Summary
Finn Smith is a Senior Product Manager in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building data-first products for marketplaces, nonprofits, and enterprise B2B platforms. Currently leading identification and intent data at Demandbase, he specializes in data modeling and schema design that make AI and account-intelligence features reliable at scale. He’s also a founder—building Instant Currency, a practical fintech productivity tool that demonstrates his bias for user-focused automation and clever data formatting. Previously he monetized global nonprofit datasets at Candid, launching marketplace integrations and documentation platforms that unlocked seven-figure enterprise deals. Finn combines policy and product training (MPA, Vassar) with hands-on SQL and analytics enablement, and has a track record of reducing friction in cross-border workflows and product operations. Notably, he frames AI product failure as a data-layer problem and builds the infrastructure to fix it.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA International/Global Studies, BA International/Global Studies at Vassar College
MPA, MPA at NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
English, Italian, Spanish