Sam Montoya
AI Product Manager - Discovery at Angel
Las Vegas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Montoya is a Staff AI Product Manager with 11 years of experience building ML-powered search, discovery, and personalization systems end-to-end. He has repeatedly turned evaluation and platform work into business impact—rebuilding Weedmaps search into a hybrid BM25+embeddings engine that boosted search-to-order conversion 129% and cutting dead-end searches 57%, and launching MGM’s Recommendations-as-a-Service that unlocked $100M+ in annual revenue. Comfortable across hybrid retrieval, Learning to Rank, RAG/agentic pipelines, LLM evaluation, and model monitoring, he writes the metrics and governance that let teams confidently retire expensive vendors and ship in-house solutions. Sam also has a track record of rapid 0-to-1 delivery—shipping a restaurant recommender at MGM in 30 days and scaling Pocket’s personalization to 180M+ Firefox users for $5M incremental revenue. Based in Las Vegas, he blends product leadership with hands-on ML platform strategy and a knack for turning evaluation infrastructure into compounding advantage.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Product Leadership, Product Leadership at ReforgeAI Product Management Bootcamp, AI Product Management, AI Product Management Bootcamp, AI Product Management at MavenAI Product Manager Nanodegree, AI Product Manager Nanodegree at UdacityAI Product Management Certification, AI Product Management Certification at Product Faculty
English
Github Skills (1)
react3
Github contributions (5)
sammontoya/sam_profile
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 year
sammontoya/hi_lo_game
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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