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Product Manager · Houston, TX

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Profile

Product Manager with 4+ years owning two-sided marketplaces from 0 to acquisition. Shipped AI-powered recommendations, moderation, and pricing products across 40K+ SKU catalogs. Deep in funnel optimization, payments, and trust & safety.

Experience

Scentfine

Jun 2025 – Aug 2026

Product Manager · Fragrance Marketplace · Houston, TX

  • Owned end-to-end product for a two-sided fragrance marketplace on iOS, Android, and web: seller onboarding, listings, search and discovery, checkout, Stripe Connect payments, shipping, community, and trust & safety.
  • Redesigned the seller onboarding funnel to separate listing creation from payment setup, increasing listing completion by 34%.
  • Launched an AI-powered fragrance recommendation engine generating personalized matches across a 40,000+ fragrance catalog.
  • Built an AI moderation system that automated 72% of messages previously requiring manual review, cutting moderation workload while keeping the marketplace safe.
  • Created a data-driven Price Guide covering 40,000+ fragrances, aggregating and weighting pricing data from 5 sources to help users assess market value.

Lootswap

Jun 2022 – Jul 2024

Product Manager · Sneaker & Fashion Marketplace · Houston, TX

  • Built a two-sided consumer marketplace from 0 through acquisition, across iOS, Android, and web.
  • Owned core marketplace surfaces: onboarding, listings, search and discovery, checkout, payments, seller tools, fulfillment, and trust & safety.
  • Launched a StockX-powered Price Guide using live market data to surface resale values and historical pricing by size, improving listing price accuracy and sell-through.
  • Shipped an eBay cross-listing tool that automatically mapped listing photos and product data to eBay, expanding seller reach and driving new buyer demand back to the marketplace.
  • Ran funnel and behavioral analysis with GA4, UXCam, and Branch to find conversion drop-offs and prioritize the product roadmap.

A&A Motors

Feb 2018 – Jan 2020

Marketing Assistant · Automotive · Houston, TX

  • Managed Google Ads and Craigslist campaigns to drive vehicle leads; supported SEO and site optimization that grew organic traffic 25%.

Projects

AI Content Agent ↗

Autonomous content pipeline (TypeScript, OpenAI API, Claude Code) turning live marketplace data into social content: automated planning, AI image generation, real-product compositing, quality scoring, and scheduled publishing; ships 6 carousels and 3 videos daily across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.

AI Job Search Platform ↗

0-to-1 build: discovers relevant roles, tailors résumés to each job description, and automates application workflows (OpenRouter, Browserbase, Railway, Netlify, Resend, REST APIs, webhooks).

AI Lifecycle Engagement Platform ↗

Ditto-based system automating personalized push and in-app messaging from user behavior, marketplace activity, and wishlists, with event triggers, audience segmentation, and admin monitoring.

Skills

  • Product Strategy
  • Roadmapping
  • Marketplace Dynamics
  • Funnel Optimization
  • Product Analytics (GA4, UXCam, Branch)
  • AI Product Development (LLM APIs, Claude Code, OpenAI)
  • Payments (Stripe Connect)
  • Trust & Safety
  • Experimentation
  • Cross-functional Leadership
  • PRDs & User Stories
  • React
  • TypeScript

Education

University of Houston

B.B.A., Marketing · Dec 2024