Amber
Harriger
Building things people rely on, in spaces I care about.
Leaning toward health, the outdoors, travel, and mission-driven work.
Product Manager with 8+ years across enterprise SaaS. At Workday I led the 0-to-1 launch of self-service on Journeys, a platform that grew to 1,300+ customers and $80M ARR during my tenure. I started with writing code before I moved into product management, and lately, I'm back to building, this time with AI.
Hopefully touching grass or on a plane. Just back from 17 countries on a sabbatical across North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and Central America. I'm obsessed with my corgi furball named Louie, the mountains called me to Denver, and I have a passion for wellness.
Customer-obsessed. Technically grounded. AI-Fluent.
I started in engineering because I loved the puzzle of how the pieces fit together and where each one gets built. That instinct never left, and it's why I can get into the data model or the architecture with my team when it's the thing that gets us to the right answer.
I do my best work in new problem spaces, especially the messy ones most people avoid. My instinct is to dig into what's actually going wrong and turn it into a plan that gets us somewhere better. The best products come from asking the right questions and getting honest answers about the real problem.
The LLM wave handed me the tools to match that instinct. Now I can build the solution instead of just describing it, and take a problem from understanding it all the way to something I can put in front of people.
On stage in front of over 1000 attendees at Workday's 2024 annual conference
Where
I'm Headed
I do my best work in the messy, new problem spaces, where I get to dig into what's actually going wrong and build toward a clear way forward. That instinct has carried me across fintech, cybersecurity, and HR tech, and it isn't tied to any one industry.
The parts of life that pulled me to Denver and around the world this past year are the same ones I want to build for now: the outdoors, my own health, and travel. A place that's mission-driven; that's where I see myself making the most impact.
Eight years building enterprise SaaS.
I traveled across 17 countries and now I'm building with AI.
- Created an operating system for my product work: custom skills, scheduled agents, Claude Code
- Built One Day Stronger with Claude Code, a personalized PT app to support my own injury
- Developed a context engineering practice across the builds
I owned the 0-to-1 self-service launch on Journeys, which grew to 1,300+ customers and $80M ARR during my tenure.
- Ran continuous customer discovery (150+ interviews) and a design partner program with 10+ trusted customers
- Designed the annual strategy planning methodology that aligned a 50+ person org at the VP level
- Drove the AI product vision from POC through roadmap integration
Four case studies on how I think.
Putting the employee in the driver's seat.
Pushed for self-service at Workday Journeys, ran the design partner program, and shipped a minimum viable bet that half of requesting customers adopted within a release cycle.
Restructuring a Platform's Data Layer to Unlock Scale and AI
The data structure that organized every journey in the system was the same one preventing customers from using the product the way they needed to.
From Scattered Inputs to a VP-Aligned Product Strategy
Designed the methodology that drove five PMs across five time zones to create a VP-aligned product strategy with three investment areas and a QBR cadence to keep it alive.
Defining VMware's Cross-Portfolio Security Strategy
Nobody at VMware had a perspective on cross-portfolio XDR yet. I built one that evaluated multiple product dimensions, placing the Native XDR bet, and getting executive alignment to move forward.
I don't just use AI products. I build with them too.
The life part of life.
Say hello.
I'd love to hear what you're working on. Open to Senior/Staff PM and above, with a soft spot for outdoor & camp tech, health, and travel. Mission-driven first.