Dan Sears

Dan Sears is a hands-on product and AI executive who coaches ambitious product leaders making the leap to Sr Director, VP, and CPO roles. He operates as a Founder and fractional Chief Product Officer for companies navigating critical inflection points.

With 25 years of diverse experience across enterprise B2B SaaS, data and AI platforms, and B2C marketplaces at Microsoft, eBay, PayPal, Meta, and Capital One, Dan has driven $700M+ in attributable revenue while building pioneering AI and data platforms. He's commercialized ML and NLP products, worked across Series A to Fortune 500 scale, giving him the range and operational depth to coach leaders through the realities of finding product-market fit, building teams, and navigating organizational complexity.

Dan's coaching integrates strategic execution with inner work; helping leaders develop the self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and mental resilience required to sustain high performance under pressure.As a former college athlete and now mountain runner and freediver, he understands what it takes to sustainably thrive at high levels and brings that lens to developing product executives.

As an executive coach, Dan works 1:1 with high-potential PMs and product leaders building the commercial judgment, strategic thinking, and leadership presence to drive measurable business outcomes.