Nava Friedman | Building High-Impact Products

👩🏼‍💻 Product Management

Skilled in critical product management disciplines and higher level strategy, balancing customer impact and business value (8 years direct product experience, both IC and management)

🔆 No-code Applications

Senior-level Airtable, Zapier, Squarespace (+ more) user. Have built end to end websites + apps for internal and external usage with these tools.

💓 Nonprofit

Co-Founder / COO of Karen’s Club, a health equity nonprofit; Previous experience in international development (research, grant reporting, communications) in Washington D.C. and East Africa

🏫 Education

Bachelor's Degree (magna cum laude) from Princeton University in Religion & African Studies; additional classes and certificates in data analysis + product

Nava balances a deeply pragmatic mind with a relentless creativity. She thinks through every angle - from risks to dependencies to unknowns - all while staying disciplined in the short-cycle, iterative process of a master product leader. She has this ability to cut through the noise to find that essential signal that becomes a true north for even the most complex initiatives. As a leader, Nava’s integrity is impervious and her commitment to equity and the myriad ways that social impact can render through tech is inspiring. Nava is an MVP on an off day... If you give her a challenge she can sink her teeth into and the space to do so, she will deliver with focus, elegance and impact.

Ed U., Product Leader @ Justworks

I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Nava during my transition into a new organization, and she was so thoughtful, caring, and supportive to me and the organization more holistically. We are a nonprofit rebuilding many of our systems and processes toward scale, and she expertly helped us think through and design future-focused systems, automations, and processes to reduce manual labor and create new efficiencies. She is the perfect combination of strategy and action, and she has been an amazing thought partner. We are better as a result of partnering with her, and I would recommend her fully and without reservation.

Natalie S., Operations @ nXu

🚴🏻‍♀️ Biking

• Brighton Beach
• Williamsburg
• Prospect Park

🎧 Listening

• Maintenance Phase
• If Books Could Kill
• Lenny’s Podcast
• The Grey Area

📚 Reading

• Homegoing
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers
• The Empathy Exams

🤝 Volunteering

• Catchafire
• Changing the Conversation Together
• Princeton in Africa