Zalman Friedman — Product Manager

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10x users → 5x valuation → exit. Grew Rallybound's user base 10x as its product leader; acquired by Neon One.
$200M / year · 5M+ users. Scale of the fundraising platform I owned end to end.
50+ integrations on one API. Architected the Sprocket REST API powering Salesforce and dozens of payment processors.
Largest enterprise deal in company history. Unlocked by the Salesforce NPC bidirectional sync I owned (client with ~$50M annual fundraising volume).
Agentic AI: 45 min → 5 min. Drove an agentic legal-tech platform, a custom MCP server, and an AI eval framework.
Identity for 5M+ users. SSO, RBAC, MFA, and audit on a proprietary identity and access platform.
72-hour COVID pivot. Customers recouped ~75% of projected lost event revenue.
A/B test that changed the business model. Proved donor "tipping" out-earned "cover the fees"; rolled out platform-wide.

Two tracks ran in parallel for years: product, and teaching / curriculum design.

2026 (Apr–Jul)Propela — Product Strategist (contract)Product
Agentic AI legal tech: MCP server, eval framework, delivery cleanup.
2018–2026Neon One — Director, ProductProduct
Nonprofit fundraising platform: CRM sync, payments, identity, messaging, compliance. $200M/yr, 5M+ users.
2025–2026The Adelson School — Jewish History Teacher (part-time)Teaching
Researched and built a 10th-grade curriculum end to end (~1800 BCE–1000 CE).
2015–2018Rallybound — Senior Product ManagerProduct
Full product ownership: 10x growth, 5x valuation, acquisition by Neon One.
2014–2015Rallybound — Technical BA & Lead Designer (employee #3)Product
Single source of truth for 12+ engineers; 150+ initiatives specced; 650-article knowledge base.
2012–2019Cheder Menachem — Talmud & Judaics TeacherTeaching
Created a Talmud curriculum and methodology from scratch — later adopted by classes across the US.
2012–2014Cleverbees — Lead UX/UI DesignerProduct
K–12 edtech platform; end-to-end design; launched a school↔home Communication Hub.
~2004–2012Self-employed — Graphic DesignerProduct
Hundreds of clients. Origin of the design craft and the self-sufficiency.

The Salesforce NPC IntegrationBidirectional CRM sync against an immature schema — unlocked the largest enterprise deal in company history.
Agentic AI, MCP, and Evals in Legal TechAn expert workflow compressed from 45 minutes to 5, with trust boundaries and an eval framework.
The Year-Long Bet, Re-Earned MonthlyA 3-month estimate ran 4x over. Governance — not momentum — kept it alive, and it paid off.
The Site BuilderA template GUI builder that hit 100% adoption and offloaded custom work from engineering.
The 72-Hour COVID PivotDecisiveness with zero data, then a year of sustained execution. ~75% of lost revenue recouped.
The Donor Tipping A/B TestMonetization decided by experiment, not intuition — the winner shipped platform-wide.