Howdy, I'm Sam Zoloth
I'm a product leader currently:
- -giving artists more time to create at
a major animation studio - -helping my team get more value out of AI at
Amdocs - -building things for family, friends, and my community
You can see what I was doing before that below ↓
What people say
Trusted by teams at major animation studios, healthcare startups, and Fortune 500 companies.
“Sam can take a ton of information from different sources and distill it down to what actually matters. That's huge for product work.”
— Bret Janak, VP of Design, Stellar Elements
“A great manager is a rare and invaluable gift. Sam Zoloth was that great manager for me.”
— Darci Nevitt, Data Analyst, Stellar Elements (reported to Sam for 4 years)
“Everyone on our team bounces ideas and strategy off of Sam because we know how thoughtful he is.”
— Jordan Daly, Content Strategist, Stellar Elements
Experience
A decade building products across domains.
Artists, Not Archivists
Transformed how a major animation studio manages 20+ years of creative assets. Led product strategy for a digital asset platform, reducing asset discovery from 15-30 minutes to under 60 seconds while shifting the team from reactive feature delivery to discovery-driven development.
Analytics Strategy Framework - Organizational Transformation
Developed proprietary Action vs. Clarity Matrix framework driving systematic cultural change, multi-million dollar sales wins, and +46% CRO improvement through analytics capability building.
AI Companion Launch in 30 Days
Shipped an AI Companion product in one month by compressing discovery-to-spec cycles into rapid prototyping sprints, delivering dev-ready specifications under extreme time pressure.
Artists, Not Archivists
Analytics Strategy Framework - Organizational Transformation
AI Companion Launch in 30 Days
AI-Powered Market Research in 2 Weeks
Transportation Management System Strategy
Ferry Booking System Redesign
AI-Powered Education Platform Strategy
Scaling From Stealth to Unicorn
Consumer Health Subscription Growth
What I'm writing about
Thoughts on product, technology, and building things.
Boil the Oceans
Everyone says "don''t boil the ocean." That advice assumed the cost of ambition stayed high. It doesn''t anymore.
Book Bot and the Case for Personal Software
A designer with no coding background built a personalized book recommendation engine in eight hours. Not for a client. Not for a startup. For herself.
Architecture Beats UX: Root Cause Diagnosis in Product
Most teams optimize UI when the problem is system structure.