Merwan Hade

Product Manager

New York, New York, United States13 yrs 9 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led AI product development at Google Docs.
  • Directed Slack's Workflow Builder for business automation.
  • Established Salesforce Anywhere for enhanced collaboration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Leader with expertise in AI and workflow automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAi Product DevelopmentWorkflow AutomationCollaboration PlatformsRecommendation SystemsLow-code DevelopmentCloud Development

Other Skills

CJavaC#Windows AzureCloud ComputingProgram ManagementUser Interface DesignUser Experience Design.NETSQLVisual StudioC++LinuxSoftware EngineeringSoftware Development

About

Experienced Product leader, with a proven track record of success in leading initiatives at Google, Slack, Quip (Salesforce), and Microsoft. I specialize in driving product innovation from conception to market launch, scaling products to meet enterprise needs, and solving complex problems through collaboration with various stakeholders. My expertise is focused on building user-centric collaboration and no-code/low-code SaaS platforms. Currently, I serve as the Gen AI Product lead for Google Docs.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Google

Product Lead - Google Docs

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

  • Product lead for Gen AI writing and personalization at Google Docs
Product ManagementAI Product Development

Slack

Director of Product Management

Oct 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Head of Product for Slack's Workflow Builder which enables users to streamline business processes via multi-step workflows, 3rd party triggers and actions, and codeful functions.
  • Led the vision, strategy, and key results for Workflow Builder 2.0 and 3P integrations from conception to GA. Managed a team of Senior PMs. Partnered with GTM teams to build market positioning, field enablement, pricing and packaging strategy. Delivered the Platform keynote at Frontiers and presented at TDX, Dreamforce, and World Tour conferences.
Product ManagementWorkflow Automation

Salesforce quip

Director of Product Management

Oct 2019Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Quip (Salesforce) is a cloud-based product productivity and collaboration platform that enables teams to create, share, and collaborate on documents and spreadsheets in real-time. Salesforce Anywhere was a strategic initiative that brought the consumer-grade engagement and collaboration of Quip to Salesforce with end-user initiated alerts, personalized actions, real-time chat, and workflow integrations.
  • Established the Salesforce Anywhere Mobile vision, strategy, and solution architecture. Led the incubation efforts for a new tabular data service. Drove cross-functional collaboration between user research, data science, design, and engineering to develop mobile and web interfaces. Partnered with sales and marketing to define the go-to-market strategy and produce enablement content.
  • Filed 4 patents and won 3 company-wide hackathon prizes.
Product ManagementCollaboration Platforms

Salesforce

Director of Product Management

Jan 2019Sep 2019 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Salesforce Next Best Action is a recommendation engine that provides personalized, real-time recommendations to sales and services users of Salesforce.
  • Led the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Next Best Action and drove integrations with the Einstein Platform, Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Commerce Cloud and ISVs such as IBM Watson and Aisera. Conceptualized and built a system to provide real-time personalized recommendations by dynamically generating them from multiple sources and editing them on-the-fly based on customer characteristics. Delivered the pricing and packaging strategy at GA, in partnership with Sales and Marketing. Presented the product vision and roadmap at analyst and executive briefings and marketing conferences.
Product ManagementRecommendation Systems

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Product Manager - Power Automate

Feb 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Redmond, WA

  • Power Automate is a cloud-based service that allows users to create automated workflows between different applications and services without the need for coding. It enables organizations to automate their business processes and streamline tasks to increase productivity and efficiency.
  • Founding member of the Product team. Led the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Power Automate integrations in SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Teams including the end-to-end user experience, management APIs, and inter-org relationships. Conceptualized and brought to market the modern approvals platform. Built the user-experience and defined management APIs for data loss prevention and admin scenarios for Flow.
  • Awarded patents for Automatic permission scanning, Data loss prevention, Flow debugging, and Flow templates. Presented top audience-ranked technical sessions at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Build, Microsoft Business Application Summit, and Ready conferences.
Product ManagementWorkflow Automation

Product Manager 2 - Microsoft PowerApps

Apr 2015Jan 2016 · 9 mos · Redmond, WA

  • Power Apps is a low-code, rapid application development platform that allows business users to create custom mobile and web applications without the need for extensive programming knowledge.
  • Established the professional developer program to drive adoption from Cordova-based JS developers. Built template apps and controls for the PowerApps ecosystem. Tabulated customer requirements and specifications for the features to fit multiple line of business scenarios.
  • Led the sample apps strategy and execution and managed a team of offshore vendors and content developers to deliver first-party apps and guided tutorials for a nascent platform.
Product ManagementLow-Code Development

Product Manager 2 - Azure Tools for Visual Studio

Feb 2012Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Redmond, WA

  • Azure Tools for Visual Studio is a set of extensions that allow developers to build, deploy, and manage Azure cloud applications directly from Visual Studio. It provides a streamlined development experience with features such as integrated debugging, publishing, and testing of Azure applications.
  • Built E2E developer experiences (management, creation, testing and debugging) for Azure attach in Visual Studio. Delivered integrated tooling for Azure Storage, Mobile Services, Notification Hubs and Caching.
  • Led a successful growth hacking initiative for the MSDN Azure subscription program. Produced learning content and videos for Channel 9 (Microsoft’s external-facing developer community). Awarded a patent for the visualization of schema-less data. Promoted thrice in 3 years.
Product ManagementCloud Development

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2018Jan 2021

The University of Texas at Austin

BSEE

Jan 2008Jan 2011

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