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.
10 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 (43)
static-site-generator10
fastest10
graphql10
compiler10
frontend10
gatsby10
react10
orbit8
goodies8
netlify-functions7
netlify7
gatsbyjs7
earth6
nodejs6
orbital-mechanics6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
marisamorby/remote-freelancing-guide
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
marisamorby/jamsnack
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:22 PRs, 16 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 8 months
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