Diana Hsieh
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Diana has deep experience shipping products from day 0 to production. Diana has functioned as the first product manager at two startups—focused on infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS, and cloud—where she brought both products out of beta. Diana can work cross-functionally with multiple teams—managing the development and go-to-market of numerous product offerings. Prior to her product experience, Diana was a venture capitalist, allowing her to combine technical expertise with business strategy.
Work Experience
Director of Product
TimescaleDB
- Brought the product from beta to 1.0 and shipped the first enterprise release and first managed the cloud platform.
- Worked directly with founders to research product-market fit by engaging with early customers, marketing the product with a community of users, validating the new product offerings, and testing market demand.
- Collaborated with the marketing team on event talks, marketing collateral, website positioning, and GTM planning. GTM included product positioning, sales demos, beta waitlists, and blog posts.
- Interacted with key strategic customers and brought product requirements back to the engineering team.
- Designed the infrastructure needed to monitor product usage and metrics.
- Presented at key developer conferences to drive the adoption of the product.
Product Manager
Cockroach Labs
- Worked on early product-market fit research and collaborated with design and marketing teams to identify the most compelling positioning for the initial product.
- Collaborated with founders to build a roadmap for the 1.0 product and subsequent enterprise release as the only PM (first 12 months).
- Managed the product feature development, identified user stories, and prioritized features with an (initially) 20+ engineering team.
- Validated the initial value proposition with ~20 customers.
- Worked with key customers as design partners to ship the first enterprise features.
Associate
Norwest Venture Partners
- Sourced and evaluated startups in the enterprise software sector.
- Tracked and managed key metrics for the portfolio of investments.
- Researched and analyzed investment opportunities to present to the investment team via investment memos.
- Developed investment theses for certain sectors including robotics, developer tools, and a vertical SaaS.
Project History
Cloud Platform
https://www.timescale.com/cloud-signupShipped the initial version of this cloud platform—managing the go-to-market (GTM) delivery alongside the sales team in terms of compiling a beta list and launching a beta release.
I was the product manager on this product—leading the efforts to develop the product and GTM it.
TimescaleDB Tutorial
https://github.com/dianasaur323/timescale_tutorialDesigned and wrote code for the tutorial to be used during a developer conference lecture. Delivered the 3-hours training session to 30+ developers.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA, United States
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT - Cambridge, MA, United States
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