Yuri Gomes de Abreu
AI-Native Product Executive — Marketplaces & Pricing
yurigda.com · [email protected] · linkedin.com/in/yuri-gomes-de-abreu-169433101 · Brazil (GMT-3) · EN · PT · ES · FR
Product executive with 10+ years building marketplace, pricing, AI, and platform products at Mercado Libre, Uber, Apple, and McKinsey — plus 2× COO of tech scale-ups. AI-native operator who ships production software end-to-end. Targeting Director / Head of Product roles — global, remote.
Experience
Mercado Libre — Senior Product Manager, Pricing
2025–Present
Latin America
- Own the seller-pricing product roadmap — 15+ pricing changes: +11.5% quality inbound, USD 26M in efficiencies captured, USD 950K new revenue, 40K+ sellers.
- Led the product transformation of seller shipping pricing (flat-fee → weight-based) across 5 countries.
- Defined the product strategy and business case for a USD 60M pricing-platform investment — the strategic response to Amazon in Brazil.
- Designed AI-powered agentic workflows linking friction, support, and IT-repo signals to auto-generate and prioritize the product backlog.
Stanza — Fractional Product Manager
2026
US · Remote
- Ran the end-to-end product function solo for a venture-backed consumer app — my most AI-native operating model to date, alongside my Mercado Libre work.
- Built LLM agents/skills that absorbed the PM execution — scoping, dev kickoff, QA, PR review, lifecycle emails, refund/support triage, metrics digests — cutting routine PM work ~75%, with human approval gates.
Idiomus — Chief Operating Officer
2023–2024
Brazil
- Built the Finance, HR, Product, Customer Service, Legal, and Data functions while the company launched new revenue streams; national Top 3 customer-service award (RA1000).
Huli — Chief Operating Officer
2022–2023
Costa Rica
- Grew EBITDA 15% and total-factor productivity 10%; raised service level 40%; built an internal ERP + HR platform for 100 employees across 5 countries.
Apple — Engineering Program Manager, Apple Music
2022
Seattle
- Led the cross-functional assessment of the new Messaging in Apple Music vision and evaluated ML-driven personalization; extended Apple's official project-lifecycle framework with a new phase.
Uber — Pricing Manager, Latin America
2019–2021
São Paulo
- Owned pricing product strategy for Uber's driver marketplace — 3.5M drivers across 15 countries; USD 5M inefficiencies captured in 4 months; +16% driver satisfaction.
- Built Uber LatAm's first pricing-simulation platform (Python) — strategic pricing decisions from 5 days to 1.
McKinsey & Company — Researcher / Knowledge Consultant
2017–2019
Costa Rica
- Product-managed a proprietary consumption-forecasting platform: 54 engagements, 35 clients, 6 sectors; fast-track promotion.
Cartier — Knowledge Manager
2016–2017
Paris
- Knowledge system behind the Panthère de Cartier sunglasses launch; +20% innovation pace.
Education
The Wharton School, UPenn
MBA — Operations, Information & Decisions (STEM) · 2021–22
The Lauder Institute, UPenn
MA — International Studies · 2021–22
UTC Compiègne (France)
Diplôme d'ingénieur — Computer Engineering · 2011–16
Poli-USP (Brazil)
BEng — Industrial Engineering · 2011–16
AI-Native Portfolio
PetsApp
Pet-industry marketplace & SaaS · 10 countries
VIA
5 AI companions, 4 languages · Anthropic API
Claude Monitor
Open-source macOS menu-bar app
more at yurigda.com
Skills
AI
Claude Code, agentic pipelines, MCP, RAG, evals
Build
Python, SQL, Flutter, Firebase
Product
AI & agentic products, marketplaces, pricing, platforms, growth, experimentation
Languages
Portuguese & Spanish (native) · English & French (fluent)