Navya Shah

hi, I’m Navya

Product manager who ships.

I’m the only PM at Ren, an AI startup that helps managers with hard conversations at work. I take things from a customer problem to shipped, and I design the screens myself.

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Four projects. Open any card for the full story, every screen and the reasoning behind it.

  1. Ren's redesigned Home: a morning brief on top of a stack of cards
    01Ren app redesignAI product, desktop and mobile2026

    Our biggest customers kept saying the same three things, so I redesigned the desktop and mobile app around them, and designed every screen myself.
  2. tryren.com homepage
    02Ren website relaunchMarketing site and go-to-market2026

    I rebuilt the marketing site and reworked how Ren explains itself. Free-trial signups surged afterward, opening a second way in.
  3. Local home screen: dinner tonight? A Local pick card in dark mode Saved places in Local
    03LocalMy own app, AI and iOS2026

    An AI app that answers “where should we eat?” with one confident pick, built from what critics, locals and creators say.
  4. 04Caught before launchProduct and security, Spin.AI and Quantech2025

    Three problems I found early at two security startups, and how each one got fixed.

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Navya Shah at USC in her graduation stole, Class of 2025

I’m the product manager at Ren, an AI tool that helps managers with hard conversations at work. I’m the only PM, so I end up doing a bit of everything. Mostly that’s been talking to customers, redesigning the desktop and mobile app, and working closely with engineering to get it shipped.

I recently finished my Master’s in Cybersecurity Engineering, along with my Bachelor’s in Economics and Data Science at USC. I like understanding how systems actually work, then turning messy, ambiguous problems into something concrete you can ship.

Before Ren I was on the product team at Spin.AI, a SaaS security startup, and before that in product ops at Quantech in Mumbai. In both places a lot of the work was noticing what was broken before users did and getting it fixed. I’m also still building Local, an AI app that gives hyper-local restaurant recommendations from sources like reviews and creator content.

Now
Product Manager at Ren, since July 2026
Where
New York
School
USC, MS Cyber Security Engineering (2026) and BA Economics and Data Science (2025)
Tools I design and build with
Pencil, Claude Code, React Native, Postgres, SQL, Python
  1. Jul 2026 – nowRen, Product Manager. Sole PM across discovery, design, launch and go-to-market.
  2. Mar 2026 – nowLocal, solo builder. AI restaurant recommendations, RAG on pgvector, Claude API.
  3. Sep 2025 – Jun 2026Spin.AI, Product Management Intern. Partner controls feature, account switching, 100+ security control mappings.
  4. Jun – Aug 2025Quantech Datascience, Product Operations Intern. Caught a data separation gap and a silent OCR failure before launch.
  5. May – Jul 2024IREP Credit Capital, Data Analyst Intern. SQL tracker across 1,000+ loan accounts.
  6. Aug 2023 – May 2025USC, Teaching Assistant for Object-Oriented Programming.