Shelly Kalish
Product Leader to Career Coach | Navigate Your Next Move
Studied at The Coaching Academy for Leaders
Works at Coach Shelly Kalish
Available Monday at 12:00 PM UTC
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Shelly's Offerings
Custom hourly · $79/hr
Get help with Career Planning, General Exploration, and .
Shelly also coaches for Product Management, General Management, Leadership Coaching, and Product Operations. View all.
Shelly’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Manager
10+ people coached for Career Coaching
I've spent over a decade leading and coaching teams inside fast-growing tech companies, from Director and Head of Product roles at organizations like American Express and Meta to advising early-stage founders. Along the way, coaching became the thread that ran through everything I did: I built onboarding and mentorship programs for new managers, ran career-planning sessions for dozens of team members, and helped leaders translate personal growth into real business outcomes using frameworks like OKRs. I know firsthand what it feels like to sit across from someone who's stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of their next move, because I've been that person's manager, mentor, and sounding board. My style is empathetic but direct: I'll ask the hard questions, help you get clear on what you actually want, and build a concrete plan to get there. Whether you're navigating a career pivot, aiming for your next promotion, or figuring out what's next, I bring both the tools of a trained coach and the real-world experience of someone who has hired, promoted, and developed people at every stage of their career.
Shelly can help with:
Career Planning
General Exploration
Interview Prep
Job Search Strategies
Leadership
Networking Strategy
Professional Networking
Resume Review
Skill Building
Shelly also coaches for Product Management, General Management, Leadership Coaching, and Product Operations. View all.
About Shelly
I've been the woman in the middle of all of it. After 20 years in product and corporate leadership, I've navigated promotions, layoffs, burnout, career pivots, and the relentless pull of mom guilt. I know what it feels like to be capable, accomplished, and still completely stuck. My role is to help you get honest about what's actually holding you back and work through it at the root, together, not just manage around it. I've sat exactly where you're sitting, and I know the difference between advice that sounds good and guidance that actually moves you forward. Information alone doesn't change behavior. Mindset and action do. That's where we focus, on what's really going on underneath the surface, so the change you make actually sticks. If you're ready to stop feeling stuck and start moving with clarity, I'd love to work with you.
Why do I coach?
For most of my career, I was deep in product and operations leadership, and while I loved the work, there were seasons where I was just surviving. Along the way, I watched talented people get reduced to their output and their title, when what actually moved them forward had nothing to do with a metric or a launch. It was the moments I helped someone see what they were capable of, like the colleague who didn't think she was ready for a promotion until we worked on her narrative and she got it. Those moments lit something up in me that nothing else in my career did. That's why I became a coach: not because I had it all figured out, but because I've been on both sides, needing someone in my corner and later becoming that person for others. I'm energized by the moment something clicks for someone and they realize the answer was already in them; my job is just to help them access it. Read more on my article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-coaching-shelly-kalish-qa6ae/
Work Experience
Career Strategist
Coach Shelly Kalish
March 2026 - Present
Career coach, facilitator and program leader helping people and organizations grow through coaching, workshops, and operational excellence. I work with: · Companies and HR leaders looking for an operational or organizational effectiveness consultant · Professionals in career transitions who want a thought partner for their next career chapter · Organizations that want to build better programs, processes, and people strategies. Partner with founders, executives, and people leaders to diagnose and fix organizational or project friction. Operationalist strategist experienced in and help teams become more structured, make decisions, align stakeholders, and develop the people inside them. Product Management, Career Development and +1 skill
Career Coach
Kadima Careers
September 2025 - May 2026
Support job seekers by helping them navigate their career journeys. Partnering with individuals to grow with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Leveraging my product expertise by offering coaching services, mock interviews, creating STAR stories, and refining your personal elevator pitch. Coaching, Career Development and +3 skills
Personal goal pursuit
Career Break
2024 - 2025
✨ Chasing dreams 🎯 Creative problem solving 🚀 Pushing boundaries 💫 Courageous risk-taking 📚 Immersive learning 🔍 Expanding knowledge 🌍 Venturing into uncharted territories 🌱 Embracing the unconventional path for growth
Head of Product Design
Sittercity
September 2023 - September 2024
Make childcare work through amazing products and with amazing people. - Set the vision and strategy for the B2C and B2B marketplace products focused on radically simplifying the way families and sitters connect and manage their relationships. - Accomplished revenue, engagement, and growth goals. - Oversaw P&L for the product and design team across our family, sitters, and platform pods. - Drove strategic revenue through identifying and executing new products for our corporate and consumer families. Team Leadership, Product Strategy and +2 skills
Head of Product Marketing, App Marketplace
2021 - February 2023
- Built product & design team from scratch focused on building new partner 0-1 platform to increase utilization of Meta's native products contributing to 40% of revenue. - Managed and coached a team of 10, defining our product processes, principles, and team culture. - Developed partner platform strategy, vision, and roadmap to increase partner ecosystem engagement and associated revenue. - Increased product adoption by 16%, resulting in $50M in revenue, by delivering B2B marketplace and incentive product to drive partner discovery and growth. - Led organization wide committee, aimed at upleveling managers to increase employee satisfaction, and created product expectations framework to better assess performance during calibrations, so that product managers could understand the skills needed for promotion, resulting in better development conversations. Strategy Alignment, Problem Solving and +9 skills
Director of Product
American Express
May 2014 - June 2021
Led the strategic development and growth of consumer mobile app with a focus on incorporating value-added benefits to grow the digital active user base from the 17m+ to 22m+ monthly visitors and uplift log-in frequency. Established team vision and strategy for 8 product managers and 2 UX/UI designers to propel product roadmap for key products under the merchant web portfolio. Orchestrated across 26 global markets servicing 2M merchants worldwide.
Shelly was also given offers to work at
Google
Innovid
Education
The Coaching Academy for Leaders
International Coaching Accreditation , Leadership & Career Coaching
2025 - 2026
Career Development Coaching, Leadership Development and +3 skills
New York University
Master's Degree, Technology Management/ System Analytics
New York University School of Engineering: Merging the fields of Psychology, Management, Team Development, and System Analytics under one umbrella to provide the framework needed to succeed in any organizational environment. Learning how to build, redesign and analyze organizational and system structures to allow for the most efficient and effective production to thrive. Understanding what is needed to be a good leader within a company and to manage teams.
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