Hello

Hi, I'm Zaara! I'm drawn to early-stage problems, especially in consumer tech, cybersecurity, health & wellness, and go-to-market strategy.

I like being in the room before the roadmap exists, talking to users, testing assumptions, and figuring out what's actually worth building.

School
NYU Stern, BTE, Dec 2027
GPA
3.74
Currently
Product Management Intern, Hadrian
Zaara Israni
Thesis

What excites me most is taking a raw, unvalidated idea and turning it into something people actually use, then figuring out how to get it in front of the people who'll pay for it.

Built it
Founded Cue from zero to 70 users, running 80+ interviews before writing the roadmap.
Sold it
Led GTM and growth work across two companies, automating manual research to save hours every week, and repositioning products when user data proved the original pitch wrong.
Tested it
I never assume there's a problem, I validate it first. 180+ interviews across five companies have trained me to question my own bias before I trust the data.
Track

Where I've worked.

Jun 2026 – Present
Product Management Intern
Hadrian · Cybersecurity
Building an AI agent that unifies ZoomInfo, Claude, and enrichment tools, cutting research time 67% and saving the SDR team 16 hours a week. Also built a system that scans RFP notifications across 50 states, surfacing about 15 qualified security opportunities monthly, after interviewing 6 SDRs and GTM leads to diagnose the workflow it replaced.
Jan 2026 – May 2026
Strategy Intern
Kivira · Healthcare
Interviewed 20+ primary care physicians to uncover referral bottlenecks, led ICP segmentation across 3 physician archetypes around referral speed, and built pilot GTM strategies phased across 2 care settings.
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
Growth and Operations Intern
GR0 · Digital Marketing Agency
Coordinated weekly executive briefs across 6 business leads, increased Monday.com adoption about 25% through 5+ monthly onboarding sessions, and built unified Excel dashboards from Amazon, Pacvue, and Monday.com data to speed up reporting.
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025
Founder & Product Lead
Cue · AI Sound Discovery
Founded and led product for an AI sound-discovery startup targeting the $6B+ creator economy. Ran 80+ user interviews to shape the roadmap, cutting projected dev spend 65% and onboarding 70 early users, while building a GTM plan projecting 20% MoM revenue growth.
Oct 2024 – Nov 2024
Product Consultant
Fourplay · Consumer
Ran 15 user interviews that surfaced social stigma, not UX, as the real adoption barrier for a dating app. Repositioned onboarding and ad targeting around that insight, lifting sign-up intent 70% and engagement 30%.
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
Marketing and Finance Intern
OBVI · DTC Wellness
Executed 45 email campaigns to 50,000+ recipients, refining audience segmentation to lift opens 25% and sign-ups 15%. Analyzed return on ad spend to recommend channel reallocations that improved conversions about 8% and cut CAC about 5%, and built a TikTok content framework that grew average post impressions from about 150 to about 2,500 and lifted engagement 30%.
Work

Selected projects.

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