Brad Abrams

Product Manager

Palo Alto, California, United States28 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Microsoft Copilot's development for generative AI.
Incubated Google Assistant's transformational features.
Inducted into NC State University CSC Alumni Hall of Fame.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with extensive experience in AI and developer technologies.

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Product PlanningTechnology EvangelistSoftware Product ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware DesignScalabilityCloud ComputingSaaSSoftware DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesArchitectureWindows Azure.NETBig DataMobile Applications

About

Brad Abrams is a seasoned Product Manager at Anthropic, spearheading efforts to integrate powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) into customer applications. With over two decades of experience in the software industry, Brad has been at the forefront of AI and developer technologies at some of the world's leading tech companies. Career Highlights Anthropic: Currently driving the integration of advanced LLMs into customer-facing applications. Microsoft: Led the Turing team's work on generative AI, contributing to Microsoft Copilot. Google: Group Product Manager for Google Assistant developer platform Launched Actions on Google and Dialogflow Contributed to Google Assistant Personality and Kids and Family initiatives Helped establish Google Cloud Platform Microsoft (Earlier Career): Founding member of Common Language Runtime and .NET Framework teams Achievements and Contributions Author of several books on .NET development Regular speaker at tech conferences and events Inducted into the North Carolina State University CSC Alumni Hall of Fame (2018) Education and Volunteer Work B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University Volunteer Computer Science tutor at Foothills Community College AP Computer Science teacher through the TEALS Program Personal Interests Brad is an avid learner, always exploring new frontiers in AI and software development. He enjoys science fiction, hiking, and camping in his R1S. His passion for technology is matched by his commitment to education and community service. Connect with Brad LinkedIn: Brad Abrams Twitter: @brada Fun fact: Brad used Claude, an AI assistant, to help craft and refine this biography.

Experience

28 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Anthropic

Product Manager

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole.
https://www.anthropic.com/company.

Microsoft

Partner Product Manager

Mar 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

Brad joined the Turning Machine Learning team to led a small incubation effort that successfully grew up to become the large language model powered Microsoft Copilot, experience. He was responsible for defining the vision, strategy and roadmap for Microsoft Copilot, as well as driving the development and launch of key features such as search grounding, voice input and output, answer cards, conversation style selection, image creation and understanding, 3P plugins, and chat history personalization.

Google

2 roles

Group Product Manager - Google Assistant

Aug 2016 – Mar 2022 · 5 yrs 7 mos

Led team of 13+ Product managers supporting 100+ software engineers.
Incubate transformational change in human-computer understanding with Large Language Model (LaMDA)
Designed, launched and grew the highest retention feature in response to COVID trends
Designed, launched and grew 3rd party platform from 0 to over 50k Actions
Drove cross functional collaboration across Business development, Developer Marketing, Consumer Marketing, Developer Relations and technical product support
Initiated Assistant Startup Investment fund
Drove successful acquisition and integration of API.AI (now Dialogflow)

Group Product Manager - Google Cloud Platform

Oct 2010 – Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 10 mos

Led team of 10+ Product managers supporting 100+ software engineers.
Designed and Launched unified cloud managed console (console.cloud.google.com)
Defined use cases and prioritized work across internal and external google developer infrastructure (bug tracking, code hosting, code review, code editing, production debugging)
Initiated and designed Mobile App for Cloud Management
Drove successful acquisition and integration of a startup (developer tooling)
Led a complete overhaul of Identity, Access Management, and Billing Infrastructure
Defined product vision for Application Performance Management for Google Cloud Platform
Design, Launched and grew Google API servicing platform