Scott is a Senior Advisor at Norwest, advising portfolio companies on product management and partnering with founders and product leaders to scale through high-growth phases.

Scott brings deep experience building and leading world-class product organizations at category-defining technology companies. He was the first product leader at SendGrid, where he built the product team from the ground up, supported the company’s journey to IPO, and contributed to its $3B acquisition by Twilio. He later served as Chief Product Officer at GitLab, where he scaled the product organization from 15 to 65, expanded the product from point solutions into a full DevSecOps platform, and helped lead the company through a successful public offering.

Across his career, Scott has held responsibility for Product Management, Pricing, Growth, Data Science, Product Marketing, and Product Operations. He has extensive experience across multiple go-to-market models, including Enterprise Sales, Open Source, Freemium, and Product Led Growth, and brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective to product strategy and execution.

Scott’s career mission is to consistently create world-class product experiences through excellent product management leadership. He is especially passionate about coaching the craft of product management and helping teams do the best work of their careers. He believes that great product leadership drives better customer outcomes, stronger business results, and outsized impact.

Scott specializes in product management and leadership, product strategy, pricing and growth, team building, developer experience, and platform software across cloud, SaaS, AI and commercial open-source markets.