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Malena Mesarina

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Coached 22+ candidates to offers at top tech companies.
  • Developed proprietary frameworks for product management coaching.
  • Led competitive strategy influencing product direction at Adobe.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert with a focus on coaching and competitive strategy in the EdTech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementCoachingLeadership

Other Skills

Product SenseExecutionMetricsCommunity growthContent developmentUser engagementInterview preparationEvaluation criteriaProduct StrategyUser ResearchCompetitive AnalysisMarket analysisCompetitive StrategyProduct PositioningMarket positioning

About

[I coach experienced L5–L7 Product Managers to meet and exceed the hiring bar at Meta, Google, and other top-tier tech companies.My clients land Senior, Staff, and Principal PM offers, often achieving step-change compensation increases, by learning how to demonstrate level-specific product judgment under real interview conditions.This is not template coaching.I train experienced PMs to:• Signal executive-level thinking in Product Sense and Execution• Make sharp decisions under ambiguity and defend tradeoffs clearly• Allocate time correctly (Google ≠ Meta)• Match answers to the actual evaluation criteria used by interviewers• Communicate leadership stories that align with the level they’re targetingMost candidates fail not because they lack experience. They fail because they don’t signal it at the altitude required.Meta and Google are my calibration anchors. The same hiring-bar signals transfer to other top-tier product orgs (e.g., Stripe, Uber, Airbnb, TikTok) and high-bar startups, and we then tailor for your specific loop.Company-calibrated preparation:• Meta: full-stack Product Sense (goal → segmentation → pain points → solutions → tradeoffs → metrics) with deep reasoning and crisp communication• Google: strategy clarity, razor-sharp prioritization, and speed under pressure• Amazon: principles-first narratives, ownership, and metrics rigor• AI-native roles: AI Product Sense covering model-behavior tradeoffs, evaluation/metrics, failure modes, and product decision-making (not architecture deep dives)Every engagement includes hiring-bar scorecards calibrated to L5 vs L6 vs L7, so you know when you’re ready before entering the loop.Results:21+ documented offers at Meta, Google, Amazon, Uber, Pinterest, Coinbase, DoorDash, and more.Founder of StellarPeers:• 70,000+ PMs across 30+ countries• 70+ member testimonials from PMs who earned offers at top-tier companiesI work exclusively with senior-level PM candidates (no early-career coaching).If you’re preparing for Senior, Staff, or Principal PM interviews and want company-calibrated coaching, send me your target level + company.]

Experience

24 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Bold

Product Manager (Incubation) | BOLD

Sep 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Incubated a new interview prep product to increase retention. BOLD is the #1 provider of resume building products
  • Incubated a new interview-prep product to improve retention for the #1 resume-building provider
  • Built business case, product strategy, MVP scope, and requirements
  • Led user research + competitive analysis; facilitated ideation workshops for differentiated features
  • Ran pricing tests and modeled projected subscription lift to inform go/no-go decisions
Product StrategyUser ResearchCompetitive AnalysisProduct Management

Stellarpeers

Founder & PM Interview Coach | StellarPeers

Mar 2016Present · 10 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • COACHING IMPACT
  • Coached PM candidates to 22+ documented offers across Meta, Google, Amazon, Uber, Pinterest, Coinbase, DoorDash, and more (per member testimonials)
  • Developed proprietary frameworks for Product Sense, Execution, Metrics, Estimation, Tradeoffs, and Leadership; tailored to candidate style + company rubric
  • Delivered 300+ 1:1 mock interviews and led structured prep to accelerate confidence, clarity, and performance under pressure
  • PLATFORM + PRODUCT IMPACT
  • Took StellarPeers from idea → launch → growth: 60,000+ users, 30+ countries
  • Enabled high-volume practice: ~1,000 mocks/month
  • Led community and content-led growth: 500 community coaching events, 95+ PM solved cases; built audiences of 3K+ Meetup members, 3K+ Medium followers, and ~30K monthly readership
  • Developed StellarPeers prep content from the ground up.
CoachingProduct SenseExecutionMetricsLeadershipProduct Management

Adobe systems

2 roles

Product Strategy Manager, Competitive Intelligence

Jan 2011Jan 2017 · 6 yrs · San Jose, CA

  • Led competitive strategy across multiple product groups; advised senior leadership on market shifts and product positioning
  • Conducted TAM + competitive gap analyses that informed product direction and expansion into adjacent opportunities
  • Delivered trend analysis that influenced leadership to re-platform a social product into a content marketing product
  • Partnered with product teams to translate customer needs into requirements (e.g., new metrics dashboard)
  • Defined success metrics and analytics infrastructure for a new product; built a model predicting subscription conversion at launch
Competitive StrategyMarket AnalysisProduct PositioningProduct Management

Product Management Intern

Jan 2010Jan 2010 · 0 mo · San Jose, CA

  • Defined KPIs and developed analytics infrastructure to monitor and predict the success of a new Adobe product

Hewlett-packard laboratories

3 roles

Senior Research Engineer

Jan 2006Jan 2009 · 3 yrs

  • Invented and prototyped solutions for the education and location aware sensor markets.

Project Manager

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

  • Managed a team of four researchers to invent new RFID and sensor technologies that resulted in 8 patents and 3 published papers.

Research Engineer

Jan 2002Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

  • Brought on board to research and develop new technologies in the area of indoors localization and RFID sensor technologies.

Princeton university, computer science department

Hardware Engineer

Jul 1993Oct 1995 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • • Designed and developed hardware that enable cutting edge research on memory-based message passing; co-authored three published papers.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2007Jan 2010

UCLA

Master's Degree — Computer Science

Boston University

Bachelor's Degree — Electrical Engineering

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