John Vitzileos

I've spent my career in product management, most recently at Hinge, where I was a Chief of Staff and now lead our growth products team. Along the way I've worked across some unconventional corners of PM: building new products at startups in the edtech and health tech spaces, leading large-scale consumer-facing products at bigger companies, and working on both internal digital transformation and external, customer-facing products. I built and launched Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs, where I stayed on afterward as an advisor on product strategy, and most recently partnered with MBA students on an experiential learning program, coaching them on product management best practices. I came into product management from a non-technical background, which means I've had to build my technical fluency the hard way -- and I think that makes me a better coach for anyone worried they're "not technical enough" to break into PM. Most of my experience is in 0-to-1 work: taking a rough idea through product discovery and turning it into something real, often with more ambiguity than resources. I've also spent a lot of time on the people side of the job -- managing and mentoring teams of PMs day-to-day, and coaching several colleagues (both inside and outside my company) into their first PM roles. If you're trying to break into product, level up in your current role, or navigate a 0-to-1 problem with an unclear path forward, that's where I can help most