Mike Kalmakis

Senior Vice President of Product Management

I joined at seed stage as the sole product hire and owned the company-wide roadmap as we scaled ARR 30x in a single year

Evertune measures and influences how AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity perceive and recommend brands. By prompting the models thousands of times and applying custom-built NLP techniques, the platform tracks what AI knows about a brand and what it tells people over time.

Executive Product Consultant

Kalmakis Product Advisory helps AI-native SaaS companies define product strategy, institute product management practices, ship more impactful software and scale with clarity.

Senior Vice President of Product Management

Promoted Director to VP (2020) to SVP (2023)

I was an Executive team member leading the 10+ person Product, UX/UI and Analytics organization. My work drove $30M+ in EBITDA growth and 7x customer increase by streamlining product operations, modernizing UX, simplifying implementations and expanding into the Shopify SMB market.

If you have bought clothes online in North America or Western Europe, you have probably used True Fit to help determine your best size and fit. Behind it sits 435 million registered shoppers and a map of fifteen million styles across seventeen thousand brands. I joined the Series C company after it had raised $112M and helped rebuild its core user experiences, improve its recommendation accuracy, rebuild its analytics suite and data products and streamline product operations.

Senior Director of Product Management

Promoted from Director (2018)

I was a product leader managing the multi-product roadmap spanning infrastructure, analytics and UX. We built the social listening tool trusted by Twitter to analyze its own full firehose of data and a 10+ year archive of tweets.

Brandwatch is a $100M+ ARR social intelligence platform ingesting and extracting signal from a billion social posts and news articles a day. The company was sold to Cision for $450M in 2021.

I joined via the merger with Crimson Hexagon, a social listening analytics company built on research from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, to help build its analytics engine, custom-built ML models and data collection capabilities.

Senior Product Manager, ML Personalization & Playlisting

Re-invented Spotify Radio (artist, song, genre and album) on enhanced Spark data pipelines and new machine learning algorithms, and drove the creation of Daily Mix, one of Spotify's first hyper-personalized experiences

Spotify is the world leader in music streaming. I joined via the acquisition of The Echo Nest, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, where we built a music intelligence platform that scored a catalogue of twenty million tracks with audio-signal machine learning attributes and web-mined NLP signals.

Product Manager, API Platform

I led the mission-critical API platform connecting online travel agent reservations to real front desks: when it broke, someone walked into a hotel lobby believing they had a room, but the hotel never received the reservation

TravelClick runs the online travel agent bi-directional distribution layer for more than 50,000 hotels. The firm sold to Amadeus for $1.52B in 2018.