Product & Growth for AI-Native SaaS

Building products
that grow
themselves.

Product and Growth Leader specializing in PLG strategy, activation optimization, and growth systems for AI-native B2B SaaS. Experience across fintech and cybersecurity, from early-stage to 10M+ daily active users.

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About
Yakir Hannan

12 years in tech, leading product and growth across AI SaaS, fintech, and cybersecurity. Based in Tel Aviv. I build growth engines for products that scale through self-serve adoption, not sales headcount.

My focus is the space between product and revenue: activation funnels, onboarding flows, self-serve monetization, and the analytics stack underneath. I've applied this across B2B SaaS and B2C products, including a consumer platform with 10M+ daily active users.

Six companies so far, from seed-stage startups to a NASDAQ-listed platform. I chase what moves metrics, not what fills slide decks.

12+
Years in Tech
14K+
LinkedIn Following
10M+
Users at Scale

AI products have longer paths to value, higher trust barriers, and complex activation flows. I build the systems that solve that.

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Activation & Onboarding

Diagnosing and fixing the gap between signup and first value. AI products face unique activation challenges: trust in automation, time-to-value for ML-driven features, and complex setup flows. I map the entire journey from install to activation, identify where users drop off and why, then design and ship the flows that move them forward.

Funnel Analysis Drop-off Diagnosis Flow Design Metrics Framework
02

Growth Architecture

Designing end-to-end PLG systems from metrics definition through execution. I build the infrastructure that connects product analytics, lifecycle emails, billing optimization, and attribution into one growth engine.

North Star Design Lifecycle Emails Billing Optimization Analytics Stack Attribution
03

Product-Led Strategy

Translating business targets into product-driven growth plans. I define OKRs, build roadmaps, and align cross-functional teams around a single North Star metric. The goal is making the product the primary growth driver.

OKR Design Roadmapping Cross-Functional Alignment PLG Playbook

What I've built and shipped across AI-native B2B SaaS, fintech, and cybersecurity.

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Activation for AI Products
Redesigned signup-to-activation funnels for AI-powered SaaS products where users must trust automated decisions. Lifted activation rates to their highest point since product launch through billing flow restructuring, progressive trust-building in onboarding, and targeted behavioral nudges.
AI SaaS, Fintech, B2B
II
PLG Email Architecture
Designed and shipped multi-workflow lifecycle email systems from scratch, segmented by acquisition source and behavioral signals, to recover non-activated signups at scale.
Lifecycle Automation
III
Growth Metrics & Operating Cadence
Designed North Star metric frameworks adopted across product, sales, CS, and executive teams. Built weekly reporting cadences that replaced reactive decision-making with structured prioritization based on what moves revenue.
Analytics & Strategy
IV
B2C Growth at Scale
Led product growth for a consumer cybersecurity platform serving 10M+ daily active users. Owned conversion and cross-sell strategy, shipped ML-powered features, and ran growth experiments at scale.
Cybersecurity, B2C, 10M+ DAU

Writing about what I've learned building growth systems for AI products.

AI Product Growth

Why AI Products Have an Activation Problem

AI automation asks users to trust a black box with real business outcomes. That trust gap creates activation friction that traditional SaaS onboarding patterns can't solve. What works instead.

Growth Systems

The Compound Effect of Small Funnel Fixes

A 5% improvement at each stage of a 6-step funnel doubles throughput. Why incremental optimization beats big-bang redesigns in PLG.

Product Leadership

Metrics That Move Teams, Not Just Dashboards

The difference between a North Star that sits in a slide deck and one that actually drives daily decisions across product, engineering, and GTM.

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If you're working on PLG, activation, or growth for an AI product, I'd like to hear what you're building.