Ryan Pollack
Staff Product Manager, SalesAI Forecasting at Backstory
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Pollack is a B2B SaaS product leader based in Austin with 20+ years of experience driving revenue and organizational transformation, currently shaping AI-powered forecasting as Staff Product Manager at Backstory. He has a proven track record at Indeed delivering $40M+ ARR impact through outcome-driven roadmaps, cross-functional alignment, and building GTM data platforms that raised lead conversion 500%. Skilled at turning feature teams into customer-obsessed organizations, Ryan blends continuous discovery, rapid experimentation, and executive coaching to scale product and people. He brings hands-on expertise in AI/ML and GenAI applications—having piloted agentic AI sales tools with measurable lift—and routinely ties technical vision to commercial metrics. An unexpected detail: his background spans technical writing and global team management, which underpins a rare mix of clarity, process rigor, and product intuition.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, BA, Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (20)
r-package8
shiny6
d3js5
sports-data5
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javascript4
webgl4
jstree4
bootstrapping4
plotly4
r-programming4
social-network-analysis3
regl3
data-visualization3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rpollack/baseball-team-similarity
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:62 commits, 1 push in 11 months
rpollack/leadRboard
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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