PMs and led roadmap that we executed against with 75 XFN team members
Next generation leave management software that automates the complexities of compliance, claims, and payroll.
Raised $25,500,000.00 from SemperVirens Venture Capital, Index Ventures, Springbank Collective, Magnify Ventures, First Round Capital and XYZ Venture Capital.
Product Management Lead, Spend Management
2021 - 2022
Leading how we build intuitive employee spend management software leveraging AI for expense automation. * Led a team with ~50-XFN partners (design, eng, data science, marketing, legal, partnerships) * Launched our first international Spend product for global companies * Built out the employee experience for Empower, Brex's first spend management product, for enterprise companies, including DoorDash and Coinbase * Built out a reimbursement product on ACH payment rails with >$XXM in completed transactions, 6x volume within 12 months. Customers can now combine cards and reimbursements on a single platform * Revamped our interview process for PM evaluation to grow the product team Reference: https://www.brex.com/journal/a-world-where-value-can-be-created-from-everywhere
Brex Venture Debt is designed for early-stage, venture-backed technology companies.
Product Manager, Revenue Operations
2020 - 2021
Focused on AI and workflow tools for the Finance team and VP of Financial Operations * Worked with ~200 XFN members across finance & finance ops to automate finance workflows. * Led 3 teams of engineers, designers, UX researchers, and data scientists to build internal workflow tools to automate credit decisions using machine learning for~$50B credit lines across the product portfolio (WhatsApp,Instagram, etc.). * Built meaningful decisioning frameworks to increase credit approach while maintaining low fraud rates, resulting in $XXM in savings.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Group Product Manager
2018 - 2020
Head of Product for our general contractor product, managing a small team of PMs. * Built an end-to-end customer experience for general contractors from design to construction that was the source of >80% of company's revenue. * Evolved and built a more robust framework to lead our user research efforts for new product experimentation * Built out our initial product tools for general contractors to manage subcontractor bids, managing the bidding process and risk with subcontractors. * Built 0->1 estimation product for general contractors to compare subcontractor bids and collaboratively choose the right contractor. Improved retention by X% and expanded our market from Fortune 500 to Fortune 100 companies within construction Acquired by Autodesk in December 2018.
Senior Product Manager
2017 - 2018
Investment Banking Analyst
2014 - 2016
* Built out financial models to project returns for investments and acquisition opportunities * Led market research identifying unique insights for investments in the B2B SaaS and media sectors * Supported MEAG acquisition of North Texas wind farm in 2015 https://ippjournal.com/news/munich-re-acquires-stake-in-us-wind-farm * Supported Ustream in their acquisition by IBM for $130M in 2016 https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/21/ibm-confirms-acquisition-of-ustream-forms-new-cloud-video-unit RBC Capital Markets: 2014-2015 (I supported companies in power, utilities & infrastructure with equity raises and M&A) Code Advisors: 2015-2016 (I supported media and tech companies in fundraising and sell-side opportunities)
Education
Bachelor of Science
2010 - 2013