Andre Ottoni
Staff PM at Practice Better | AI Product Leader | Ex Indeed
Studied at Milligan College
Works at Practice Better
Available tomorrow at 9:00 PM UTC
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Andre's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $175/hr
Get help with AI Fundamentals, AI Product Design, and .
Andre’s Product Management Qualifications
Experience level: Group Product Manager
10+ people coached for Product Management
I'm a Product Leader specializing in AI-native products and revenue platforms. Over the past decade, I've shipped products at Indeed (8 years, global scale) and Housecall Pro, where I led the 0-to-1 launch of an autonomous AI voice/chat agent that scaled to thousands of paying customers and drove a 15+pp lift in conversions. Coaching and mentoring have been part of my career since early on. I was selected as one of 12 global leads for Indeed University, teaching data-driven decision-making and startup thinking to new PMs and engineers. Today I actively mentor PMs on AI-first discovery and product strategy. I don't teach from slides. I've shipped the things I coach. I've also built my own AI product OS, agent frameworks, and teaching systems — which means the frameworks I share are ones I live by. If you're a PM trying to break in, level up, or lead AI products, let's talk.
Andre can help with:
AI Fundamentals
AI Product Design
AI Roadmap Development
AI Agents
Skill Building
Strategy & Vision
AI Automation
Prototyping with AI
Freelancing
About Andre
I'm originally from just outside São Paulo, Brazil. I came to the US in 2010 on a soccer scholarship, played four years of college soccer, graduated in East Tennessee, and haven't really stopped moving since — Austin, Dublin, São Paulo, Seattle, and now Central Florida where I live with my wife Julia and our three boys. Outside of work I'm in the garage gym most days, playing soccer at least a couple times a week, and traveling whenever possible. I go for the food and the local scene — one photo at the famous thing and then I'm off looking for where the locals actually eat. I'm obsessed with being a present dad, teaching my kids how money works early, and building things that matter.
Why do I coach?
I coach because I want to empower aspiring PMs to feel confident and level up their skills.
Work Experience
Staff Product Manager, Onboarding & AI
Practice Better
March 2026 - Present
Staff Product Manager at Practice Better, leading all efforts across Onboarding and AI.
Senior Product Manager, AI
Housecall Pro
October 2024 - March 2026
- Developed and Scaled CSR AI: Led 0-to-1 launch of an autonomous AI voice/chat product; scaled to thousands of paying customers and achieved a 15pp increase in lead conversion since launch. - AI Layer Orchestration: Direct part of the "AI Layer" squad resources, responsible for the orchestration, prompting strategy, and quality of AI interactions across the platform. - AI-First Leadership: Established an AI-first culture within the revenue area, mentoring PMs on leveraging LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini) to accelerate discovery and output. - Strategic Portfolio Management: Oversee the "Lead-to-Job" flow across several squads, focusing on agentic AI to generate and convert leads into revenue-generating jobs.
Senior Product Manager, AI
Housecall Pro
May 2023 - October 2024
HCP Assist is Housecall Pro’s integrated 24/7 answering service that allows our Pros to grow their businesses while reclaiming their nights and weekends. - Redesigned Onboarding: Transformed HCP Assist onboarding from 14-day manual process to 90%+ "On The Call"(OTC), reducing average setup time to 1.5 hours. - Performance Optimization: Increased call conversion by 10pp by standardizing and digitalizing customer intake products utilized by 100+ virtual assistants. - Operational Efficiency: Reduced average call length from 3.5 to 3.0 minutes and significantly decreased agent error rates through standardized templates.
Senior Product Manager, Platform
Indeed
January 2021 - March 2023
- Developer Portal: My most recent product was a platform product for partner teams’ developers, with features such as developer docs, API reference, tutorials, integration frameworks, shared UI library, business and system monitoring and more. - Internal tool for non-tech users: I led an internal platform to enable non-technical business users to optimize Indeed's sites across all markets with no-code configurations on Indeed's products, per market/segment monitoring, providing key insights, automated A/B testing steps and more. - Metadata: Responsible for supporting and scaling the non-US efforts around metadata used for matching job seekers and jobs (ie. salary, location, taxonomy & ontology, company/industry and more). Directed managed 2 PMs (and dotted line led another 4 product managers or Sr Analysts).
Product Manager, Platform
Indeed
February 2018 - December 2020
As a Product Manager, International Platforms; I led a few different areas within Indeed's International product org. - Indeed Screening: Pitched, secured funding, and led a project run in our Sao Paulo office. The product's goal was to validate if employers in Brazil were willing to pay for resume screening services, how much they were willing to pay, what were the types of businesses we could serve, and understand scalability. I went to Brazil, hired a team of 5 HR analysts and managed them, worked cross functionally with in-office CS and Sales teams to pitch to clients (beta and beyond), and worked with our tech pod to develop the product (MVP, v1, v2 etc). - Indeed University: During the Summer of 2018, I was selected to be a Product Lead at Indeed University program. More information in the section above. - Segmentation: Expansion of Indeed's segmentation efforts across International markets by developing a relationship with the Segmentation product and ops teams, understanding global segmented needs, creating a backlog of needed features to allow International Segmented experimentation, supported analysts in running 50+ tests across several markets through 2 quarters. - Metadata: Identified Structured Data coverage gaps on International markets and developed a strategy to improve the area. Worked with Metadata teams on improving collection, processing, storage, and consumption of Metadata. User Experience (UX), Problem Solving and +13 skills
Senior Product Analyst, International
Indeed
July 2018 - September 2018
Developed long-term growth strategies for international markets, monitoring performance and implementing solutions for localization, SEO, and search quality.
Education
Milligan College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration and Management, General
2015
Activities and societies: Men's Soccer
McCombs School of Business (UT Austin)
Certificate, Data Analysis & Visualization
2019 - 2019
- Pivot Tables & VBA Scripting - Statistical Modeling & Forecasting - Python3 Programming & Data Analytics with NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, APIs - Advanced SQL with MySQL, SQLite, NoSQL, and SQLAlchemy - MongoDB & Pymongo - ETL - Web Scraping and hosting with Splinter, Flask, Bootstrap and Beautiful Soup - Front End Web Visualization (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript) - Advanced Visualization (D3, Plotly, Leafly, Matplotlib) - Tableau visualizations and dashboarding - Big Data Analytics with Hadoop , Spark, Pyspark - Machine/Deep Learning SQL