Summary
Harsh Shah is a product marketing leader with 11+ years of go-to-market and operating experience across startups and scale-ups, currently leading product marketing groups at Canva. He has led cross-functional teams at Google and Socotra, launching products and programs that contributed to more than $400M in revenue and personally closed the company’s first seven-figure deal. A native Californian with work experience in Europe and Latin America, he pairs global market instincts with deep demand-gen, content, PR, partner, and field marketing expertise. Active angel investor in Series A–C startups (Hasura, OpenPhone, Decodable, Flatfile, Upsolver), he brings operator empathy to boards and early-stage product strategy. Outside work he’s an adventurous, world-traveling triathlete and surfer—evidence of a hands-on, curious leadership style that once led him from a Michelin kitchen to a solo 4,500-mile African overland trip. He’s equally comfortable translating product technicalities into scalable marketing motions and rolling up his sleeves to close complex enterprise deals.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Exchange Student at Utrecht University
Executive Education, Executive Education at INSEAD
University of California, Los Angeles