Owais Khan

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led multiple successful product launches at Notion.
  • Achieved significant user retention and revenue growth.
  • Co-founded a startup acquired by Datadog.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Marketing expert with a strong focus on user engagement and growth strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product MarketingGrowth MarketingMarketingResearchTechnology Consulting

Other Skills

AIAsset DevelopmentCommunity BuildingCustomer AcquisitionData VisualizationGrowth ExperimentsHuman-Centered DesignLegacy SystemsMachine LearningMarket PenetrationMarket PositioningMessagingNPS SurveysPricingProduct Sourcing

Experience

Cavela

Product Marketing

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Using AI to automate product sourcing.
  • Cavela handles every part of product sourcing, from product spec creation to order delivery. With 200,000+ suppliers across 40+ countries, our AI agents find supplier quotes that are >35% lower than standard manual sourcing.
AIProduct MarketingProduct Sourcing

Notion

2 roles

Product Marketing

Promoted

Jun 2022Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • PMM for Notion AI special projects: working on stuff like agents, MCP, automating workflows. First launch of "Build with AI" drove 1M+ databases being created with user retention exceeding all benchmarks.
  • Developed persona battlecards for Notion's ICP of Engineering and Operations teams, with a focus on both CXOs/CTOs and ICs. Now used directly by all sellers. Has led to increases in close rates and revenue from the enterprise sales channel.
  • PMM for the launch of Forms: tier 1 launch at Notion's first conference (Make with Notion). Positioned us in a new market, millions of forms created, unblocked enterprise sales deals, and expanded our product portfolio.
  • PMM for the launch of Charts: led user research, messaging, pricing, asset development, and weekly sprints with channel leads. 1M impressions on launch day, press coverage, millions of charts created, and $1M+ in revenue due to upgrades.
  • Built Release Marketing: a consistent experience for users to learn about new features in-product and marketing channels. Now Notion's most important channel for product launches, reaching 10M users every month.
  • Supported the launch of Notion Calendar, our first standalone "Notion Suite" app. 2.5 million new sign-ups within thirty days of launch, significantly exceeding the target of 500K⁠. Activation and retention also exceeded benchmarks. After launch I became the PMM lead for Notion Calendar.
  • PMM for Mobile: revamped our mobile app store listings with new messaging, copy, and visuals. Resulted in stat sig higher downloads. App store listing is now a core self serve growth channel for Notion.
  • PMM for Integrations and API: launched Notion’s first first-party integration (Slack). Most requested and used Notion integration in the past year. 500K+ users using the integration with thousands of new users every week.
Product MarketingUser RetentionMarket PositioningUser ResearchMessagingPricing+1

Growth Marketing

Dec 2020Jun 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Joined as employee #60.
  • Defined Notion's ideal user journey from the onboarding aha moment to retention/churn based on persona. Launched growth experiments that reduced churn and contributed an uplift of $500K+ in ARR. Learnings were used by the product team to improve user activation.
  • Launched Notion's first growth experiments to improve the self-serve revenue funnel including 1:many onboarding help, content campaigns that open-sourced Notion's learnings, and scaling our community of champions at startups.
  • Re-launched Notion’s startup program and acquired thousands of new startups in our first quarter after launch (128% of our Q1 target). Market penetration in startups rose to 50%+ of YC companies and 90% of the Forbes Cloud 100 using Notion.
User Journey MappingGrowth ExperimentsCommunity BuildingGrowth Marketing

Quantifai

Co-founder and Marketing Lead (Acquired by Datadog)

Jun 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • Metaplane (YC W20) was acquired by Datadog in April 2025. Previously known as Quantifai.
  • Used machine learning to make customer data understandable for teams. Backed by Y Combinator, Flybridge, Khosla, Felicis, and the founders of Okta and HubSpot.
  • Developed the core messaging for engineer and non-engineer personas. Used that messaging to close our first paying customers, raise a $1.5M seed round, develop our ICP, build a beta customer pipeline of 50+ companies, and pivot the company to selling to data teams.
Machine LearningMessagingCustomer AcquisitionMarketing

Appcues

Product Marketing Intern

Mar 2018Aug 2018 · 5 mos

  • Appcues adds an experience layer to your product, so you can build user onboarding, NPS surveys, or feature announcements in minutes instead of in weeks. Customers include Eventbrite, Indiegogo, Typeform, and Canva.
User OnboardingNPS SurveysProduct Marketing

Mit media lab

Research Collaborator

Jun 2015May 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Building data visualization and analysis tools that are accessible to the many, not just the few. Combining human-centered interface design, recommender systems, and machine learning to let anyone understand their data.
Data VisualizationHuman-Centered DesignMachine LearningResearch

Deloitte

Technology Consulting

Sep 2013Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Boston, Massachusetts

  • Customized legacy software for legacy companies (state governments, nuclear submarine manufacturer). Worked for the CTO and launched things like DataUSA.
  • Also where I learned that we have to make software more human. The world's legacy software is not human.
Software CustomizationLegacy SystemsTechnology Consulting

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2017Jan 2019

Y Combinator

W20 Batch

Jan 2020Jan 2020

Bentley University

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Jan 2010Jan 2013

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