Top Talent like Gideon are on Pangea
Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.Gideon Emmanuel
Builder, Operator, 0–1 Product Leader | Agentic Engineering • Mobile • GTM
Builder, operator, and 0→1 product leader with ~7+ years of experience across product strategy, agile delivery, and leadership. Ran enterprise platform selections, shipped 0-to-1 products, built teams from scratch, and managed complex client relationships. Recently focused on agentic engineering, mobile app design, and consumer GTM—building and launching Justus, an AI-native fitness app—and also advising organizations on go-to-market and operations infrastructure.
Projects
Justus AI fitness coach
Most fitness apps can tell you how you are doing. Some can answer your questions. Few can tell you what to do, and almost none can continue to guide you when the plan comes in contact with LIFE. Justus starts where the others stop. Talk to it about what you want to achieve. It builds the plan and allows you to track against it. Then, when life happens (a brutal week, a sore knee, a rainy month) it tells you what to do next. I've been building Justus over the past six months as a solo-founder. It's an AI-native iOS and Android fitness coach with a Supabase backend and a React native front end. The work has included product strategy, UX, React Native architecture, multi-agent orchestration, model routing, tool use, health, weather, voice, and LLM integrations, analytics, evaluation, user testing, and go-to-market.See MoreWork History
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Independent Consultant & Product Builder
Independent (Self-Directed)Two tracks: advising professional services firms on operations infrastructure and go-to-market strategy, and shipping my own product using AI development tools. ● Building Justus, the first truly AI-native fitness app, with Claude & Codex as my technical co-founders ● Architecting an operational OS for a digital services firm on Airtable + Make + PandaDocs: designed data model, mapped business processes through user research, and built automated workflows for contract management and engagement tracking.C
Senior Director of Product, Permitting - City of Boston
City of BostonNov 2024 - Sep 2025 • 11 mosLed the Mayor’s flagship Permitting Transformation Initiative - a government-wide effort to focus Boston's permit and license systems around constituent outcomes and make applications simpler and faster. ● Developed the product vision and multi-year roadmap for a new citywide licensing and permitting platform, aligning policy, process, org strategy, and technology planning across 7 departments ● Ran discovery and current-state assessments across staff and constituents; mapped end-to-end journeys for dozens of use cases and surfaced the highest-impact opportunities ● Designed and led a rapid evaluation of COTS providers, Pega, ServiceNow, and Salesforce - defining requirements, scoring criteria, and tradeoffs to make a rigorous decision in two months. ● Built a first-of-its-kind in-house service transformation team: reorganized a team of 5 to embed modern product, design, and delivery practices and hired 3 new roles (Service Designer, Digital Transformation Coach, Technical Solutions Architect)M
Strategic Initiatives Manager, Mayor's Office
Mayor's Office - City of BostonJun 2023 - Nov 2024 • 1 yr 6 mosForce-multiplier to the Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff; drove cross-cabinet execution on mayoral priorities, including 0→1 product work and strategic planning for key departments. ● Led strategy, discovery, build and launch for futureBOS, a platform that increased accessibility and efficiency for the city's summer youth employment program serving 10,000+ youth ● Built and shipped Boston’s first citywide Youth Sports Directory and Recreation Facilities Map, coordinating 100+ organizations and 4 city departments into a single online experience ● Designed the operating rhythm for the Mayor’s Office (OKRs & decision memos), enabling clearer prioritization and faster decisions on cross-cabinet initiatives ● Led strategic planning efforts for cabinet and department heads (Office of Youth Employment, Worker Empowerment Cabinet), helping teams translate policy objectives into actionable roadmapsB
Product Manager
BonterraSep 2019 - Aug 2021 • 2 yrsProduct manager for EveryAction, the market-leading fundraising and engagement platform serving 10,000+ progressive nonprofits and political campaigns. ● Managed a $750K/year cross-functional agile team (3 engineers, QA, design), translating business objectives and user needs into a prioritized backlog across quarterly planning cycles ● Combined quantitative data (usage patterns, funnel analysis) with qualitative insights (50+ user interviews, market research) to identify high-impact opportunities and shape product strategy ● Led go-to-market execution for releases: developed positioning, trained sales and support teams, and created customer-facing education materials to drive adoption ● Shipped a Zoom integration during the first months of COVID, enabling seamless data management for virtual fundraising events leading up to the 2020 election ● Built a fundraiser dashboard and reporting tool providing real-time program performance insights, and an ML-driven optimization guide helping fundraisers improve donor retentionV
Senior Implementation Manager
Veracross (K-12 SIS)Jan 2017 - Aug 2019 • 2 yrs 8 mosConsultant for independent schools adopting the Veracross student information system. ● Led 7 complex, multi-stakeholder implementations (~$2.5M portfolio), pairing technical configuration with process redesign to ensure successful adoption and account renewals ● Designed and launched a grade & comment review product that modernized report-card workflows for 1000s of teachers and administrators ● Identified patterns across implementations and built an in-app project management tool that standardized delivery, reduced errors and overhead, and increased client accountabilityEducation
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Tufts University
MA, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning2021 - 2023Y
Yale University
BA, Anthropology2007 - 2011How Pangea Works
Effortlessly discover top talent
We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.Start working with talent today
The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.Track work and invoices in one place
Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
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Builder, Operator, 0–1 Product Leader | Agentic Engineering • Mobile • GTM
Builder, operator, and 0→1 product leader with ~7+ years of experience across product strategy, agile delivery, and leadership. Ran enterprise platform selections, shipped 0-to-1 products, built teams from scratch, and managed complex client relationships. Recently focused on agentic engineering, mobile app design, and consumer GTM—building and launching Justus, an AI-native fitness app—and also advising organizations on go-to-market and operations infrastructure.
Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.Available NowBook a Call
Top Talent like Gideon are on Pangea
Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.Gideon Emmanuel
Projects
Justus AI fitness coach
Most fitness apps can tell you how you are doing. Some can answer your questions. Few can tell you what to do, and almost none can continue to guide you when the plan comes in contact with LIFE. Justus starts where the others stop. Talk to it about what you want to achieve. It builds the plan and allows you to track against it. Then, when life happens (a brutal week, a sore knee, a rainy month) it tells you what to do next. I've been building Justus over the past six months as a solo-founder. It's an AI-native iOS and Android fitness coach with a Supabase backend and a React native front end. The work has included product strategy, UX, React Native architecture, multi-agent orchestration, model routing, tool use, health, weather, voice, and LLM integrations, analytics, evaluation, user testing, and go-to-market.Work History
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Independent Consultant & Product Builder
Independent (Self-Directed)Two tracks: advising professional services firms on operations infrastructure and go-to-market strategy, and shipping my own product using AI development tools. ● Building Justus, the first truly AI-native fitness app, with Claude & Codex as my technical co-founders ● Architecting an operational OS for a digital services firm on Airtable + Make + PandaDocs: designed data model, mapped business processes through user research, and built automated workflows for contract management and engagement tracking.C
Senior Director of Product, Permitting - City of Boston
City of BostonNov 2024 - Sep 2025 • 11 mosLed the Mayor’s flagship Permitting Transformation Initiative - a government-wide effort to focus Boston's permit and license systems around constituent outcomes and make applications simpler and faster. ● Developed the product vision and multi-year roadmap for a new citywide licensing and permitting platform, aligning policy, process, org strategy, and technology planning across 7 departments ● Ran discovery and current-state assessments across staff and constituents; mapped end-to-end journeys for dozens of use cases and surfaced the highest-impact opportunities ● Designed and led a rapid evaluation of COTS providers, Pega, ServiceNow, and Salesforce - defining requirements, scoring criteria, and tradeoffs to make a rigorous decision in two months. ● Built a first-of-its-kind in-house service transformation team: reorganized a team of 5 to embed modern product, design, and delivery practices and hired 3 new roles (Service Designer, Digital Transformation Coach, Technical Solutions Architect)M
Strategic Initiatives Manager, Mayor's Office
Mayor's Office - City of BostonJun 2023 - Nov 2024 • 1 yr 6 mosForce-multiplier to the Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff; drove cross-cabinet execution on mayoral priorities, including 0→1 product work and strategic planning for key departments. ● Led strategy, discovery, build and launch for futureBOS, a platform that increased accessibility and efficiency for the city's summer youth employment program serving 10,000+ youth ● Built and shipped Boston’s first citywide Youth Sports Directory and Recreation Facilities Map, coordinating 100+ organizations and 4 city departments into a single online experience ● Designed the operating rhythm for the Mayor’s Office (OKRs & decision memos), enabling clearer prioritization and faster decisions on cross-cabinet initiatives ● Led strategic planning efforts for cabinet and department heads (Office of Youth Employment, Worker Empowerment Cabinet), helping teams translate policy objectives into actionable roadmapsB
Product Manager
BonterraSep 2019 - Aug 2021 • 2 yrsProduct manager for EveryAction, the market-leading fundraising and engagement platform serving 10,000+ progressive nonprofits and political campaigns. ● Managed a $750K/year cross-functional agile team (3 engineers, QA, design), translating business objectives and user needs into a prioritized backlog across quarterly planning cycles ● Combined quantitative data (usage patterns, funnel analysis) with qualitative insights (50+ user interviews, market research) to identify high-impact opportunities and shape product strategy ● Led go-to-market execution for releases: developed positioning, trained sales and support teams, and created customer-facing education materials to drive adoption ● Shipped a Zoom integration during the first months of COVID, enabling seamless data management for virtual fundraising events leading up to the 2020 election ● Built a fundraiser dashboard and reporting tool providing real-time program performance insights, and an ML-driven optimization guide helping fundraisers improve donor retentionV
Senior Implementation Manager
Veracross (K-12 SIS)Jan 2017 - Aug 2019 • 2 yrs 8 mosConsultant for independent schools adopting the Veracross student information system. ● Led 7 complex, multi-stakeholder implementations (~$2.5M portfolio), pairing technical configuration with process redesign to ensure successful adoption and account renewals ● Designed and launched a grade & comment review product that modernized report-card workflows for 1000s of teachers and administrators ● Identified patterns across implementations and built an in-app project management tool that standardized delivery, reduced errors and overhead, and increased client accountabilityEducation
T
Tufts University
MA, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning2021 - 2023Y
Yale University
BA, Anthropology2007 - 2011How Pangea Works
Effortlessly discover top talent
We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.Start working with talent today
The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.Track work and invoices in one place
Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.Available NowBook a Call
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