Senior Product Marketing Leader

Andrew Ishak

Most platform revenue is not lost to a bad product. It is lost to a product nobody can explain. I make complex platforms legible, then make them sell. Fifteen years doing it across ads, payments, devices, and developer tools at Snap, Google, Meta, and Accenture.

15+
Years in product marketing
4
Platform companies at scale
1
AI product shipped solo
About

I make hard things explicable.

I came into product marketing from the wrong end, and it turned out to be the right one. I started in market research at Ipsos, reading buyers for a living before I ever launched anything. Then devices and telecom across EMEA, then payments, then ads platforms in the Bay Area. I learned to read a market before I learned to ship a product, and that order still shapes how I work.

What I do now is narrow. I take platforms that are genuinely hard to explain, ads infrastructure, monetization APIs, developer tooling, and I make them legible enough that a sales team can sell them and a buyer can say yes. The pattern rarely changes: find the insight, build the narrative, ship the launch, then hold the work to a number.

At Snap I own go-to-market for Sponsored AR Ads and Enterprise Services, where the hard part is almost never the campaign. It is getting Product, Sales, and Creative to agree on who we are selling to before anything ships. At Google I led GTM for Fitbit, including subscription positioning for Fitbit Premium. At Meta I ran the Business Partners program and the packaging behind its monetization APIs.

I hold an MBA in Strategic Management from Maastricht University, I am a DBA candidate, and I am certified through Reforge, PMA, and CIM.

What I believe
01
Illegibility is a revenue problem, not a comms problem.
When a platform underperforms, the deck is usually not the issue. The product has never been made explicable to the person who has to sign for it.
02
Positioning that has not survived a sales call is a hypothesis.
Messaging written in a research deck and never carried into the field is unfinished work. I would rather lose the argument in front of a customer than win it in a review.
03
If you cannot query it, you do not own it.
I write the SQL and build the dashboards myself, largely because positioning arguments go better when you brought the data rather than requested it.
How I describe my range

Product marketing is not one job, and most teams need a different part of it at different moments. These are the five modes I work in, in my own words rather than anyone's official framework.

Architect
Positioning, narrative, and category structure. The story before the campaign.
Strategist
GTM motions, segmentation, and market entry. Where to play and how to win.
Operator
Launches, enablement, and lifecycle execution. The plan turned into shipped, measured work.
Activator
Content, demand, and field activation. The message put in front of the market.
Connector
Alignment across product, sales, marketing, and exec. Influence without authority.
Signature Work

Where it held up.

Solo build · AI
Briefly
AI competitive intelligence tool, built and shipped alone
  • Designed, built, and shipped a working AI competitive intelligence product end to end, without an engineering team.
  • Built it because the competitive research I needed as a PMM was slow, manual, and stale by the time it reached a battlecard.
  • The reason I can position AI products credibly is that I have had to make the tradeoffs myself: scope, model behavior, cost, and what to cut.
Snap · Growth & GTM
AR Ads Monetization
Sponsored AR Ads and Enterprise Services
  • Launched embedded payment flows inside Sponsored AR Ads, the initiative behind the ROAS and funnel gains detailed under Experience.
  • Rebuilt the messaging and positioning framework across the AR ad line so agencies, developers, and direct advertisers were finally sold the same story.
  • Took AR Enterprise Manager and Lens Web Builder to market, and worked with Product and IT to redesign the advertiser onboarding flow that was quietly costing us launches.
Meta · Product Marketing
Business Partners Program
Monetization APIs and partner ecosystem
  • Owned end-to-end go-to-market for the Business Partners ecosystem.
  • Repackaged and repositioned the monetization APIs for technical buyers rather than marketers, driving steady YoY API revenue growth.
  • Grew partner engagement 44% by rewriting how the program communicated value to partners.
  • Ran the pricing and onboarding experiments in the AR/VR ecosystem, where the winning variant became the default entry path.
Accenture at eBay · PMM Strategist
Feedback & Reviews Relaunch
Two-sided marketplace trust
  • Led go-to-market for the Feedback and Reviews upgrade. Reviews grew 3X in four weeks.
  • Built the trust initiative by mapping where the buyer journey actually broke, then arguing for the feature changes that fixed it.
  • Launched Google Pay card integrations with HSBC and Citibank in parallel, coordinating across two banks and two product orgs.
Experience

Fifteen years of platform GTM.

Sep 2023 - Present
Snap Inc.
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Growth & Go-to-Market, AR Ads
  • Own GTM for Sponsored AR Ads and Enterprise Services, directing multimillion-dollar pipeline.
  • Lifted advertiser ROAS 25% and improved the conversion funnel in parallel.
  • Build the executive dashboards in Tableau and Power BI that the GTM decisions get made from.
  • Fold competitive intelligence directly into sales enablement, which is usually where positioning either survives contact with customers or does not.
Nov 2022 - Aug 2023
Google
Product Marketing Manager, Fitbit
  • Led cross-functional GTM planning across Product, Engineering, Business Operations, and Marketing for feature enhancements, subscription DTC positioning (Fitbit Premium), and launch readiness.
  • Launched growth-oriented SaaS campaigns that lifted acquisition 14% and engagement 33% across the Fitbit consumer platform.
  • Ran A/B testing, customer research, and market analysis to uncover product opportunities and messaging insights, improving marketing ROI 15% through SQL and Power BI-driven optimization.
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Meta
Product Marketing Manager
  • Owned GTM for the Business Partners program, growing partner engagement 44% and API revenue steadily YoY.
  • Set the B2B and B2C learning agendas, measurement plans, and performance OKRs the team ran against.
  • Led market opportunity sizing, partner revenue-capability assessments, and the competitive analysis behind pricing strategy.
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Accenture at Google & eBay
Product Marketing Strategist, Inbound & Go-to-Market
  • Led eBay's Feedback and Reviews relaunch; reviews grew 3X in four weeks.
  • Launched Google Pay card integrations with HSBC and Citibank.
  • Ran an Android privacy and safety assessment across six countries and turned it into a tailored market entry strategy.
  • Managed third-party vendors from briefing through deliverable sign-off, and organized program guidelines and pricing in Highspot.
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
Cisco
Marketing Program Manager, USA, CA & EMEAR
  • Ran large-scale enterprise campaigns for subscription services across global segments.
  • Established the marketing insights framework and managed the data vendors behind it.
  • Gathered the insight that reshaped sales enablement materials and pricing strategy.
Early Career
Samsung Electronics · Orange Telecom · Ipsos
Product Marketing Manager · Product Marketing Analyst · Marketing Research
  • Product launches, channel marketing, and pricing strategy across EMEA and international markets.
  • Brand, loyalty, and shopper research spanning consumer electronics, telecom, and market research.
Expertise

Fluency, by domain.

Positioning & Messaging

Value Prop ArchitectureNarrativeDifferentiation

Go-to-Market

GTM StrategySegmentationPricing & PackagingLaunch Planning

Ads & Monetization

Ads MonetizationEmbedded PaymentsDeveloper GTMAPIs & SDKs

Lifecycle & Growth

Lifecycle MarketingRetention & ExpansionExperimentation

Competitive Intel & Enablement

Win/LossBattlecardsSales Enablement

Analytics & Frameworks

SQLTableauPower BILOVEDJTBD
Connect

Let's find the revenue problem.

I am useful in one specific situation: a platform that is genuinely hard to explain, attached to a number somebody has to hit. If the product already sells itself, you do not need me. Founding, principal, and director-level product marketing roles at high-growth and AI-native companies.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area