Fred Shaykis is a Senior Product Manager with 8+ years building data-informed SaaS experiences that boost adoption, retention, and revenue for education and impact-focused organizations. He combines analytics engineering roots from dbt Labs with hands-on product and client success leadership at KickUp, where he led cross-functional teams to ship coaching workflows, drag-and-drop dashboards, and onboarding improvements that materially increased revenue and retention. Equally comfortable in discovery and delivery, Fred has taken early-stage AI pilots from 0→1—validating product-market-channel fit through scrappy field research and rapid iteration as a fractional Head of Product. His background in public health and program evaluation gives him a rigorous, equity-centered lens for product decisions and a knack for turning messy community data into clear strategy. Colleagues note his systems obsession, nonconfrontational curiosity, and ability to make complex topics teachable—skills he applies to streamline processes and enable faster, clearer trade-offs. Based in Los Angeles, he also brings a surprising culinary creativity (excellent banana whips) and a long-running personal story about persuading adults with bar charts.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Bronx High School of Science
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology minors in Neuroscience and Global Health Policy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology minors in Neuroscience and Global Health Policy at Princeton University
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