Marisa Morby
Director Of Research at Observable
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMarisa Morby is a Director of Research and product strategist with a decade of experience turning qualitative and quantitative insights into product roadmaps for complex B2B SaaS, consumer sustainability, and patient-centered healthcare solutions. She blends deep mixed-methods expertise—ethnography, GIS, contextual inquiry—with hands-on product management and design experience to translate abstract research into measurable business outcomes. A seasoned mentor and conference speaker, she has built research practices that scale across distributed teams and guided product strategy at companies like Netlify and Observable while consulting through her own firm, Morby & Co. Based in Portland, she pairs a creative writing background with technical curiosity, often surfacing non-obvious user needs that unlock new product directions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Portland Community CollegeBachelor of Arts English; an emphasis in Creative Writing, Bachelor of Arts English; an emphasis in Creative Writing at Virginia Wesleyan University
Github Skills (26)
static-site-generator10
security10
gatsbyjs10
compiler10
graphql10
gatsby10
react10
buildbot7
netlify-functions6
netlify-cli6
nodejs5
continuous-integration5
netlify5
continuous-testing5
javascript4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
marisamorby/remote-freelancing-guide
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
marisamorby/save-the-world-with-design
Oct 2019 - Jun 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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