Silas Dawson

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Principal Product Manager at Ledger Pay · B2B SaaS platforms · roadmapping, enterprise

Ledger Pay
San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
Advising
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Overview

Currently at Ledger Pay, where I work on B2B SaaS platforms. Took platform activation from 19% to 47% in three quarters. Ran 81 customer interviews before writing the first spec. Before that: Oracle and Apple.

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Skills
enterpriseproduct strategyAPIsroadmapping
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Office hours for new product managers: B2B SaaS platforms and product strategy

Topics
B2B SaaS, APIs, product strategy
Format
Office hours
Terms
Paid
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
First-time founders

13 years of B2B SaaS platforms. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

San Jose, CAapisproduct strategyenterprise
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Experience

  1. Principal Product Manager
    May 2026 - Present
    Ledger Pay · 5 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
    • Backed 50 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 40 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Product Manager
    Aug 2023 - May 2026
    Oracle · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Ran 129 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Jul 2021 - Aug 2023
    Apple · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new platform customers from 15 days to 2.
    • Ran 43 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  4. Product Manager
    Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
    Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
    • Took platform activation from 22% to 46% in three quarters.
  5. Senior Product Manager
    May 2018 - Sep 2019
    EY · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Launched the platform product in 3 markets.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Business Administration
    2017 - 2019
  2. Northwestern University
    BA, Business Administration
    2009 - 2013

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