Simina Pasat

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led successful product launches at GitHub.
Expert in addressing customer friction and improving experiences.
Strong leadership in diverse, high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS product leader with extensive experience in customer-centric product management.

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Diversity & InclusionProduct ManagementOrganizational LeadershipStrategic PlanningTeam BuildingProduct VisionOrganizational Effectiveness

About

Product leader with 9+ years experience of leading diverse, high performing teams. Passionate to truly understand what problems customers face and ship beautiful experiences to make their lives better. Time to market matters.

Experience

14 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Github

6 roles

VP, Product Management

Promoted

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Sr Director of Product, Copilot Enterprise

Nov 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr

Leading our investments in Copilot Enterprise and Copilot experiences on github.com, including the GA launch for Copilot Enterprise (Feb 2024)

Sr. Director of Product, Core Productivity

May 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr

Lead the product team responsible for our investments in repositories, code search and client apps (Mobile, CLI, Desktop) .

Sr. Director of Product, Communities

Promoted

May 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr

Sr. Director, Special Projects

Sep 2021 – May 2022 · 8 mos

I lead the Special Projects team at GitHub, a customer-obsessed team of PMs & engineers, with the mission to address top customer friction encountered by developers as they're using GitHub.
In the past year, the team tackled over 100 customer-facing product improvements, building excitement in the open source community (and measured through their reactions to our releases) and trust with our Enterprise customers. As a leader, I more than doubled the size of the team across PM and engineering, leading in a high performing, diverse team and helped design a solid process to continuously prioritize and release value to customers.

Director of Product, Special Projects

Dec 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Immediately after joining GitHub, I led the product launch for the free pricing tier offering developers unlimited private repositories - https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/ .
I led product and launch for GitHub Package Registry, culminating in one of the most successful product launches and betas in GitHub at that time https://github.blog/2019-05-10-introducing-github-package-registry/
I was the acquisition lead for Dependabot joining GitHub
I then started growing the Special Projects PM team, who continued important product launches such as making GitHub free for teams https://github.blog/2020-04-14-github-is-now-free-for-teams/

Microsoft

2 roles

Senior PM Manager

Apr 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Redmond, Washington

During this time, I helped taking App Center from a beta product to GA (November 2017), and in May 2018 my team was among the first partners to integrate with the new GitHub Checks API with a presence at the //build conference keynote.
In my role, I lead a team of program managers which owned few different services in App Center which allow users to build their apps in the cloud, test them on real devices and ship them to the App Store and Google Play Store. My team took customer obsession to heart, and worked together with UX researchers and designers to listen to our customers, ship new (or improved) experiences and measure their business impact.
In Summer 2018 I was part of the integration team which worked on the GitHub acquisition, and I led the Product work stream of the acquisition.

Program Manager

Oct 2014 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Redmond, Washington

Between 2014 and 2015, I was a PM on the XBOX Live team. My responsibilities included running the GameDVR offering on Xbox One, also known as "Xbox, record that", including user-facing features as well as financial projections and optimizations for a responsible usage of storage and encoding services (which were expensive at the time).
Following that, I worked as a PM on the Analytics offering of HockeyApp, and then App Center.

Hybris software

Technology Strategy & Software Engineer - Working Student

Dec 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

I was part of the Hybris Labs team and focused on exploring and prototyping new technologies and concepts in combination with eCommerce. The technologies at that time were around IoT and Voice UIs, and the prototypes I built were using mobile apps and shown to consumers at conferences around the world as a way to get early feedback to be included in the Hybris (now SAP) offering.