Ali Sadat

San Francisco Bay Area, CA United States

VP Product at Medallia

Technology / Software / Internet

Passionate product leader building solutions that customers love. My key to success has been the ability to recognize patterns quickly and then build solutions to address them. Listen, observe, analyze, test hypotheses >> build great/creative solutions...repeat! Studied Biology but ended up in Software. Science is all about finding patterns. Started coding early. Developer, lead, and then Engineering manager. Found that I have a knack and passion for customer and sales so did a couple of tours of technical sales. Understanding buying patterns is key to good product development. Now back building products and in the best of both worlds role - Product Management. Listening to customers and...