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Saman Salami
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Hey, I'm Saman 👋

I build AI products people actually use.

I'm a product guy based in Berlin. For the last 12 years I've worked across ad tech, martech and compliance software, and for the last few I've gone all-in on agentic AI: the kind of stuff that goes from idea to "wait, this actually works" in a few weeks, not a few quarters.

Right now I'm building Pixomi.io from scratch, an AI creative platform for teams who need great campaigns without a full production team. Before that: ex-Klarna, ex-heyData, and a string of freelance AI builds in between.

pixomi.io
Founder & AI Strategist · Dec 2025 – Present

An agentic creative automation platform built with Mastra, a custom RAG pipeline, Chroma vector storage, and a MongoDB/Express backend, designed so small teams can produce publish-ready campaign creative without a production team behind them.

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What people I've worked with say

"Saman was on my product team at The Brief and I instantly knew I had to hire him when I saw how he was thinking holistically about building products, both at the technical level and in the way to GTM. Saman codes, ships and knows how to market what he builds. On top of that, he's a lovely individual, humble and curious. We ran out of funding, but I'd love to work with Saman again and would recommend him to any team. Any team would be very lucky to have Saman with them."

Thibault Imbert TI
Thibault Imbert
Builder · ex The Browser Company, Picsart, GitHub, Adobe Managed Saman directly · Dec 2025

"I worked closely with Saman during our time at The Brief. While he wasn't part of my direct team, we collaborated extensively on the core of the Create Agent, one of our most complex and strategically important areas. Saman is a highly technical PM. He codes, researches deeply, and breaks down complex problems into actionable steps. Engineers genuinely enjoy working with him because he understands their perspective, asks the right questions, and collaborates seamlessly."

Ovidiu Gavril OG
Ovidiu Gavril
CTO @ The Brief · Building the AI Agency of the future Senior to Saman · Feb 2026

"I have been working with Saman for 6 months. He is a passionate product manager with an extensive technical background, great at communicating product features with internal and external stakeholders as well as getting into heavy technical details with the engineering teams. Apart from work he has a friendly and likable personality which definitely makes him a great asset to any product team."

Stéfan Cruçon SC
Stéfan Cruçon
Senior Product Manager · MarTech Channels Senior to Saman · Oct 2022

"Sami has brought in a lot of changes to the organisation, bringing in new ideas as well as great talents to complement the team. He's an easy going person to work with, and would always give constructive feedback which helps the organisation make critical decisions. He's proven to be a great asset to the team here in Forest, at times even being an honest and dependable friend."

Johary Mustapha JM
Johary Mustapha
Scaling Tech Across SEA · Forest Interactive, elfo, PrimaryGuard Managed Saman directly · Jul 2019

"When I heard my most favorite project manager was leaving the company, I didn't want to train another one, and I didn't want anyone. But she told me, don't worry, this new guy is great. Then Saman came into the picture. Beside the experience, the professionalism, the know-how, the ideas, he has this magic, this thing which is hard to describe. You just want him on your team, and your team will be the best team in the company. I wholeheartedly recommend him and would work with him again any time."

Tibor Orosz TO
Tibor Orosz
Lead Product Marketing Engineer @ MercatIQ Worked together on the same team

Other work

Where else I've shipped things

A few stops along the way: AdTech, MarTech, compliance and marketplaces.

Senior AI Product Manager

Aug 2025 – Dec 2025

TheBrief.ai is an AI-native creative agency building agentic tools that turn a single prompt into publish-ready ad campaigns, replacing traditional production teams with AI workflows for brands and agencies.

thebrief.ai

Head of Product

Nov 2022 – Feb 2025

heyData is a Berlin-based compliance SaaS platform trusted by thousands of European SMBs to automate GDPR, data protection and vendor risk management, backed by a team of in-house data protection lawyers.

heydata.eu

Product Manager, MarTech

Apr 2022 – Nov 2022

Klarna is one of Europe's largest fintechs, serving over 150 million consumers and 500,000+ merchants worldwide with payments, shopping and banking products.

klarna.com

Technical Product Manager

Nov 2020 – Apr 2022

Elfo is a leading A2P messaging platform in Southeast Asia, powering more than 2 billion transactions a year for telcos, banks and enterprises across Malaysia and the wider region.

elfo.com

Engineering Manager

Oct 2017 – Nov 2020

Forest Interactive is a digital commerce and telco enablement group operating across Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, powering gaming, fintech and value-added services for millions of users.

forestinteractive.com

Frontend Engineer

Jul 2014 – Oct 2017

Lizard Global is a Kuala Lumpur-based digital product studio building web and mobile apps for ambitious international startups, including consumer brands across Europe like Inner Circle and Brunott.

lizard-global.com

Products I've shipped

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