Product Manager · Chicago, IL

Lizelotte
Green

PM who codes

I go by Liz. I'm a PM at Balsamiq, an AI-powered wireframing and prototyping tool built for product teams. 10 years in product management: joined in 2016 as Sales Support Lead and CRM Product Manager for Olio, our internal licensing and entitlements platform, then took on PM of our core product in late 2023. The path shows up in how I work: close to customers, close to the product, and close to the code.

This year I owned the design, front-end implementation, and QA for our per-project to per-user pricing migration, including the Stripe-integrated billing page, shipped with Claude Code as my build partner. I also led the AI credit pack monetization research and set per-editor AI credit limits so they behave like electricity: invisible in normal use, only visible when spiking.

I work best at the crossover of product judgment and implementation. I'm looking for that kind of room: small-to-mid B2B SaaS, AI-forward, teams where PMs can ship.

Currently: shipping our legacy-customer cancellation flow with Claude Code.

Portrait of Lizelotte Green
Recent essay
PM in the code: How I built and shipped a pricing update

An honest first-person account of designing, coding, and QA-ing our new billing page with Claude Code as build partner. Balsamiq blog, July 2026.

Product craft

  • Shape Up (adapted)
  • Pitch shaping and betting-table alignment
  • Customer research interviews
  • Cross-functional decision alignment

AI product design

  • Where AI surfaces, where it stays silent
  • AI credit systems and monetization
  • Prompt assessment for AI features
  • Usage-tier modeling

Shipping

  • Claude Code production shipping
  • Stripe integration and billing
  • Front-end implementation, end-to-end QA
  • Same-day fixes in code

Discovery & analytics

  • PostHog funnels, cohorts, session replays
  • SQL for anything the UI can't answer
  • Cohort-driven prioritization
  • Direct customer interviews

Some of what I've owned end to end: shipping code, moving a room with data, and building the process the company ships inside. Click through for the full write-up.

If you're building AI-forward product where PMs ship, run their own research, and own decisions end to end, I'd love to talk. I'm looking for small-to-mid B2B SaaS teams where product judgment and implementation live in the same person.

PM in the code: How I built and shipped a pricing update

An honest first-person account of designing, coding, and QA-ing Balsamiq Cloud's new billing page with Claude Code as build partner. The essay behind the pricing migration case study. Balsamiq blog, July 2026.

Kill the HiPPO — Chapter 3

How our owner and I decide what to build at Balsamiq: choosing a "season" of work (features, chores, or bugs), running a weekly Product Review Board, and shaping the roadmap through a monthly meeting. Interviewed by Steve McLeod and Siew Ann Tan, 2026.

Usability heuristics: A sanity check before you ship your product

A practical guide to using heuristics as a lightweight evaluation tool before shipping. Balsamiq blog, September 2025.