Senior operators. The team you meet is the team that does the work.
Momentum works with a select, trusted network of expert product, design, and technology leaders with deep expertise in AI. Clients engage Momentum directly — partners join the project when their expertise is the best fit.
Heather Gawel
Founder · Product Leadership
Heather is the founder of Momentum Product Co. and a fractional product leader who helps B2B SaaS companies navigate product and market inflection points. Over 15 years in product — most recently as VP of Product & Design and Innovation Lab leader — she's led teams through 0→1, post-PMF scale, and $100M+ portfolios across medtech, salestech, energy, e-learning, and cybersecurity. The throughline: the hard part was never building; it's deciding what's worth building. Today she advises founders and product teams on where AI actually belongs in their process — and where it doesn't. Her hands-on AI-for-product workshops have trained hundreds of product people, including teams from Okta, eBay, Amazon, Shopify, and BMO, at a 4.9/5 average rating. She also runs PM Waterloo, the Tri-Cities' largest product community.
Uday Gajendar
Experience & Product Design
Design strategist with 20+ years leading teams from confusion to clarity — Oracle, Adobe, Citrix, PayPal, and Automation Anywhere. Trained at Michigan and Carnegie Mellon, he focuses on the hard middle: unclear strategy, misaligned teams, fuzzy customer signals, and stalled execution. He joins Momentum engagements when deep experience-design leadership is the best fit — from AI-enhanced products to complex workflows that need clarity before they scale.
Babajide Okusanya
Technical AI Lead
AI engineer and consultant who helps non-technical founders save the AI apps they've built — before they break in production. He has trained 2,000+ engineers, PMs, and go-to-market professionals on practical AI adoption, and previously founded a B2B supply chain platform. As Momentum's technical partner, he takes what founders and teams build from "it works" to "it ships and survives."
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We're always looking for senior product, design, and technical leaders who ship with AI.