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WHAT I DO: I help climate tech startups delight customers, increase revenue, and raise capital by providing interim product leadership or advisory support. I take an AI-first approach that allows me to be both lean and impactful.
WHO I WORK WITH
I help teams that ship lots of features, but still struggle to create products their customers truly love.
🌱 Stage: Climate tech startups who have raised a seed to series B round
🤝 Business model: B2B marketplaces, SaaS, B2C services
📱Products: Software products—especially on mobile—that regular people use (frontline workers or consumers—not just climate nerds), including project simulation & development, data collection & predictive insights, built environment, circularity/reverse logistics, and energy management.
🌍 Geos: I am NYC-based, but work heavily w/ firms outside the U.S.
SERVICES I PROVIDE
💼 Interim & fractional Chief Product Officer
🧑🏫 Coaching PMs & new heads of product
📦 Pricing & packaging
🧪 New product validation & research
HOW I'M UNIQUE
⚡ I work specifically with climate tech startups.
💰 I was previously chief product and strategy officer at a SaaS startup that raised a $27M Series A, and was chief strategy officer at Civic News Company, where I raised $12M to found Votebeat and Healthbeat.
🔥 I led product teams at Facebook, Amazon, and Rent the Runway, but thrive in early-stage environments where fiery intensity and asking relentlessly deep questions is a feature, not a bug.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
"After working with Alison—validating what we’re doing, course correcting when needed, and ensuring we’re going in the right direction—I now feel like we are ready to scale the department." — Emily Owen, Head of Product at Shoreline Wind
"Working with Alison gave me the thought partnership I needed to clearly articulate a vision for our work over the next five years. She asked smart questions and consistently helped push my initial answers to smarter places." — Anika Anand, Deputy Director of LION
"Alison is a true visionary with an uncanny ability to see the future and make it real." — Elizabeth Green, Founder and CEO of Civic News Company
READY TO TALK?
Reach out to me directly here on LinkedIn or email me at alison@alisongo.com.
INTERESTED IN MY PAST WORK IN MEDIA, E-COMMERCE, OR CREATORS?
Let's talk! Reach out, same as above.
LEARN MORE ABOUT ME
Subscribe to my free newsletter ✉ “You consume more news and media than anyone I’ve ever met” is something a previous boss said to me. The newsletter is where all of that energy will be channeled. https://alisongo.substack.com/ 
I am an experienced 2nd-line and 1st-line senior sales leader with demonstrated strengths in building relationships, learning and development, and coaching sales teams—as well as a multimedia sales division—to consistently exceed expectations. I have a proven record of managing transitions and change while maintaining a metrics-driven focus to coach teams to success. I've led teams to exceed quotas in national and mid-market sales, SMB sales, field sales, inside sales, and vendor sales channels. My highly personal and encouraging coaching style empowers reps, helping them not only exceed expectations but also grow within their careers.
I have built sales teams from scratch, defined sales processes, and developed and implemented sales training and career development programs—often collaborating with cross-functional business partners to drive efficiency and revenue growth. I thrive in fast-paced, deadline-driven, and frequently evolving environments, from traditional print media to tech leaders like LinkedIn and Google, where I have developed and executed focused Go-To-Market (GTM) sales strategies. My leadership has contributed to achieving an annual run rate of $50M to $500M, >40% YoY growth, and deal sizes ranging from $50K on the small side at Google to >$3M in multi-year contracts at LinkedIn.
Over the past couple of years, I've also championed the integration of GAI/ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini into workflows, leading to increased efficiency and innovation in our sales processes.
When I'm not coaching my team at LinkedIn or coming up with news ways to use GAI, you will find me career coaching individuals who are looking to change jobs or simply develop within their careers. I'm also heavily invested in my family and community - room parent for my son's kindergarten class, taxiing him to all his extra curricular activities, planning neighborhood potlucks/appreciation dinners for our local fire house etc, and also VP on our neighborhood's HOA. 
