Summary
Andre Piazza is a Principal Product Manager and product-marketing leader with 20+ years of experience building and launching global high-tech offerings across enterprise software, services, cloud, SaaS and IoT. He has a consistent track record of turning market insight into revenue—launching a $1B global services offering, creating $70M product streams, and driving multi-million dollar gains via differentiated support and enablement programs. A cross-functional builder, he’s led 30+ person teams, launched 200+ products with 100+ partners, and opened Rainmaking’s first US office while standing up sales enablement and CRM programs. Andre pairs engineering roots and program management rigor from his early career at Dell with modern marketing practice (altMBA, Akimbo workshops) to align product, sales and customer success for measurable impact. He thrives in constrained customer-access markets by designing go-to-market motions that convert insight into growth and lasting customer relationships. Based in Austin, he is also a co-founder at Octanage, combining entrepreneurial instincts with enterprise-scale execution.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Seth Godin's altMBA Change Leadership and Marketing, Seth Godin's altMBA Change Leadership and Marketing at altMBA
The Copy Workshop Creative Writing, The Copy Workshop Creative Writing at Seth Godin's Akimbo Workshops
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical Engineering at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French