Product, Marketing, and Operations
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Bernadette Cay has 15 years of experience spanning Product, Marketing, and Operations. She has launched products at scale at Google, led teams through hypergrowth at a Series B startup acquired by Twitter, and built from the ground up at a Seed stage startup backed by a16z.
Bernadette brings a Product-led approach and a unique blend of operating experience, strategy, and organizational design to take companies to their next stage of growth and grow the team as leaders along the way. Bernadette holds a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.
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Discuss a project or pain point: https://calendly.com/bernadette-cay/30min
// Availability
Now until Jan 16, 2026 and intermittently over the next few years
- Open to a multi-week focused sprint / deep dive
- Open to engagements of 1-3 days/week
- Open to packages of consulting hours
// Highlights
- Launched products as a Product Marketing Manager at Google, spanning both B2C and B2B across Chrome and Ads and leading 60+ global cross-functional team members.
- Joined MoPub at Series B as a Product Manager in Data Infrastructure. Scaled product, infrastructure, and team during a period of hypergrowth, acquisition by X / Twitter, and Twitter's IPO.
- Previously COO and on the founding team of an a16z-backed startup. Made foundational contributions to grow the company from 5 to 14 team members and from $6M to $12M in Seed funding.
Bernadette Cay_Resume_2025.pdf
// Services
Flagship Services
- Executive Thought Partnership & Strategy
- Founder-level perspective: can take a birdseye view of the market and coordinate cross-functional capabilities to work towards funding and product milestones
- Serve as trusted proxy in select internal and external contexts
- Skilled at leveraging resources available through investors' Operating Teams
- Special projects: compliance, annual planning, vet and program manage acquisitions, tender offers, etc.
- Examples of Projects – Intersections of Product, GTM/Marketing, and Operations
- For larger organizations
- For startups
- For non-profits
Foundational Skills & Services