Stacie Taylor

Engineering Manager

Sacramento, California, United States14 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led AI-powered growth systems at Zapier.
Co-founded a nonprofit to mentor early-career developers.
Improved user engagement through data-driven features.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in data-driven product development.

Contact

stacie.taylor@zapier.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringProduct ManagementFrontend DevelopmentNonprofit ManagementAccount ManagementSoftware DevelopmentBankingEducationRetail Management

Other Skills

AI-powered systemsgrowth engineeringexperimentationdata foundationspersonalizationAI-assisted discoveryuniversal searchAI-driven featuresdata analysisReactNextJSBuilder.ioContentfulAvro schemasagile methodologies

About

I’m an engineering leader at Zapier, currently leading Product Data Engineering where we focus on turning product and platform data into real-time capabilities embedded directly into user-facing experiences. My teams build systems that power personalization, discovery, memory, and AI-driven features—enabling product teams across Zapier to build smarter, more adaptive products. Earlier in my career, I led growth engineering teams responsible for high-traffic surfaces and experimentation systems. I partnered closely with product, design, data, and go-to-market teams to drive activation, expansion, and time-to-value through experimentation, search, and AI-assisted discovery. Managing teams that relied on these data systems every day is what pulled me deeper into data. Seeing how much impact they had made it clear that strong, shared data foundations help many teams move faster and build better product experiences. I care deeply about building inclusive, high-performing teams, creating clarity in complex technical spaces, and delivering data platforms that translate directly into product capability and business impact.

Experience

14 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Zapier

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

As an Engineering Manager at Zapier, I lead teams building AI-powered growth systems across our highest-traffic surfaces—notably the logged-in homepage and the front door to our unified Copilot. My focus: AI-assisted discovery, universal search, and experimentation to help users activate faster and expand usage.
Highlights:
Launched Automation Search + Copilot that routes users from intent → suggested workflow → the right build surface; improved query-to-click from 33% → 77% on Zapier's logged-in homepage.
Led cross-surface Copilot routing and handoffs—moving users seamlessly from discovery to build—while partnering with engineers to stand up the measurement stack to verify intent match, truthfulness, and destination fit, setting us up for iterative prompt/routing improvements.
Shipped AI-powered personalized recommendations using onboarding and behavioral signals to surface relevant templates/content/prompts and accelerate time-to-value.
Previously, I led the engineering teams behind Zapier’s website, blog, and app directory—platforms that enabled rapid experimentation and personalization with low-latency data syncing and targeted experiences.
I reorganize ambiguous teams into focused, high-performing groups with shared ownership. I invest in inclusive culture, hiring and developing diverse talent, and aligning technical strategy to measurable business impact.

AI-powered systemsgrowth engineeringexperimentationdata foundationspersonalizationData Engineering+1

Frontend Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Created a new tool built with React and NextJS and integrated with Builder.io to support the self-serve website initiative and is a major milestone in enabling teams to create new landing pages that leverage Zapier’s design system without engineering support.
Contributed to the redesign and development of a new blog service at Zapier built with React on NextJS. Established Contentful as a content engine (replacing Django) in order to accelerate the creation of diverse content types by users across the Zapier ecosystem in a way that is scalable, flexible, and personalizable. Integrated with Parsely to generate relevant recommended content to users. Increased traffic from Organic Search to the new blog by 10%. Increased rankings by ~2%. Decreased bounce rate by 2.3% and increased session duration by up to 35%
Acted as tech lead on experimental features intended to increase usage expansion and drive upgrades.
Collaborated with data and engineering teams to organize a migration to Avro schemas in order to explicitly define our event data structures, and to emit events that are a compact, fast, binary data format that helps us reduce network I/O and storage costs.
Active committee member on the Women's Employee Resources Group (ERG).
Contribute to onboarding new hires across the organization as a steward of Zapier's values.

ReactNextJSBuilder.ioContentfulAvro schemasFrontend Development+1

Customer Champion

Feb 2019 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

The collab lab

Co-Founder, Executive Director of the Board

Oct 2019 – Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Co-founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, The Collab Lab, to help recent bootcamp grads and self-taught developers learn the collaboration side of software development.
Participants work on small teams to build a fully-functioning app to-spec in 8-weeks (React, Firebase, Netlify) leaning on agile methodologies.
Each quarter, The Collab Lab runs teams based in North America, Latin America (fully in Spanish), South Asia and European/African time zones.
We have onboarded hundreds of developers, setting them up for success and supporting them in refining their collaboration skills on software development teams.
We have recruited and onboarded more than 40 tech professionals and engineers who mentor our developers to ensure they are ready to lead their diverse teams of early-career engineers in a safe and supportive environment.

agile methodologiesteam collaborationmentorshipNonprofit Management

Coyote

Software Developer

Jul 2018 – Nov 2018 · 4 mos

Contributed to a team of engineers maintaining and enhancing Coyote, an image annotation platform funded by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Designed to increase accessibility in the arts, Coyote enables people who are blind, color-blind, or have low vision to engage with visual works through collaboratively created image descriptions.
As part of the team, I helped develop and launch a Scavenger Hunt feature within the platform, now used by several of Chicago’s most prominent museums to support inclusive and interactive visitor experiences.
Front End: HTML Slim, CSS/Sass, JavaScript
Back End - Ruby on Rails, Postgres, SQL
Additional - Git, Github, Heroku, AWS

image annotationaccessibilitySoftware Development

Social high rise

2 roles

Product Manager

Aug 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Key contributor in the creation of proprietary software that led to increased productivity and organization of the Account Management team at a social media management firm.
Determine and articulate product vision that aligns with company direction
Support a lean product development process to ensure our team is continuously testing, learning, and moving forward in a user-centric manner
Design and deliver wireframes and user stories to guide developers
Collaborate with engineers to prioritize, estimate, and size stories
Conduct user research interviews and apply feedback to feature refinements and ongoing development
Track, prioritize, and manage bugs/enhancements in a well-organized feature backlog

product visionuser researchfeature backlog managementProduct Management

Director of Account Management

Aug 2013 – Feb 2019 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Document process information using technical writing, marked-up screenshots, video tutorials, etc.
Design business processes and manage any subsequent changes to them
Train team members on new/updated processes to ensure consistency
Support account managers in their growth and development
Collect feedback on process performance to identify future process improvement projects

technical writingprocess designtrainingAccount Management

Wells fargo

Lead Teller | International Teller

Feb 2013 – Jul 2013 · 5 mos · Austin, Texas

Lead and supervise risk and the operations of teller functions to deliver exceptional customer service and colleague experience, and ensure timely completion, quality, and compliance in teller functions
Provide feedback and present ideas for improving customer service and colleague experience, and related performance management process and tools
Introduce customers to new products and services, and generate leads for other members of the sales team to close
Go the extra mile to greet customers, make them feel welcome and also engage customers to learn about their financial needs
Processes between 20-25 customer transactions each hour with no mistakes through patience, attention to detail, and the ability to follow procedures; responsible for maintaining and balancing a cash drawer containing multiple forms of currency
Handle compliance of audit operations and regulatory issues; workflow scheduling; transaction approval, teller training and/or teller supervision.

customer servicerisk managementBanking

Benedictine university

International Learning Coach

Aug 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Springfield, IL

While serving Benedictine University as a Learning Coach and Lead Writing Tutor, I have acquired experience in working with a diverse clientele of undergraduates, largely constructed of international students. These positions have required me to hone both excellent written and interpersonal communication skills, the ability to organize and synthesize information, and the confidence to express and contribute new ideas in a professional and developmental setting. I was originally hired at Benedictine University as an English Tutor. I was then promoted to the position of a Learning Coach where I worked primarily with international students on ESL, time management, and organization. In this position I faced daily office tasks such as scheduling, filing, telephone/email communications along with many other tasks. In addition, I was responsible for several newly implemented policies and created a number of manuals regarding our campuses learning software.

communicationorganizational skillsEducation

The bean counter

Shop Manager

Jun 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Springfield, Illinois

Not long after I was hired at the Bean Counter as a barista, I was promoted to shop manager. My strong leadership skills demonstrated that I was highly capable of managing and training a team of baristas. In that position, I was in charge of inventory management, daily and monthly financial reports, and product sales. I was dedicated to outstanding customer service and strictly regarded company policies.

inventory managementcustomer serviceRetail Management