Ami Vora
Head of Product @ Anthropic
Former CPO at Faire, led product for WhatsApp and Facebook Ads at Meta. Board member at Datadog.
βMaking an impact through authenticity and curiosity, covering product design, engineering tradeoffs, and go-to-market execution.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Head of Product | 2025-present |
| Faire | Head of Product | ~2022-2024 |
| Meta (WhatsApp) | VP of Product | ~2019-2022 |
| Meta (Facebook) | Director of Product | ~2014-2019 |
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βIt's kind of my tagline. There were a few years where I had to be careful about not saying it because whenever I said it, people would be like, she disagrees. So I've had to use a thesaurus and expand...β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βIt's a pretty bad, bad look, but it's really true. As you get more breadth, you are less and less able to go deep on everything that deserves going deep and you just end up doing a different service t...β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βI mean, I think for what it's worth, I think I still do a fair amount of product pitching in the past few years because there's always someone else to convince.β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βEspecially if you want to do something dramatically different. Really, I think the biggest service for people who are starting out a little earlier is that point around bringing the recommendation, re...β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βIt's a bigger hill and it's worth it.β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βI mean, it sounds a little wild now that I think about it.β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βA different way, yeah. You're focusing on the execution of the system a little bit more, but you got to stay connected, I think, to the customer and to what you're bringing to them.β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βI think I got that same feedback quite a lot, actually, of needing to think bigger and be more visionary, etc. And I still do, frankly, actually, there's moments where I retrench way too far into exec...β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βWhatever, yeah. The thing that best matches the overall customer outcome that mirrors the company outcome as well.β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βI watch a lot of witty workplace comedies from the mid 2000s. So I watch a lot of The Office or 30 Rock reruns. Things are just very comfortable that I already know everything, there's no surprises. I...β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βIt's made me think about, what are all the things I think about repeatedly without really having trigger or reason? And there's still a lot. I don't think about the Roman Empire though. That is not on...β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
βI love jokes. There was a year at Facebook where I posted a joke of the week to the company and they're all terrible.β
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)