Principal Product Manager — Analytics Platform, AI & Data Products San Diego, CA · linkedin.com/in/jabali · mjabali.github.io

Summary

Principal Product Manager at Expedia Group focused on analytics platforms, AI-enabled data workflows, and the development of internal capabilities that help teams move faster with data. Recent work has centered on an AI-enabled analytics interface and adjacent analytics experiences, helping turn governed data access, schema discovery, query execution, and collaboration workflows into practical tools teams can use from AI clients and developer environments. Works across product strategy, platform adoption, documentation, and cross-functional alignment, including defining roadmap opportunities around skills/domain registries, testing and validation expectations, and the broader platform standards needed to make AI-assisted analytics reliable, safe, and scalable inside the enterprise.

Experience

Expedia Group — 7+ years

Principal Product Manager, Analytics Platform, AI & Data Products July 2024 – Present

  • Lead product work for an AI-enabled analytics interface and related platform experiences, with a focus on rollout, scale, authentication, guardrails, documentation, and the platform standards needed to support reliable enterprise adoption.
  • Define and evolve governed analytics workflows connecting exploration, querying, publishing, and collaboration; create demos, tutorials, and enablement material that make these capabilities more accessible.
  • Partner across teams on roadmap priorities such as skills libraries, domain registries, and validation approaches for AI-assisted analytics use cases.
  • Contribute to analytics platform strategy across SQL engine decisioning, cost and performance evaluation, and modernization initiatives, including self-service analytics, reusable workflows, and legacy platform migration planning.
  • Previously led Developer Experience initiatives across the developer ecosystem, spanning development environments, workflow automation, tools, and productivity, while partnering cross-functionally to align developer needs with business goals and using feedback and impact measurement to continuously improve developer satisfaction and operational effectiveness.

Senior Director of Partner Success July 2022 – July 2024

  • Directed Partner Success and Developer Enablement teams, delivering SDKs, training materials, and AI-driven applications that grew partner engagement and platform adoption by 80%.
  • Streamlined technical onboarding for new partners, cutting time-to-production from months to weeks.
  • Owned the full partner lifecycle — client SDK development and maintenance, conversational and generative AI application development, tutorials, samples, demos, training materials, and technical documentation — while supporting partners building Virtual Agents (chatbots) and communication channels (Email, SMS, Push, Inbox).

Director of Partner Success July 2019 – July 2022

  • Headed the Conversation Platform Developer Experience and Partner Enablement teams; owned the Communication Platform, including client SDKs, tutorials, samples, demos, training materials, and technical documentation.
  • Supported partners end-to-end — from concept to production — on Virtual Agent (chatbot) design and multi-channel notification delivery (email, SMS, push, social media).

Oracle

Senior Principal Product Manager October 2017 – July 2019

  • Product Manager for Oracle Digital Assistant channels and client SDKs — designed, prototyped, specified, and managed critical product features in partnership with engineering.
  • Supported customers and partners through evaluation, development, and deployment; built demos on the Mobile and Digital Assistant (Bots) stack for global, cross-timezone teams.
  • Presented at Oracle conferences and led hands-on labs worldwide; reviewed technical documentation, articles, and whitepapers.

Twilio Inc.

Solutions Architect April 2016 – October 2017

  • Delivered Twilio’s vision, strategy, and product presentations on multi-factor authentication (MFA) and account takeover solutions to executives, product owners, and developers.
  • Architected customer solutions end-to-end; built demos, API samples, mobile applications, and testing frameworks; led proof-of-concepts and technical workshops from requirements through deployment.

Earlier Career — Enterprise Integration & Middleware

2000 – 2016

Principal/Senior Solutions Consultant and Architect roles at Oracle Corporation, TIBCO Software, Kaazing Corporation, FuseSource Corp., OpenSpan Inc, and Progress/Sonic Software, spanning cloud, mobility, SOA, ESB, and enterprise data integration. Delivered technical training, proof-of-concepts, and customer workshops worldwide; active contributor to Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, and ServiceMix open-source projects.

Education

B.S., Information Technology — Faculdades Associadas de São Paulo (FASP), 1998 – 2002

Certifications & Languages

  • AWS Academy Graduate — AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
  • English (Native), Portuguese (Native), Spanish (Limited Working)