Saif Hassan

Saif Hassan works as a Product Manager at Poptin, Premio and Prospero. Where developers are focused on code, architecture, performance and engineering, Mr. Hassan would focus on the big picture of "what are we trying to do" and on the details of the user experience, the feature set, the way the product will get used. It is almost impossible to document a complete list of the responsibilities that he maintains.

5x Dean's List scholar. He has graduated with a Summa Cum Laude award, is known for combining analytical aptitude with creative intuition.

Besides, he is an entrepreneur and founded his own company. He was featured in Microsoft's 2016 October Event (Link: https://is.gd/uQANo3). He believes good design is not picking colors and making it pretty, rather removing steps, understanding motivations, bringing clarity and making it more navigable, faster, easier.

He was also a speaker at an event hosted by WordPress Co-founder Matt Mullenweg (Link: http://bit.ly/wptvsaif). He loves talking about human-centric design and human-computer interaction and is an advocate of user-centered products.

Apart from working as a PM, he loves writing. He is a writer by day and reader by night. He also works as the Chief Editor at WP Hive. As a PM, he oversees and manages a few products. He is obsessive about designing great human-centric user experiences that users love to use. He has sound knowledge of Human-Computer Interaction and focuses on creating experiences that follow HCI principles. He possesses strong technical knowledge of WordPress & SaaS products. Other skill sets include UX design, Python, C#, C++, C, and Java. To be noted, he is passionate about learning new things.

He brings together a team and rallies them around. It is his job to tackle a business problem and work with marketing teams to solve customer issues with unique and innovative solutions.

He serves at the coordinating point where all the disciplines come together: He is a hub that connects different teams, including designers, developers, testers, marketers.

Moreover, he loves communities and has co-founded a 450K+ member communities that got featured in the local media (Link: http://bit.ly/dsdbd). He is a passionate speaker; you can find him talking about WordPress, community, open-source projects and human-centric design.

He firmly believes that the websites and the tools used to build them should be well crafted, intuitive and accessible.

Specialties: product management, program management, agile project management, human-centric design, HCI, user experience design, SCRUM (Scrum Master), SEO, WordPress, communication, community and more.