👋 About

I build product systems that ship.

I’m Michael Luchen, a product leader (Director of Product / Head of Product) specializing in B2B SaaS, AI-native product systems, and scaling distributed teams.

Over 12+ years, I’ve led 50+ products for 10-person startups and global brands (including Adidas and Callaway). I care about building product organizations that ship like startups but scale like enterprises — with systems that ship, and teams that thrive.

Where I’ve led product

Float — Director of Product (Global, remote-first B2B SaaS)

Most recently, I served as Director of Product at Float, a 14-year-old, bootstrapped, fully distributed resource management platform.

I joined as the company was doubling in size and helped lead a multi-year transformation that:

• Moved the org from handoffs and irregular releases to cross-functional squads, continuous discovery, and continuous delivery
• Launched a “One Team, One Roadmap” operating model that unified 50+ people across 15+ time zones and brought product, platform, and GTM work into a single view
• Helped drive 46% ARR growth and a 48% reduction in churn, while Float reached G2’s #1 resource management platform position

I also authored Float’s early generative AI strategy and helped establish its Intelligence squad in partnership with Move37, focusing on agent-driven workflows (agent flows alongside user flows), not just a chat box bolted onto existing features.

Crema — Product leadership across 50+ products

Before Float, I spent nine years at Crema, a digital product studio where I led product management as Director of Product Management for a ~50-person team:

• Built the Product Management practice from the ground up
• Led product strategy and delivery for clients ranging from startups to global consulting firms
• Designed frameworks and ways of working that leadership later described as having my “fingerprints woven through” the systems, processes, and values of the studio

Along the way, I’ve also:

• Hosted The Product Manager Podcast (now part of CPO Club), interviewing product leaders on how the craft is evolving
• Written about product, remote work, and collaboration for Miro, The Product Manager, The Digital Project Manager, and others

What I’m focused on now

In 2025, my family and I relocated from the Washington, D.C. area to Athens, Greece to be closer to extended family and cultivate a different balance between tech and everyday life.

I’ve time-boxed this chapter as a Relocation & R&D Sabbatical, based in Athens and working US/EU hours. Right now my focus is on:

• Prototyping AI-native product systems
• Using LLMs, agents, and lightweight automation to rethink product ops, discovery, roadmapping, and stakeholder communication
• Advising a small number of growth-stage B2B SaaS teams
• Product transformation, PLG, and GTM systems
• Mentoring student teams in the ACS Athens Open entrepreneurship program
• Product strategy, discovery, business modeling, and pitching

If you’d like the more personal story behind the move and this season, I wrote about it in: A new chapter in Athens.

How we might work together

I’m a US citizen based in Athens, Greece, working across US and EU time zones. I’m available now for:

1. Full-time leadership
   Director / Head / VP Product roles at remote-first or hybrid B2B SaaS companies.

2. Selective fractional work
   1–2 Fractional CPO / product advisory engagements focused on product transformation, PLG, and AI-native product systems.

If your roadmap is stalling, releases are slipping, or product and engineering feel misaligned — and you want a systems-driven product leader who’s done this at scale — I’d love to talk.

👉 Read my Personal Readme (“user manual”) to see how I work
👉 Or connect with me on LinkedIn