Welcome! I’m Aaron

Product Executive | FinTech & Consumer Technology

I build and run product organizations that deliver durable growth in fintech and consumer technology.

I’m a product leader with experience owning strategy, execution, and outcomes across high-growth, regulated consumer products. I operate as a general manager: accountable for P&L, talent, and the systems that turn strategy into sustained performance.

Most of my career has been spent at the intersection of product, growth, and organizational leadership. I’ve launched 0-to-1 products, scaled teams, and made high-stakes decisions where speed, risk, and long-term durability all matter.

I’m selectively open to fractional product executive engagements for teams that need to build, reset, or scale.


What I Do

Product & Business Ownership

I lead product organizations with clear accountability for outcomes. That includes setting strategy, making prioritization and investment decisions, and owning the consequences—good or bad.

My work spans:

  • 0→1 product launches and platform expansion
  • Growth, activation, and monetization strategy
  • Operating in regulated, risk-sensitive environments
  • Translating ambiguous problems into focused execution

Organizational & Talent Leadership

I believe durable teams outperform short-term heroics.

I design organizations so the right decisions happen without constant escalation. That means:

  • Building and coaching leadership benches
  • Setting clear decision rights and operating cadence
  • Raising the median performance of the team, not just optimizing for top performers
  • Making hard talent calls early when the bar isn’t being met

The goal is an organization that scales, not one that depends on a few individuals.


Executive & Cross-Functional Leadership

I regularly operate at the executive layer. I partner with engineering, design, operations, legal, compliance, finance, marketing, and sales.

I’m comfortable:

  • Making irreversible decisions under uncertainty
  • Navigating tradeoffs between speed, risk, and trust
  • Escalating when the business is at risk and committing once a decision is made
  • Communicating clearly with executives, boards, and external partners

Experience Highlights

Chime

Senior product leader across Growth and MyPay, delivering 0-to-1 products with meaningful customer, revenue, and regulatory impact.

  • Known for combining product strategy with operational rigor
  • Led teams through ambiguity, rapid scaling, and high-visibility execution
  • Owned decisions affecting growth, monetization, and customer trust

LinkedIn

Early career experience shaping Growth product strategy and execution and leading initial LinkedIn’s member retention and resurrection efforts


Leadership Philosophy

I optimize for long-term business health, not short-term optics.

A few beliefs that guide my leadership:

  • Strong systems beat heroic effort
  • Clarity is more valuable than consensus
  • Leaders are responsible for the bench they build
  • It’s better to slow down briefly than to scale something brittle

If a product or team fails, I assume the system—or my decisions—were the root cause.


Fractional Product Leadership (Selective)

I’m selectively open to fractional product leadership engagements where my experience can create leverage quickly.

Typical engagements include:

  • 0→1 product definition and early execution
  • Product org resets or turnaround situations
  • Acting as interim product leader during transition
  • Coaching senior PMs or Directors in high-stakes environments

I engage where there is real ownership, executive sponsorship, and a clear problem to solve.


Let’s Connect

If you’re:

  • Navigating a critical product inflection point
  • Looking for experienced product leadership to help build or reset

You can reach me on LinkedIn or via email.


Based in the Bay Area. Open to local or remote opportunities.