ABOUT SERIF LABS: Product advisory for startups

strategy ・ product ・ growth・

strategy ・ product ・ growth・

strategy ・ product ・ growth・

strategy ・ product ・ growth・

Serif Labs helps startups find the product that will unlock their first $1M ARR.

Mission statement

I help early-stage B2B SaaS

founders make better product

decisions - what to build, what

to skip, and how to find product-

market fit faster.

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The product advisor behind Serif Labs

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Amelia Elverson
Product advisor for early-stage B2B SaaS startups. Harvard MBA. Former PM at Google.
I've been a software engineer at Microsoft, a product manager at Google and at a Series A startup, and a UX designer for many early stage startups. I started Serif Labs because I kept ending up in the same seat - the person founders call when they need to figure out what to build and how to ship it. I work on retainer as an embedded product advisor. I'm the preson who pressure-tests your ideas, protect your engineering team's time, and helps you find product-market fit.
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Experience delivering results

Professional
Serif Labs
2023 - present

Founder & Lead Product Designer

Fractional product advisor for early-stage startups, with a focus on AI-native products. I embed with teams to lead product, strategy, roadmap, and design. Two clients taken from $0 to $1M+ ARR. Four teams supported through pre-seed and seed raises, and one team through acquisition.

Shortwave
2022 - 2023

Product Manager

Product leader at a Series A start-up building AI-native email. Owned go-to-market strategy and long-term roadmap for product-led growth. Led a cross-functional sprint team of designers, engineers, PMs, and product marketers

Google
2020 - 2022

Product Manager

PM for purchasing user journeys on YouTube and Google Play. Built zero-to-one features and optimized checkout flows for paid products. Shipped at Google scale - and then left because I wanted to build faster.

Microsoft
2016 - 2018

Technical Consultant & Engineer

Customer-facing engineer delivering custom ERP integrations for retail and public sector. Ran requirements gathering, customer interviews, system design, and development. Where I first learned that the best product work starts with listening.

Education
Harvard Business School
2018 - 2020

MBA

Electives emphasizing product management and strategy                             

Harvard University
2018 - 2020

MS, Engineering Sciences

Coursework focused on user experience, human-centered design, and data science & visualization

Cornell University
2012 - 2016

BS, Operations Research & Engineering

Honors diploma, cum laude, minor in Information Science