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The person behind the products. With some things the resume doesn't tell you. Everything the resume doesn't tell you.

Tanya Gupta

Tanya Gupta

Product Manager

Professional Translator of Chaos

Product Leader with P&L responsibility and 5+ years experience managing diverse portfolios. I'm the person who translates between "Engineering says 6 weeks" and "Sales promised it yesterday." Driving teams to deliver solutions (not products) in high-stakes environments. Proven track record of designing GTM Strategies and leveraging AI to build new products that scale.

5+ Years of Product Years of "Managed Chaos"
3 Industries Navigated Times Re-Learning Everything
100+ User Interviews Conducted Users Will Love This

My Operating System My Actual Operating System

01

Talk to Humans Actually Talk to Humans

Understand when, where and how are people building their own solutions to problems. Solve them at scale.

I talk to actual humans before writing a PRD. Revolutionary, I know. You'd be amazed how many PMs skip this step and then wonder why nobody uses their feature.

02

Break the Market Find the Actual Problem

Dig into psychological, organizational, and market constraints to position the product in a blue ocean.

The stated problem is never the real problem. "We need a dashboard" actually means "my VP wants to look smart in board meetings." Finding the actual constraint saves months.

03

Design for Systems Stop Building Frankenproducts

Ask how does each decision fits into stakeholders' broader life, ecosystem, and business model.

Anyone can ship a feature. The hard part is not creating a Frankenstein product in the process. I think about how things connect, or you end up with 47 settings pages.

04

Measure What Matters Vanity Metrics Are a Trap

Identifying the right metrics to build feedback loops that actually inform iteration. Data, data, data.

DAU means nothing if your users are rage-clicking. I care about metrics that actually tell you if people's lives got better, not just if they opened the app.

Skills & Expertise Things I'm Allegedly Good At

Strategic Planning Scope Negotiation (AKA Saying No)
Stakeholder Management Slack Thread Archaeology
Data-Driven Decision Making Storytelling (Data Can Say Anything)
Cross-functional Leadership Meeting Survivor
Agile Methodologies Agile Theater Direction
Product Analytics Dashboard Gazing Certification
PRD & Spec Writing Docs Nobody Reads (But Always Needs)
Roadmap Planning Fiction Writing (And making it Reality)

Where I Find Inspiration What's Actually on My Feed

The substacks, books, events, and experiences that shape how I think about product. The stuff I consume instead of sleeping at a reasonable hour.

Substacks and newsletters I follow

My Inbox, Curated My Inbox, Curated

Newsletters that sharpen my product thinking and keep me plugged into what matters.

The newsletters I actually open instead of letting them pile up to 4,327 unread.

  • Lenny's Newsletter by Lenny Rachitsky
  • Ask a Chief of Staff by Clara Ma
  • Hardware FYI Substack
  • Supra Insider Podcast by Ben Erez, Marc Baselga
Books and articles I'm reading

What I'm Reading My Nightstand Stack

Books and long-reads that have shaped my approach to product, systems thinking, and leadership.

Books I've actually finished, not just bought and displayed on a shelf to look smart.

  • Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows
  • Inspired — Marty Cagan
  • The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick
  • Build — Tony Fadell
Events and communities I participate in

Events & Community Where I Actually Network

Conferences, meetups, and communities where I learn from other practitioners and share ideas.

Places where I swap war stories with other PMs and realize we're all living the same chaos.

  • ProductCon, Mind the Product, NYC Tech Week
  • Lenny's Product Leader Dinners, NYC Hardware Meetup
  • TechLadies NYC, Agave Haus, Women Applying AI
  • Global Hackathons, Virtual and In-person
Travel experiences that shaped my perspective

Travel & Perspective Places That Rewired My Brain

Traveling across cultures has deepened my empathy and taught me that context shapes everything.

Nothing humbles your assumptions like trying to use a transit app in a language you don't speak.

  • India is where jugaad meets scale
  • Korea with its design obsession in every detail
  • Europe has a privacy-first product mindset
  • NYC hustle implies if it works here, it works anywhere

Let's Connect Let's Talk (If You Made It This Far)

Always open to opportunities. Let's discuss how I can drive impact for your organization. Hire me if you appreciate PMs who've actually shipped things and aren't afraid to admit when stakeholder alignment is a myth.

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