About
I enjoy building things and leading teams to make an impact on the world.
I studied Computer Science at Harvard, then spent a year in Tajikistan with the Aga Khan Development Network and worked as a business analyst at McKinsey before moving into product. Since 2011 I’ve built products for ad tech, customer advocacy and financial analytics: Marin SmartGrid at Marin Software in San Francisco and Portland, AdvocateHub at Influitive in Toronto, and SignalOne at McKinsey’s PriceMetrix, where I went on to lead the product team. At Meta I worked on privacy across WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.
Today I’m a Director at PathIvy, using data and product management to help students succeed in high school, college and beyond. I’ve had a personal website since high school, and this one has collected my writing for more than a decade.
Experience
2023 – Present
Director, PathIvy
Using data-driven and product management techniques to help students succeed in high school, college and beyond.
2022 – 2023
Product Manager, Meta
Worked in Ads & Monetization on privacy. Oversaw the privacy requirements for an initiative of more than 100 engineers spanning WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.
2017 – 2022
Head of Product, PriceMetrix, part of McKinsey & Company
Previously Director of Product Management, 2017 – 2019
Led the product team of three product managers, a designer and a technical writer at McKinsey’s financial analytics business. Owned the product vision, strategy and roadmap for SignalOne, its risk and compliance offering.
2016 – 2017
Director of Product Management, Influitive
Owned AdvocateHub, Influitive’s core customer advocacy product. Launched a B2C referrals product for e-commerce platforms like Shopify, peer-to-peer messaging between users, and a reporting dashboard built on Looker.
2011 – 2015
Senior Product Manager, Marin Software
Launched Marin SmartGrid, search and analytics technology for exploring hundreds of millions of pieces of advertising data at real-time speeds. Took a new search analytics platform from inception to launch with back-end and front-end engineering teams, in San Francisco and later Portland.
Earlier career
2008 – 2010
Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company
2007 – 2008
Communications Officer, Aga Khan Development Network, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
2006
Sales & Trading internship, Lehman Brothers
B.A. Computer Science, Harvard University
Elsewhere
Writing, media and mentions outside this site.
Things I wrote
Lives Lived: Jehangir Saleh, 28
The Globe and Mail
2007
The Harvard Crimson
Things I contributed to
2007
The Harvard Crimson
The Ismaili · Archived copy
Things I was mentioned in
Influitive, Video
1999
Here's $100,000, plus opportunity to learn lessons about life, money
Atlanta Business Chronicle
2014
The Eyeopener
A few things I like
My favorite books:
- Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande
- The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss
- Follow Your Heart, Andrew Matthews
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath