Erica Liss
Founder & Principal at Ascent Product Development
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErica Liss is a founder and revenue-focused operator with 11 years of experience helping engineering consultancies and product shops turn technical excellence into predictable growth. She’s built and scaled go-to-market motion across mechanical, electrical, software, and industrial design firms—driving over $8M in annual revenue by aligning client needs with what engineering teams can actually deliver. Comfortable shifting between strategy and hands-on execution, she diagnoses broken sales processes, pricing leaks, and operational gaps to create repeatable commercial engines rather than one-off pitches. Erica also launches product experiments (including an AI-backed communication training platform) and takes a pragmatic, empathy-driven approach to client psychology and founder constraints. Based in Chicago, she advises and leads on fractional or full-time engagements where deep domain fluency and tactical follow-through are required.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Liberal Arts and Sciences, B.A., Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (7)
offline-maps4
map-matching4
android4
ios3
maps3
openstreetmap3
osrm3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mapkibera/voiceofkibera
Dec 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:3 issues in 3 years 7 months
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