New York, NY, USA

Colin G.

Product leader | ex-Slack, Google

I'm an experienced product leader and advisor with over 16 years of experience building amazing products for both consumers and enterprise customers.

My specialty is enterprise software and helping startups scale their business through product-led growth. This includes partnering with customers in the discovery process, crafting a product strategy & roadmap, and building a culture of consistent project execution.

I've spent the past 2+ years doing fractional and advisory work with a number of startups, mostly in the AI space. Prior to that, I was a Senior Director of Product at Slack where I helped build the Enterprise Grid product from the ground up and scale it to several hundred million in revenue. Earlier in my career I was a PM at Google where I worked on Android and Google Maps.

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Developer Tools

Slack Product Management SaaS Computer Science Mobile Applications User Experience Software Development

Fractional CPO rates

Work

Slack Connect Product Strategy

slack.com

In my final year at Slack I led the Slack Connect team which included rebuilding the product strategy and roadmap. Slack Connect is a critical feature for Slack because it's how organizations use Slack to work with their partners, customers, vendors, etc. It turns Slack into a network of organizations who collaborate with each other.

I crafted the new strategy through a process that included discussions with the executive team to align on the long term vision, meetings with customers to understand their needs, and feedback from many internal stakeholders. I then worked with the product managers on my team and our cross-functional partners to turn the strategy into a product roadmap for the next year and we began building it.

Product Strategy Product Roadmap Planning Strategic Vision Team Building

Experience

Oct 2023 — Present

Sweep

Advisor

Sweep is a Cursor alternative built for JetBrains IDEs like IntelliJ, PyCharm, and Android Studio.

Advised Sweep on product-market fit and JetBrains IDE integration strategy.
Helped refine UX for an AI coding assistant targeting IntelliJ, PyCharm, and Android Studio.
Guided go-to-market and YC launch positioning for a self-hostable AI coding assistant.
Provided feedback on scaling codebase understanding for very large repositories (>20k files).

Sep 2024 — Nov 2025

Tezi AI

Fractional Product Manager

Tezi offers AI agents & assistants for the recruiting workflow.

Owned product roadmap for Tezi’s AI recruiting agents and self-serve offerings.
Defined model-routing and task separation to use different models for reasoning versus creative tasks.
Collaborated with recruiters to encode best practices into Max's candidate interactions.
Worked on fairness and compliance features, including external bias audits and regulatory readiness.

Nov 2015 — Aug 2022

Slack

Senior Director of Product

On a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.

Product lead for Slack Connect responsible for growing overall usage of Connect.
Spent six years helping lead development of the Enterprise Grid product from the ground up and making Slack successful with enterprise organizations.

Oct 2015 — Aug 2022

Slack

Senior Director of Product

Slack is the productivity platform that empowers everyone with no-code automation and AI, makes search and knowledge sharing seamless, and keeps teams connected and engaged. Around the world, Slack is the platform companies trust and people love to use.

Took over as product lead for Slack Connect and was responsible for rebuilding the product strategy and PM team. I reset the team by hiring 3 PMs, redefining the product strategy and roadmap, and delivering features to unblock enterprise customers
Led the product team responsible for Slack’s administrative experience and analytics, with a focus on large enterprise customers. Scaled adoption to deployments of 5,000 to 100,000 users
One of two product managers responsible for the initial creation of Slack’s Enterprise Grid product. I worked across all aspects of the product and was responsible for the roadmap, product requirements, running customer pilots, and project execution

Jan 2014 — Oct 2015

Google

Product Manager

Product manager for local reviews on the Google Maps & Local search team
Responsible for growing the community of users who review local businesses on Google
Working on an effort to allow users to more easily fix problems with Google's structured local data

Dec 2013 — Oct 2015

Google

Product Manager

Google's mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Product manager for local reviews on the Google Maps & Local search team
Responsible for growing the community of users who review local businesses on Google
Working on an effort to allow users to more easily fix problems with Google's structured local data

Dec 2011 — Dec 2013

Foursquare

Product Manager

Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.

Product manager for user-generated content: check-ins, tips, photos.

Nov 2011 — Dec 2013

foursquare

Product Manager

Foursquare's mission is to create technology that constructs meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places.

Product manager for user-generated content: check-ins, tips, photos

Oct 2009 — Dec 2011

Google

Product Manager

Google's mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Product Manager on the Android OS team responsible for the messaging, voice/video apps, and device setup experience

Jun 2007 — Aug 2007

Goldman Sachs

Technology Summer Analyst

Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, and investment banking and management services.

Built software for the CDS trading team.

Colin G.

Product leader | ex-Slack, Google