Ephraim Wenger
I build systems
that compound.
Lead Product Manager at FINRA. Former Senior PM at Walmart. 0→1 Founder.
How I Run My Job Search Like a PM
42
Applications sent
Acquisition
Over time
11
Response rate
Activation
26%
4
Interview Loop
Conversion
64%
0
Offers received
Revenue
final rounds
Career as a Product
I run my job search the same way I run a product: Define → Ship → Measure → Optimize → Repeat.
Main objective: maximize offers. I treat myself as the product and break the journey into measurable stages.
Stage
Metric
Acquisition
Applications sent
Activation
Response rate
Conversion
Interview Loop
Revenue
Offers received
Work
My Portfolio
Lead Product Manager
FINRA
Compliance Platform Modernization
- 90% reduction in false positives
- $2M+ in operational efficiency gains
- 60% throughput increase across the compliance review pipeline
Senior Product Manager
Walmart
Global Legal Platform Rebuild
- 60% reduction in intake volume and processing time
- $1M+ in measurable productivity gain
- 20,000 users onboarded at launch
Founder
Yesod
0→1 Community Engagement Platform
- 100+ communities onboarded in initial cohort
- 20% waitlist-to-activation conversion rate
- Built and shipped from 0 with founding team
Perspective
How I Think
Growth is usually a product problem.
Most growth plateaus trace back to friction in the product — not budget, not headcount, not marketing. The system is the constraint.
Distribution is part of product design.
How something reaches users is not a go-to-market afterthought. It is a design decision made before the first line of code.
Regulated environments require UX empathy.
Compliance constraints do not excuse poor design. They demand more rigorous design — because the cost of user error is higher.
Systems beat heroics.
Durable outcomes come from repeatable processes, not exceptional individuals. The PM's job is to build the system that makes heroics unnecessary.