Hannah Schlacter
847-404-8501 | hbschlac@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/hannahschlacter | schlacter.me
Platform PM on Walmart's ML-driven marketplace; builds developer listening tools for AI platforms
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business | Berkeley, CA May 2024
Master of Business Administration | Merit Scholarship, Beyond Yourself Fellowship
Coursework: growth marketing, pricing strategy, product development, startup sales, data analytics, SQL
•Co-founded advocacy platform scaled to 20+ universities; raised $30K from philanthropists and VCs for national summit connecting students with tech leaders
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Gies College of Business | Champaign, IL May 2017
Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship and Marketing | Graduated High Honors, Gies Scholars, Merit Scholarship
EXPERIENCE
Walmart eComm — BuyBox | Senior Product Manager – Data Products & ML Systems | Bay Area 2024 – Present
Horizontal ML ranking platform powering seller offer selection across ~30% of Walmart.com's catalog
•Own the ranking system deciding seller offer selection across ~400M daily product impressions and a ~$400M GMV mandate; shipped experiments driving ~$107M in bankable GMV and +0.66% add-to-cart lift
•Launched the Secondary Buy Box — a new product surface on the platform exposing competitive offers when the top seller doesn't dominate on price and speed; reached ~45M daily impressions with +0.46% multi-offer ATC lift
•Mapped dependencies across 10+ upstream systems feeding the ranking platform, cutting engineering investigation time ~80% on production incidents
•Built "BuyBox Engineer," a GenAI developer tool letting 200+ product and engineering teammates query ranking behavior and debug dependencies in natural language — no ML expertise required
•Prioritized 30+ ranking initiatives per quarter via a framework tying each change to a measurable customer conversion metric
Siemens eMobility | Global Strategy MBA Intern | Remote 2023
Internal startup EV charging business unit serving residential and commercial markets
•Defined EV charging software roadmap through 15+ customer interviews, translating complex utility pricing into simple customer-facing packaging; strategy projected to increase customer lifetime value 6x
•Created go-to-market strategy for new EV software identifying highest-value customer segments; informed C-suite plan to scale adoption 5x
Uprising Venture Capital | Director of Platform (2021-2022), Chief of Staff (2019-2021) | San Francisco, CA 2019 – 2022
Technology-focused VC managing $750M+ across 30 startups
•Scaled KPI reporting platform serving 30 startup clients, achieving 90% customer adoption and cutting their data reporting time 50% year-over-year
•Delivered client-facing investor reporting and portfolio tools that enabled $100M+ in LP investment conversions within two months
•Orchestrated prioritization and resource allocation across seven fundraises contributing to $400M+ in capital raised
Accenture | San Francisco, CA 2017 – 2019
Senior Consulting Analyst (2018-2019); Consulting Analyst (2017-2018)
Strategy and management consulting for major technology clients in Silicon Valley
•Designed analytics dashboard giving 50+ client stakeholders real-time visibility into campaign performance, cutting production from six weeks to two days
•Drove client resource allocation model that doubled team productivity and accelerated project delivery
ADDITIONAL
Project: Cohere Developer Experience Audit (schlacter.me/cohere-developer-experience) — live three-way comparison of Cohere, OpenAI, and Anthropic across SDK onboarding, docs, playground, model selection, enterprise deployment, and pricing; opportunity themes mined from public developer feedback on Reddit, HN, GitHub Issues, and Stack Overflow
Community Impact: National student advocacy leader; featured on CNN, Fox, and Forbes; advised CA Gov’t and US Dept. of Education; served on international diplomacy missions to Czech Republic, UAE, Colombia, and Ukraine
Skills: AI product prototyping (Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK) | API & SDK design | Developer tooling & observability | ML platform systems | Experimentation & A/B testing | Product analytics (SQL, Python) | Technical PM (reads code, ships prototypes)
Interests: Kindle reading; vibe-coding; alpine skiing; hosting communal dinners; international travel