Israel (Iz) Shalom

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led product strategy for billion-dollar products.
Founded a successful AI startup with significant VC backing.
Expert in managing cross-functional teams and product launches.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS product leader with extensive experience in AI and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadershipUser Experience (ux)Team ManagementUser GrowthApi DevelopmentEngineering ManagementMachine LearningSeoResearch EngineeringTeam Leadership

Other Skills

FundraisingAnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)EngineeringProduct VisionProduct StrategySoftware DevelopmentComputer ScienceMentoringPeople ManagementOrganizational Leadership

About

I like working with brilliant people to solve important problems. Currently Head of Product at Cartesia, where we're building the fastest, most natural Voice AI. Before that, Founder and CEO at Ollie AI, where we built a better way to do photos, raised from top VCs. Before that, PM launching Dropbox Plus+ and Google One, two products that have reached billion+ ARR. Other things I did in my career: - Product Lead for Google APIs Platform and Console - Eng Lead for Google Research, where we built ML infra for evaluating answer quality - Eng Lead for Search Console, where we tried to make structured web happen

Experience

Cartesia

Head of Product

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

Running Product at Cartesia

Product ManagementLeadership

Ollie: ai photo assistant

Co-founder, CEO

Jan 2022 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Raised $6M+ from top-tier VCs
Featured in TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Fortune, Axios
Helped sort through billion+ photos

Product ManagementFundraisingUser Experience (UX)

Dropbox

Group Product Manager

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Group PM for "Home", improving productivity for personal users.
Managing a team of six PMs, mapping to a team of 100+ engineers, designers and marketers
Responsible for Dropbox's $1B+ ARR "Dropbox Plus" SKU
Overseeing successful launches of Dropbox Passwords, Life Vault, Computer Backup and Dropbox Family with $XXM ARR unlocked and >50% Sean Ellis score.

Product ManagementTeam ManagementAnalytics

Google

4 roles

Senior Product Manager, Google One

Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

Launched Google One as a Product Manager and grew it from 0 to 10M users. Google One now has >100M users and brings $XB ARR to Google. Grew the team from 25 to 125 people.

Product ManagementUser Growth

Product Manager, Google APIs Platform

Feb 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · On-site

Responsible for Google APIs Platform that serve 200 Google APIs, which themselves serve millions of developers, who in turn serve 1B+ end users daily. Launched a new API console as well as our third party marketplace console.

Product ManagementAPI Development

Engineering Manager, Google Research

Apr 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

Worked in the Strategic Technologies team, overseeing multiple projects with researchers.
Specifically led the "attention" engineering team. No, not that attention: we were trying to figure out what elements on a page people were paying attention to, to evaluate whether web answers (queries that don't result with clicks) were performing well.

Engineering ManagementMachine Learning

Backend Team Lead, Search Console

Oct 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

Working with devs to make sure their website is easy to crawl and index. If you had any SEO trouble you would come to us :)
Managed and mentored a team of five devs, moved the project from another site into TLV, built team processes and stabilized the infra. Long live the open web!

Engineering ManagementSEO