Portrait of Erman Yaman, product leader in Austin, TX

Austin, TX

Erman Yaman, Full-Stack Product Leader.

I take B2B and enterprise platforms from concept to market, and build the teams, standards and operating rhythm that keep them shipping, with AI built into how we design, build and decide. Most recently: McLane360, a unified customer platform our team took from concept to launch in six months, and ValuFact, an AI-native financial-intelligence product I built end to end.

Building products
15yrs
Products taken to market
14
UI design cycles with AI prototyping
1–2wks
Of revenue from a practice I built
20%
  1. discoverscattered notes, real problems
  2. synthesizepatterns emerge
  3. designa product takes shape
  4. ship & measure14 products taken to market
Selected work

selected projects

A showcase of recent product strategy and execution.

8 client products delivered by the Frumatic product and UX team I led, 2020–2022

Key achievements
ExperienceOpen full timeline

fifteen years of taking products from concept to market.

Fifteen years, from pricing a product category to building product and UX teams, guided by one principle: build things that deliver undeniable value.

I lead eCommerce product and UI/UX at McLane, a Berkshire Hathaway company, where I introduced AI-assisted prototyping to the design practice, and build ValuFact, an AI-native financial-intelligence platform, on my own time.

Feb 2026 – Present · Austin, TX

Senior Product Manager, eCommerce & UI/UX

McLane Company · a Berkshire Hathaway company

Own product strategy, roadmap and customer experience for McLane360, the unified B2B customer platform, leading a team of one Product Owner and two UI/UX leads.

  • Turned a request to extend browser ordering into McLane360, one platform for promotions, ordering, delivery visibility and business insights, and took it from concept through beta to launch in six months. The platform processed tens of millions of dollars in orders within its first six weeks.
  • Run product steering and quarterly roadmap planning with senior business, technology, sales and marketing leaders, resolving trade-offs across workstreams.
  • Launched at McLane Engage 2026 with customer and teammate satisfaction both above 4 out of 5 in post-event surveys, beating the target set before the show.
  • Established an eight-phase UX delivery framework, design-system standards and an AI-assisted, code-based prototyping practice that cut UI design cycles from months to one to two weeks.
  • Designed a vendor-agnostic product-data architecture that forms the business case for future eCommerce investment.
  • B2B eCommerce
  • Team leadership
  • Roadmap & steering
  • AI-assisted prototyping

education

  • Yale School of ManagementMaster of Advanced Management · 2018Honors in seven courses, including Digital Strategy and Management of Software Development
  • Koç University Graduate School of BusinessMBA · 2017Ranked 1st in class, 4.00 GPA; Class President and Student Representative
  • Anadolu UniversityBA, Economics · 2008

Full experience, education and skills →

Expertise

how I lead

How I lead strategy, operations and product experience, with AI built in.

key strengths

Self-Sufficient

Most can tell what needs to be done; a few can show how. I prototype in code and have shipped production features myself, and I build teams that work the same way: our AI-assisted prototyping practice at McLane cut UI design cycles from months to one to two weeks.

Resourceful

I accomplish more with less, and I buy before I build until an idea is validated. At Storia that meant growing past a million monthly users on a startup budget; at Frumatic it meant turning an in-house UX capability into a service line that brought in 20% of 2022 revenue.

Analytical

I decide with evidence and set the bar before the result is in: satisfaction targets for launches, pre-registered acceptance tests for models, and a plain rule instead of AI wherever the rule measures better.

how I work

The disciplines behind the results above.

AI-native product development

  • AI-assisted prototyping
  • AI-assisted development
  • LLM product integration
  • Structured outputs
  • Evaluation & acceptance gates
  • Model governance
  • AI cost controls
  • Deterministic fallbacks

Product & commercialization

  • Product strategy
  • Business cases
  • Pricing & packaging
  • Multi-year roadmaps
  • Go-to-market
  • Customer & market research

Operating rhythm & teams

  • Team building
  • Steering committees
  • Quarterly planning
  • Delivery frameworks
  • Design-system standards
  • Executive alignment

Tools & stack

  • Python / FastAPI
  • Next.js / TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQL
  • REST APIs
  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Google Analytics
  • Firebase
  • Google AI Studio
  • Cloudflare
  • VS Code
  • WordPress
InsightsView all

insights

Thoughts on strategy, design, and development.

· AI Product Development

Start With the Rule, Not the Model

When I built ValuFact, the best AI decision I made was keeping a model away from 97% of a job. A plain rule did it for free. Here is how I decide where a model actually earns its place...

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· Product Strategy

When Building Gets Cheap, Deciding Gets Expensive

AI took my team from months of design cycles to a week or two. I expected everything to get faster. It did not. The hard part did not shrink, it moved. Here is where it went...

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· Product Leadership

Write the Pass Mark Down Before You Look

Imagine a student who grades their own exam and decides the pass mark after seeing the score. They would never fail. That is how a lot of teams evaluate launches, experiments and AI models...

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· Product Strategy

Strategy: The Art of Not-Choosing

Imagine yourself on a small boat with ten holes leaking water, but you only have enough material to cover seven. The key to reaching shore lies in deciding which holes to cover...

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· UX Research

An Introductory Guide to UX Workshop Activities

User Experience workshops bring together designers, stakeholders, and users to collaborate on creating and refining exceptional digital products...

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· Software Development

Key Characteristics of a Top-Notch Software Development Company

Drawing on my experience collaborating with software development companies for over a decade, here are my insights on what to consider when seeking a services provider...

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