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Dara Afraz
Senior Product Manager, Industrial AI

Experience

Timeline

Roles, projects, and teams—reverse chronological.

Timeline

  1. June 2024 — Present

    Senior Product Manager, Industrial AI

    BeyondAI

    Own Operations Advisor. A constraint-management reasoner gives operators actual-versus-plan guidance and off-target mitigations. Took alerting from zero to one for mission-critical cases outside the operating plan, with four backend engineers, three frontend engineers, a UI/UX designer, and data engineering. That opened maintenance and asset-performance cases the plan-only product could not reach. With commercial, helped shape pricing and packaging and supported two new regional pilots, including a refinery now moving into annual-license terms.

  2. December 2022 — June 2024

    Product Design Lead, Knowledge-Base Operations

    BeyondAI

    No-code rule builder subject-matter experts use to encode operational logic for the reasoner. Real-time operations interface for Caltech autonomous racing, and telemetry views on refinery and plant data.

  3. September 2013 — December 2022

    Technical Product Manager & Design Lead

    Insight Learning Technology, Inc.

    Joint appointment with UCLA (Programmer Analyst II) through August 2022. Owned a no-code training platform commissioned for the Department of Defense. It supported $5M+ in Army and Air Force contracts. Prototyped training tools with the U.S. Marines. 200+ modules, used to train 1,000+ medical students.

  4. October 2014 — October 2015

    Product Designer & Developer

    Tilofy (contract)

    Core feed and events—UX + front-end.

  5. June 2013 — September 2013

    Design Innovation and Strategy — internship

    Use All Five

    Studio internship—Google-adjacent briefs, shipped prototypes.

Get in touch

dara@dara.pm

Resume — available on request.