Summary

Chris Makarsky

Product leader focused on building high-impact SaaS and consumer products by pairing curiosity with rigor. I combine product & business strategy, cross-functional execution, team leadership and user empathy to launch products people love โ€” and metrics that move.

Highlights

  • Built and led product organizations through scaling phases in both consumer and enterprise businesses.
  • Robust experience in building, validating, & shipping both web and mobile products that directly contribute towards user growth and sustainable revenue.
  • Strong cross-functional collaborator, especially with engineering, design, data science, R&D, customer success, and commercial teams.
2005 2010 2015 2020 2025

Experience

20 years of product leadership

Wisdom Panel, Mars SDx, Kinship 4+ yrs
San FranciscoSF, CAFountain Valley, CA Nov 2021 to Present

Director & Head of Product

  • Built and led the Wisdom product organization across platform, growth, and engagement teams in a B2B2C environment, coaching junior and senior PMs & product designers toward their next career milestones, authoring talent-development plans, and hiring talent to scale the team.
  • Drove the transition from siloed reporting products to a more-integrated enterprise platform: delivering B2B report deliverables, a shared B2B portal, and admin/ops tooling on a common data backbone to unify our pro breeder, vet, and pet-owner experiences & help scale our growing $10M+ partnerships business.
  • Led intelligent workflow automation for partner- and clinic-facing operations, including both Banfield and Antech diagnostics integrations and pet parent claim experiences, critical to both maintain & grow $5M+ partnerships and contributing towards 5+ million Wisdom tested pets by 2025.
  • Established the product org's first AI best-principles & usage policy, and coordinated with other LT stakeholders on RACI and embedded LLM/AI tooling across product discovery and delivery, in service of faster development & more personalized insights for pet owners & partners.
  • Owned end-to-end lifecycle for flagship launches (Behaviors consumer feature; v6 reporting platform, B2B platform) and distilled portfolio roadmaps into strategic narratives for executive SDx leadership and external Mars, Royal Canin, Banfield stakeholders.
Dealpath 6.5 yrs
San Francisco, CA Jun 2015 to Dec 2021

VP Product & Sr. Advisor

  • Owned product roadmap, execution, and team management as part of the core executive team.
  • Built the product that became a market leader for deal management in commercial real estate.
  • Led product growth, from landing the first paying customers ($198 check!) to seeing growth to >$10M ARR.
  • Worked closely with major CRE institutions, including Blackstone & Starwood Property Trust, to understand & deliver product features to ensure long-term engagement.
  • Advised on product strategy and scaling practices during a high-growth phase post-tenure.
Unnamed company 2 yrs
San Francisco, CA 2013 to 2015

CEO & Co-founder

  • Prototyped a new platform for group acqu-hiring. Probably still a good idea, but didn't work out this time!
  • Raised seed round; learned & internalized fundraising & storytelling basics, when to say yes vs no.
Klout 2 yrs
San Francisco, CA Jan 2011 to Dec 2012

Head of Product

  • Oversaw consumer features & redesign that led to significant user growth & platform interest.
  • Led roadmap and launches for mobile and business platforms that contributed to significant revenue growth in new channels.
Zynga 2.5 yrs
San Francisco, CA Aug 2008 to Mar 2011

Lead PM / Senior PM

  • Led product for Zynga platform components and grew Zynga Poker >10ร—.
  • Defined sustainable growth mechanics for social gaming as part of the ZWorld initiative.
  • Designed & launched Poker Blitz, the best poker game you'll never play.

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Education

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
  • 2007

    MS, Management Information Systems

  • 2005

    BS, Economics and Psychology

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