Brunade Goes
Senior Product Manager
I’m a product manager and tech enthusiast who has spent close to two decades turning messy, high-stakes problems into products people rely on, at Meta, Google and a handful of startups.
I’m known as the cross-functional leader who gets teams pulling in the same direction: I influence strategy across organizations with data, then stay close enough to the work to make sure it actually ships. Away from the roadmap, I’m raising two rescue dogs and probably shaking through a Lagree class.
“I’ve been in product management so long, I used to write PRDs in skinny jeans.”
Building cool stuff for +20 years
From fraud detection at Google to VR stability at Meta, the thread is the same: find what users need most, then rally the people who can deliver it.
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2023 – now
Meta
Senior Product Manager, remote from Fort Collins
- Improved the photo and video sending flow on Messenger for millions of users worldwide, lifting media sends to levels the company hadn’t reached before.
- Led a cross-organizational initiative spanning thousands of engineers that reduced Oculus device crash rates by +2%.
- Set product direction for VR platform data delivery: telemetry, diagnostics, crash reporting and bug reporting, feeding internal and investor reporting.
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2020 – 2023
Independent practice
Product Management Consultant, Fort Collins
- Started a consulting practice guiding +20 startups and local universities on product and business management, brand marketing and product design. Led hackathons at local universities.
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2015 – 2020
Meta (Facebook)
Product Manager, Menlo Park
- Launched Event Insights for Creators, raising event ad creation by 10% and giving creators one dashboard for attendee data.
- Delivered Multi-Occurrence Events end to end, a long-standing user ask, exceeding inventory goals for creators serving 12M+ daily active users.
- Moved senior leaders to redesign a strategic metric around creator engagement instead of raw inventory.
- Built an experimental machine learning product that spotted users who needed support and helped them proactively.
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2013 – 2014
TuneIn
Senior Product Manager, Palo Alto
- Owned vision and roadmap for TuneIn, TuneIn Pro and OpenMic on iOS, plus the Content Discovery Feed, leading major redesigns and fast iteration.
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2011 – 2013
StumbleUpon
Ads and Content Quality Team Manager, San Francisco
- Led and grew a team protecting platform integrity, writing data-driven policies to remove prohibited content quickly.
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2006 – 2011
Google
Project Manager, Mountain View
- Led global automated fraud and compromised-account detection using machine learning, and won leadership investment in anti-fraud and spam technology.
Education
University of Michigan
B.A., dual major in Communications and Sociology
- Taught an undergraduate class on sociology and media representation.
- Led 10+ students volunteering at homeless shelters in Ann Arbor and Detroit.
Get Together!
A side project I built entirely with AI: a mobile-first app that helps groups of 5 to 50 friends land on a date and time that works for everyone.
Hosts propose a few time slots and invite friends by text or email. Attendees tap the times they can make, and the host sees the best windows ranked by how many people can come, then sends a confirmation and collects RSVPs.
- AI pair programming
- Firebase Firestore
- GitHub Pages
- Started with a PRDI wrote it the way I would at work: target users, host and attendee flows, success metrics and MVP scope.
- Vibe coded the front endI handed the PRD to AI and iterated in plain language, screen by screen, testing on phones and different screen sizes.
- Built the backend on FirebaseFirestore stores events, time slots and responses, so hosts and attendees see the same live data.
- Shipped a working prototypeLive on GitHub Pages, with native text and email invites that keep the MVP lean.
Let’s Connect
Hiring for a senior product role or have a product that needs direction and consulting? I’d love to hear about it.