Michelle Parsons

Michelle Parsons

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Chief Product Officer @ Lex | Former Chief Product Officer at Hinge & EIR at Product School, ex-Netflix, Spotify, KAYAK | Angel Investor | Product Advisor
New York, United States

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  • Known
    Advisor
    Known
    Nov 2025 - Current (1 year)
  • L
    Chief Executive Officer & Founder
    LORA
    Oct 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)
    I’m building something new focused on helping people reconnect to themselves and each other. We sit at the intersection of spirituality, self-discovery, and human connection. Our mission is simple: to bring emotional intelligence, reflection, and curiosity into the fabric of daily life through intuitive, design-led experiences. We’re backed by AlleyCorp and building our founding team. Learn more or join us: www.getlora.com, or email me at michelle@getlora.com
  • Pepper
    Advisor
    Pepper
    Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 10 months)
    Product Advisor to founding team helping with all things growth, retention and monetization. The social app empowering home cooks. Because every chef deserves an audience 🌶 1M+ downloads iOS App of the Day (2/19/22) High of Top 25 in iOS Food & Drink As seen on Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars https://www.peppertheapp.com/
  • Beyond
    Advisor
    Beyond
    Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 10 months)
    Advisor to the founding team focused on areas across Growth, Product and Monetization strategies. Beyond is a new dating and community app for modern relationships, defined as honest, intentional, and inclusive of all relationship styles. https://www.datebeyond.co/
  • LEX
    Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder (Acquired)
    LEX
    Aug 2023 - Oct 2025 (2 years 3 months)
    - Fast Company Most Innovative Companies 2024 (social media) https://www.fastcompany.com/91038197/social-media-most-innovative-companies-2024 - Apple App of the Day 2024 & 2025 - 1.5M+ Downloads Joined Co-Founders Jen and Kel as Founding Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder. Lead the Product, Design and Engineering teams working to build the best LGBTQ+ community app for people of all Queer shapes and sizes to find friends, their next roommate, pickup soccer league, kombucha scoby, or maybe even love of their life. At Lex we believe that every space can be a queer space and we want to help
  • Product School
    Executive in Residence
    Product School
    Mar 2023 - Jul 2023 (5 months)
    As Product School’s first-ever Executive in Residence, I was brought on to reimagine and rebuild their flagship Product Leadership Certification (PLC) program from the ground up. I drew on 15+ years of product leadership experience across top consumer tech companies — including Hinge, Netflix, Spotify, and Kayak — to design a best-in-class curriculum tailored to the real challenges faced by today’s product leaders. Product School is a global product management education company that provides training, mentorship, and career development services to aspiring and experienced product managers. Their instructors come from leading companies such as Google, Meta, and Amazon, and the programs focus on delivering practical, hands-on learning in area
  • LEX
    Product Advisor
    LEX
    Jan 2023 - Aug 2023 (8 months)
    Worked with the co-founders to help create strategy, goals, metrics and execution plans as a part-time advisor (few hours/wk) + some fun product & strategy workshops. https://www.lex.lgbt/
  • Sky's the Limit
    Member Board of Directors
    Sky's the Limit
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2026 (3 years 6 months)
    Sky's The Limit is a non-profit that connects underrepresented entrepreneurs with corporate mentors, funding, and learning opportunities on their road to launching and growing a business. https://www.skysthelimit.org/about
  • First Round Capital
    Mentor
    First Round Capital
    Aug 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 6 months)
    Product Mentor for First Round Capital's Mentorship Program Fast Track (S12, S14 and S15) Fast Track is built on the belief that when you tap into the wisdom and generosity of a community, incredible things happen. Learn more here: https://fasttrack.firstround.com/about-the-program#faq
  • Hinge
    Chief Product Officer
    Hinge
    May 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 8 months)
    I led the product, design, and research organizations at Hinge across Growth, Monetization, Core Experience, Algorithms, Trust & Safety, and Lifecycle. During my tenure, the company grew from ~70 to over 350 employees and tripled both daily active users and revenue in under two years. I oversaw full end-to-end localization of the app into 30+ global markets and redefined our monetization strategy — launching a second subscription tier, implementing dynamic pricing, and introducing weekly packages. I also spearheaded the platform’s generational shift, successfully growing Gen Z adoption and expanding the audience mix by 160%. Under my leadership, Hinge became the fastest-growing dating app globally and the second most downloaded app in Europ
  • Pillar VC
    Scout
    Pillar VC
    Jan 2021 - Jan 2025 (4 years 1 month)
    Individual Scout with Pillar VC Current investments include: Wagr (acquired by Yahoo Sports), Entree, Ari Reach out if you have interesting businesses that you are working on, I'd love to chat! https://www.pillar.vc/
  • Hinge
    Product
    Hinge
    Dec 2020 - May 2021 (6 months)
  • Netflix
    Product Innovation Lead, Global Kids & Family
    Netflix
    Jun 2019 - May 2021 (2 years)
    • Developed, owned and executed overall product strategy, roadmap and business for Kids & Family across TV, mobile and Web globally; Partnered directly with content, marketing, ratings, public policy and creative production/studio organizations to create a unified strategy across the Netflix Kids & Family global business.
    • Leveraged consumer insights and data analysis to identify big opportunities for the Netflix Kids & Family business, prioritized features and enabled teams to execute on the vision.
    • Led a complete overhaul to our parental controls features and worked directly with policy and insights to present our research and tools at roundtables with government and advocacy organizations across the globe, including FOSI, EU
  • Spotify
    Product Lead, Personalization and Recommendations Platform
    Spotify
    Jan 2018 - Apr 2019 (1 year 4 months)
    • Led strategy and roadmap for three machine learning/data engineering squads focused on building out our personalization and recommendations platform. Scaled the system to accelerate innovation across the company, including marketing, curation, and cross-company product organizations.
    • Partnered with teams across Spotify to leverage our recommendation models to create personalized listening experiences, such as Daily Mix, Family Mix, Your Year in Review, and Discover Weekly.
    • Projects Included: Duo & Family Plan, Cold Start for New Users, Shared Listening Algo (now powers Blend), Group / Layered Recommendations, Discovery Recommendations
  • KAYAK
    Head of Product, Hotels
    KAYAK
    Oct 2015 - Jan 2018 (2 years 4 months)
    • Hired as Kayak’s 4th PM. Defined product strategy and oversaw roadmap for the Hotel product experience across search, results page, map, and check out for both mobile and web platforms; Collaborated with global cross-functional stakeholders to inform product direction and strategy for the Hotel metadata, algorithm, ads, and SEO teams.
    • Partnered with design, product and marketing to drive a full-scale, cross-platform product redesign and rebranding; Successfully launched desktop redesign within a 2-month deadline and released all mobile platforms within 3 months.
    • Spearheaded the launch of two new verticals – Cruises and Vacation Rentals – including product research, strategy, market positioning and globalization.
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  • Cengage
    Senior Product Manager, MindTap Platform
    Cengage
    Mar 2014 - Sep 2015 (1 year 7 months)
    • Led full-cycle agile product development from ideation to implementation for the MindTap Platform (mobile and web); served as Product Leader for 3 scrum teams managing platform enhancements, maintenance and new product development
    • Defined and managed product requirements and translated into product roadmap, story maps and software development goals utilizing market and sales feedback, user testing/research and competitive analysis. Developed functional specifications using UX mockups, workflows and technical descriptions to clearly detail new feature requirements to analyst and development team
    • Managed development projects and release timelines and communicated to sales and marketing to ensure all new feature development was
  • Pearson
    Product Manager, K-12 Technology
    Pearson
    Jun 2013 - Mar 2014 (10 months)
    • Led full-cycle agile product development, with a focus on user facing in-app features and reporting, and oversaw a team of eight engineers (both on and off-site team members) to build an eLearning application (Common Core System of Courses) for tablets on iOS
    • Successfully helped facilitate the development and launch of the eLearning application into the Apple Store marketplace and managed on-site deployment to over 50,000 end users in the LA Unified School District (overall client scope to exceed 500,000 end users)
    • Led and collaborated with cross-organizational teams of software developers, project managers, UX designers and content producers to establish product and project requirements, deployment schedules, resource staff
  • Pearson
    Product Analyst, Customer Experience
    Pearson
    Mar 2013 - Dec 2013 (10 months)
    • Gathered business and system requirements, created detailed workflows for 4 unique web applications with over 26 million users combined and created technical documentation to inform enhancements with prioritization for key stakeholders resulting in a 5 million dollar savings in customer technical support
    • Conducted a full-scale business analysis of customer experience across the search, discovery, purchase and registration flow for Pearson's Higher Education portfolio of digital products across 4 different platforms and created documentation to inform enhancements and prioritization
    • Collaborated with UX designers and a business architect to develop use cases, personas and the voice of the customer; Analyzed and improved produ
  • Pearson
    Business Analyst
    Pearson
    May 2012 - Mar 2013 (11 months)
    Alleyoop was a Pearson Incubated Start-up
    • Spearheaded research projects focused on customer discovery, competitive landscape and user experience, conducted primary field interviews with target audience, evaluated qualitative and quantitative data, and communicated analysis to team in order to help inform product development and design
    • Created a system of partner evaluation, including a scorecard and metrics, and used data to evaluate, inform and execute strategic partnerships and content acquisition
    • Collaborated with cross-functional teams in product, marketing, curriculum and data to design and build an online learning platform using the agile development process
    • Leveraged content expertise to review and edit Al
  • Teach For America
    Corps Member
    Teach For America
    Jun 2010 - May 2012 (2 years)
    As 9-10 Science Teacher Specifically:
    • Identified key barriers to academic growth through data tracking and analysis to create catered lessons resulting in 76% of students achieving scores that met or exceeded 80% with a 92% overall passing rate as measured by comprehensive district-wide exams
    • Promoted to Department Head after 1 yr of instruction; led 5 science teachers across grade levels to improve both teacher and student performance resulting in number one department performance across the district
    • Planned and co-led a cross-functional group of faculty, advisors and administrators to analyze student state test data in order to inform strategies for growth, achievement and implementation resulting in the first Adequat
  • DePauw University
    Public Health Project Lead, CoCoDa Foundation
    DePauw University
    Aug 2009 - May 2010 (10 months)
    • Developed, managed and effectively implemented a system for one-day, on-site medical brigades that provided examinations, diagnosis and medication to approximately 740 community members utilizing limited space and resources in El Salvador; through campaigns obtained $10,000 and over 1,000 pounds of medical donations
    • Designed and executed a training program focused on basic triage procedures and global medicine for 31 team members resulting in a 100% post-trip overall satisfaction rating
    • Created bilingual health education seminars related to dental, sexual, prenatal and nutritional health
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  • DePauw University
    bachelor, Bachelor's degree, Biology, Chemistry
    DePauw University
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