IdentityStrategy × Data × Platform

Staff product leader shaping strategy and scaling data and platform products.

I turn ambiguous, cross-functional problems into product strategy, durable platforms, and measurable business outcomes. My work spans 5G at Verizon, global payments at Samsung, and machine learning and analytics at Cargill.

I lead through influence: setting direction, aligning technical and business leaders, making tradeoffs explicit, and building operating clarity across teams. AI is one important part of that toolkit, grounded in the same discipline around data, reliability, economics, and trust.

Senior Product Management·Product Strategy·Platform Products·Data Products·Cross-functional Leadership
Portrait of Seher Chaudhary, Senior Product Leader
Seher C. - Senior Product Leader, Strategy × Data × Platform
Evidence tabsCareer arc
015G platform · millions of users
02Global payments infrastructure
03Data and ML decision systems
04Strategy across complex organizations
6+
Years
5G
Platform
Millions
Users served
54%
Fewer tickets
30%
Faster delivery
$20M
Proj. LTV
What I bring
Product strategy

Turn broad company goals and ambiguous customer problems into a clear product thesis, sequenced bets, and measurable outcomes.

Influence without authority

Create alignment across engineering, design, architecture, operations, and business leaders without relying on reporting lines.

Platform leverage

Prioritize shared capabilities that improve reliability, unlock multiple teams, and compound value across the organization.

Data-driven execution

Use customer behavior, experimentation, and operational signals to resolve debate, manage risk, and move the roadmap.

Staff-level operating model

Frame the decision. Align the system. Commit with clarity. Learn in public.

A concrete leadership system for turning cross-functional ambiguity into an outcome roadmap and a faster learning loop.

See how I operate →
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Frame
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Align
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Commit
04
Learn
How I think
01
Optimize systems, not symptoms.

Most escalations are the visible end of a mechanism nobody owns. I trace the mechanism first, then decide what to build.

02
Use data to turn disagreement into decisions.

When every team's request is urgent, behavior and failure data are the only neutral arbiter I've found that actually moves a roadmap.

03
Reliability is a product feature.

Users forgive a missing capability far more readily than an unpredictable one. Predictability is what earns adoption.

04
Leadership means making tradeoffs legible.

Teams move faster when the decision, evidence, constraints, and accepted costs are visible to everyone.

05
The best roadmap creates leverage across teams.

One platform investment that unblocks four squads beats four features that each serve one.

AI strategy & principles

When to use an LLM, and when deterministic code is the better product.

The framework I run before engineering starts: what good means, what wrong costs, what the latency and token budgets are, and what happens when confidence drops.

Read the framework
Accuracy vs latency

Set a p95 budget per step, cut anything that cannot justify its share of the tail.

Cost per successful task

Retries and failed runs count. Route easy cases to smaller models.

Context window discipline

Rank before packing. More context is not more accuracy.

Human in the loop

Autonomous, assisted, or escalated, decided by confidence band.

AI Lab · Artifact

Agent Evaluation Dashboard

A working 0 to 1 evaluation workbench for multi-step agent reliability. Edit candidate outputs, run deterministic checks, inspect expected responses, and download the synthetic dataset.

Open the lab
Metric
Baseline
Iteration 2
Target
Task success
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90%
Factual accuracy
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92%
Structured output compliance
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95%
Failure rate
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<5%
Median latency
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<5s
Product leadership fluency
Product strategy

Product vision · Portfolio choices · Roadmap sequencing · Build vs. buy · Outcome definition

Platform products

APIs · Shared capabilities · Reliability · Scalability · Developer and operator workflows

Data products

Behavioral analytics · Experimentation · Forecasting · Operational signals · Decision systems

Applied AI

LLMs · Agentic workflows · Evaluation · Cost and latency · Risk · Human oversight

What leaders I've worked with say

“Seher stands out as a product leader with a rare combination of strategic vision, meticulous attention to detail, and a deep empathy for user needs.”

Vaishal · Former manager, Samsung

“She always kept a can-do attitude and, in some cases, taught herself the necessary skills to do what was needed.”

Nels · Former manager, Cargill