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Nancy Wang

0 to 1 Security + Infra Builder, ex-AWS GM, Board Member

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $7,800,000.00

Work Experience

2025

  • SVP, Head of Engineering

    2025

    Leading Engineering across product, platform, data, and AI, as well as Operations and Program Management

  • VP, Head of Engineering - AI and Identity

    2025 - 2025

    Leading all product engineering for 1Password. And building identity for an agentic future.

2025

  • Product Advisor

    2025

    Advising the Mercor team on the AI Interview product. Check out the world's first fully-autonomous AI Interviewer: https://mercor.com/interviews/

2024

  • Venture Partner

    2024

    Partnering with early-stage founders at the intersection of data infra, cloud infra, and security. Leveraging my operator background to help them scale. Helped source and co-lead investments in: Dig Security, Armada.ai, Observo.ai, Mercor, Archil, Chalk.ai, and Knox Systems.

  • Director of Product & Engineering / GM, AWS Data Protection

    2019 - 2024

    Built AWS Data Protection from the ground up as the founding PM, later scaling to GM. Led product strategy, engineering, and GTM: growing the business to 130K+ enterprise customers, 1.5EB+ data protected, and $1B+ ARR. In the process, I built a multi-disciplinary high-performing team of several hundred engineers, PMs, product designers, and TPMs across 4 offices in the US, Canada, and the U.K.

2017 - 2019

  • Head of Cloud SaaS Products

    2017 - 2019

    Joined as a founding PM (3rd PM) and grew with the team to over 15+ PMs. Company grew from 650 to over 1,400 during tenure. Led inception and development of App Flows, the first SaaS product line, as well as our physical Windows and NAS (network attached storage) product offerings. Drove product positioning, outbound Go-to-Market (GTM), and pricing/packaging conversations.

2014 - 2016

  • Product Manager - Network Monitoring Platform

    2014 - 2016

    Led the product development and strategy for the network infrastructure team (infrastructure-as-a-service) at Google Fiber. Oversaw OSS/BSS product management within Google Access and Energy. Managed team of ISP (Inside Plant) engineers to deploy Small-Medium Business (SMBs) network in cities (Austin, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Atlanta and Nashville) across the country. Launched the first Google Fiber Academy for training engineers and technicians for Google Fiber deployments.

2012 - 2014

  • Technical Architect & Data Systems Integration Lead (Federal & Intelligence Community)

    2012 - 2014

    Led Palantir deployments on behalf of Deloitte for federal and intelligence community clients, architecting, building, and deploying data systems, visualization, and dashboards required to meet client mission. I held and this role required a Secret Clearance. Advised federal and intelligence community clients on creating and delivering appropriate technology roadmaps and system integrations against their agency objectives.

  • Systems/Management Analyst (One-Year Fellowship)

    2011 - 2012

    Architected and built HealthData.gov from within the Office of the CTO. HealthData.gov was a data initiative to democratize healthcare data and make it available to researchers, private sector, and other agencies within the federal, local, and state & local governments.

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