Stan Sadlik
Senior Product Manager

Stan Sadlik

I bridge business strategy and technical reality. With 10+ years leading cross-functional teams across web, mobile, and backend products — and a hands-on command of AI tooling and data — I ship products that actually move metrics.

10+ Years in Product
71% Titles Released in 48 hrs
30% Less Doc Overhead via AI
8 Certifications
About Me

The PM your engineers actually trust

Strategy and code. Data and storytelling. Boardroom and backlog.

I'm a Senior Product Manager with over 10 years of leading cross-functional teams across web, mobile, and backend products, specializing in bridging business strategy and technical realities to drive impactful product decisions.

I'm comfortable writing SQL queries to pull my own insights, sitting in design reviews with UX, and then turning around to present a roadmap to executive stakeholders.

Lately, I've been deeply focused on using AI tools — Claude, Cline, Copilot, Gemini, NotebookLM — not as a buzzword, but as a practical way to move faster. At Encora, AI agents cut documentation overhead by 30%. At Carvana, AI-assisted prototyping gave my team access to 70% more user insights for decision-making, demonstrating my ability to deliver impactful results.

I thrive in collaborative environments where product, engineering, and business actually work together — not just talk about working together. I'm energized by hard problems, messy data, and teams that care about shipping things that matter, which I believe builds strong, effective partnerships.

7.5 days → 2 days
Reduced title release time with 71% of titles now released within 48 hours of purchase
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38% fewer errors
Cut arbitration submission errors through a modernized online experience
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65% less rework
Reduced content review rework by implementing an AI-powered review platform
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Building something and need a PM who can go deep on data while keeping the big picture in view?
Case Studies

Work that tells a story

Deep dives into the problems, decisions, and trade-offs behind the results.

Eli Lilly · Encora
AI-Assisted MLR Content Review
📅 Dec 2025 – Apr 2026

How I embedded as the de facto product lead at one of the world's largest pharma companies to design and ship an AI-powered MLR review platform — navigating enterprise regulation, a distributed team across four countries, and the messy reality of probabilistic AI.

6 weeks
Alpha delivery
41
Business rules
65%
Rework reduction target
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Carvana · ADESA
From Spreadsheets to Unified Platform
📅 Oct 2024 – Dec 2025

How I led the discovery, design, and delivery of ARC — a centralized arbitration management platform — by going where the work actually happened, inheriting a fragile legacy system, and shipping to every auction in the network before I left.

<1 day
First touch time
99%
Sync issues resolved
100%
Auctions deployed
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Career

Work Experience

A decade-long track record delivering measurable results across enterprise, startup, and consulting environments.

Encora (Consulting)
Product Manager — Eli Lilly
📅 Dec 2025 – Apr 2026
  • Led product development for an AI-powered content review platform built on GPT-4.5, with RAG architecture on AWS — reducing content rework by 65%.
  • Defined and drove a structured evaluation framework using positive/negative test cases to measure agent accuracy and reduce hallucination rates.
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders, engineering, and UX to streamline review workflows, cutting cycle time by 45%.
  • Built Microsoft Copilot AI agents to manage PRDs, design docs, and backlogs — reducing documentation overhead by 30%.
  • Mentoring a PM in Agile, product strategy, success criteria, and roadmap development.
GPT-4.5 RAG Architecture AWS Microsoft Copilot AI Product
Carvana
Senior Product Manager
📅 Oct 2024 – Dec 2025
  • Designed and launched a modern online arbitration experience — reducing submission errors by 38% and cycle time by 22%.
  • Partnered with Title Ops to automate title receiving and shipping, driving 71% of titles released within 2 days of purchase (down from 7.5 days average).
  • Owned vision and roadmap across 5 web and mobile product lines, resulting in a 25% increase in customer satisfaction scores.
  • Leveraged AI-assisted prototyping (Cline, Gemini, ChatGPT) to generate insights from 70% more user data than prior methods.
Web & Mobile Cline / Gemini Process Automation Roadmapping
DMI (Consulting)
Senior Product Manager — Eli Lilly
📅 Apr 2024 – Sep 2024
  • Managed the Savings Card program across Oncology, Immunology, Diabetes, and Weight Loss — one of Lilly's highest-revenue portfolios.
  • Designed integration with Medallia to capture user sentiment and optimize the enrollment funnel, targeting a 13% lift in enrollments.
  • Defined strategy for a cross-brand enrollment program enabling patients on multiple Lilly medications to qualify for additional discounts (projected 35% enrollment increase).
Healthcare / Pharma Medallia Enrollment Optimization
DMI (Consulting)
Senior Product Owner / Manager — ADESA
📅 Mar 2018 – Dec 2023
  • Led a 5-person product team delivering initiatives across web, mobile, GPS devices, and backend services.
  • Modernized a critical vehicle tracking app from Xamarin to React Native, now used daily by 1,000+ users across North America on Android and iOS.
  • Implemented feature flags via LaunchDarkly to enable phased rollouts, A/B testing, and improved adoption measurement.
  • Managed backend VIN decode and GPS location services critical to vehicle check-in and movement tracking across auction facilities.
  • Built audience-tailored roadmaps in quarterly, annual, and Now/Next/Later formats for stakeholders through executive leadership.
React Native LaunchDarkly Mobile (iOS & Android) GPS / Backend Services
DMI (Consulting)
Product Owner / Coach — Cummins
📅 Aug 2016 – Mar 2017
  • Mentored a client-assigned Product Owner in Agile and Scrum methodologies, accelerating their path to independent team leadership.
  • Documented Epics, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria to align development priorities with business objectives.
Agile Coaching Scrum
International Medical Group (IMG)
Senior Software Engineer
📅 Dec 2006 – Jul 2016
  • Spent nearly a decade building software at an insurance and assistance company — developing the technical instincts that now define how I work alongside engineering teams as a PM.
  • Gained firsthand experience with the full software development lifecycle, giving me the ability to evaluate technical feasibility, understand architectural trade-offs, and communicate fluently with engineers without a translator.
  • This foundation is the real reason I can write my own SQL, review a system design, and ship products that engineering teams actually want to build.
Software Engineering Full SDLC Technical Foundation
Capabilities

Skills & Tools

From discovery to delivery — I combine product craft with data fluency and modern AI tooling to make better decisions, faster.

Product Management & Strategy
Product Management Product Strategy Product Vision Product Road Mapping Product Launch Planning Product Development OKRs KPIs Stakeholder Management Business Analysis Process Improvement
Agile & Delivery
Agile Methodologies Scrum Kanban Scaled Agile Framework SDLC A/B Testing Behavior-Driven Development Feature Flag Management Software Project Management Azure DevOps Jira LaunchDarkly
AI & Emerging Tech
Artificial Intelligence (AI) AI Product Management Prompt Engineering Microsoft Copilot Cline Gemini NotebookLM RAG Architecture
Data & Analytics
SQL Microsoft SQL Server Data Analytics Snowflake Mixpanel Segment CDP Analytical Skills
UX & Design
User Experience (UX) User Interface Design Figma Rapid Prototyping Mobile Applications Requirements Analysis Requirements Gathering Postman API
Leadership & Communication
Leadership Strategic Communications Critical Thinking Stakeholder Management Cross-functional Teams Mentorship
Credentials

Certifications

Continuously investing in the craft — from AI product management to enterprise Agile frameworks.

Pendo.io
AI for Product Management
Pendo.io
Pendo.io
Product Discovery Certification
Pendo.io
Product School
Product Strategy Micro-Certification (PSC)™
Product School
Product School
Product Roadmapping Micro-Certification (PRC)™
Product School
Scaled Agile
Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner / Product Manager
Scaled Agile
Scaled Agile
Certified SAFe® 4 Practitioner
Scaled Agile
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)
Scrum.org