Giselle T.

Giselle T.

5.0

Pre & Post IPO | Product Operations & Strategy Lead

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Studied at INSEAD

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Worked at Zippi

Available tomorrow at 5:30 PM UTC

Usually responds within 4 hours

May be available on weekends with advanced scheduling

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Giselle’s Product Operations Qualifications

Experience level: Manager

Open to working with clients outside the U.S.

Giselle has helped clients get into these companies:

Led the ProdOps team at VTEX (e-commerce SaaS which IPO'd in 2021), focusing on: - Leading the quarterly planning process, including OKR implementation and Roadmap alignment to company priorities - Defining the Product Strategy stack and artifacts, alongside Product and Engineering Leadership - Orchestrating the Roadmap Planning process across the entire Product organization (40+ teams) - Leading trainings and rolling out best-practices across product and engineering teams If you'd like help with any topic ProdOps related, or just want to chat about how to transition from ProdOps into PM (I did that), I can help!

Giselle also coaches for MBA, Business Strategy & Operations, College, and Sales Strategy & Operations. View all.

About Giselle

I'm Brazilian, but moved to the USA when I was 19 and spent the next 10 years there. During that time, I lived in Indiana (during college), Chicago, San Francisco, and NYC. I also studied abroad in Italy, and did my MBA in Singapore & France. So if you have any questions about moving around or living abroad, I can help :) Now about my career: I started my career doing Technology & Strategy consulting focused on Big Data & Machine Learning projects for healthcare. Later on, I specialized in innovation consulting, working with clients to plan for technologies that were disrupting / challenging their industries' status quo. During 4 years post-consulting, I worked at Google Cloud, in roles that ranged from Sales Operations to Product launch and M&A. I left Google to get my MBA at INSEAD (top MBA program outside of the USA, currently ranked #2 globally) in 2020. After the MBA, I transitioned into Product. For 2.5 years, I worked in Product Operations and Product Management at VTEX (top e-commerce SaaS platform in South America), and then led the Product team at Zippi (post-Series A B2C Fintech startup providing credit to micro-entrepreneurs). In April 2023, I left Zippi to take a career break / sabbatical. I traveled for 6 months (in Asia and the Middle East) and focused on personal growth and on reconnecting with myself. This led me to several realizations regarding the next steps I want to take - one of which was my love for coaching. I had never formally coached in the past, but had informally mentored several people at Google and VTEX, and coached fellow MBA candidates to help land roles in Big Tech. I draw great fulfillment from helping others achieve their goals, and plan on making this a bigger part of my career going forward. I hope you'll join me in this endeavor!

Why do I coach?

I love to develop others and feel very fulfilled when I can help someone live up to their potential. I personally find it super frustrating whenever I feel "under-utilized" (i.e. only using 80% of my potential) so I've always made it a point with my mentees & team members to have 100% clarity on their goals and plans to achieve them. I've also worked with coaches before and benefitted greatly from the work we did together - these experiences helped me build the courage to leave Google in order to pursue my MBA, as well as to make the decision to return to Brazil post-MBA, and transition into Product Management. (On a personal note, since I have lived in many different countries and have a broad network, I like to connect people and make introductions that will benefit both ways. I've helped several of my friends find jobs by making introductions, and even a couple of life partners!)

Work Experience

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Product Leader

Zippi

September 2022 - April 2023

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Group Product Manager

VTEX

January 2021 - September 2022

Product Ops / Senior PM / Group PM

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Go-to-Market

Google

January 2016 - January 2020

Strategy / BizOps / M&A / Product Launch

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Consultant

Deloitte Consulting

July 2013 - January 2016

Giselle was also given offers to work at

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    Amazon

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    Shopee

Education

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INSEAD

MBA

2020 - 2020

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University of Notre Dame

Bachelors, Finance

2009 - 2013

Giselle was also personally admitted to

  • New York University Logo

    New York University

  • Babson College Logo

    Babson College

  • University of Miami Logo

    University of Miami

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