Product Leader
Carlos Gil is a strategic product leader with 12+ years building new products and scaling core product areas. He co-founded Basis and led it from inception to acquisition by Digits, with end-to-end ownership across product, engineering, and go-to-market. His work spans AI products, workflow automation, payments, and data-rich systems that drive adoption, revenue growth, and operational efficiency.
Select Work
A record of building new products, scaling core product areas, and leading cross-functional bets across B2B SaaS, consumer, marketplace, and AI-native environments.
Principal Product Manager
Led post-acquisition FP&A integration, then owned AI Invoicing, Bill Pay, and AR/AP workflows while creating a new AI workflows and self-serve analytics product area.
>$500K ARR integrated. GPV scaled from ~$750K to $20M. Invoicing attach rate grew 5x.
Co-Founder, CTO / Head of Product
Co-founded a real-time planning platform and led product, engineering, and GTM for software that replaced spreadsheet-heavy workflows.
$1M+ ARR within 12 months. 200+ B2B customers. 100+ integrations. Acquired by Digits.
Head of Product & Engineering
Led product, engineering, and design org build-out in a fast-growing hospitality marketplace while shaping booking, reservations, and market expansion strategy.
Direct bookings grew from 0% to >40%. Expanded into 10+ cities during a $100M+ growth phase.
Personal Project
An AI-powered family recipe app that captures, organizes, and reimagines home cooking through thoughtful product design.
Modern product-taste signal and applied AI exploration.
Principal Product Manager
May 2024 – Present · Remote
Carlos joined Digits through the acquisition of Basis and first led the integration of the FP&A business into the company, bringing in >$500K ARR and helping expand Digits from reporting into planning and higher-value finance workflows.
He then owned AI Invoicing, Bill Pay, and AR/AP workflows, growing GPV from roughly $750K at launch to $20M while shaping the strategy behind activation, pricing, and monetization. He built Invoicing from 0 to 1, creating a simpler invoice-to-cash experience and increasing attach rate 5x from 2% to 10%.
Later, he created a new AI workflows and self-serve analytics product area for GTM teams, cutting reporting turnaround from days to minutes and influencing roughly $2M in pipeline. Across FP&A, payments, and AI workflows, he partnered across six functions and led a major migration that reduced customer issues by 90% as the product scaled.


Co-Founder, CTO / Head of Product
Jun 2020 – May 2024 · Acquired by Digits
Carlos co-founded Basis to turn messy planning, reporting, and operational workflows into real-time software for finance teams. As CTO and Head of Product, he owned product strategy, roadmap, customer discovery, and systems design, while partnering with go-to-market across an 8-person product and engineering team.
Basis grew to 200+ B2B customers and reached $1M+ ARR within 12 months of launch. Carlos reduced onboarding to 5 minutes despite the complexity of connecting fragmented business data, unlocking both PLG adoption and sales-led growth.
He turned integrations into a strategic wedge across 100+ ERP, CRM, payroll, and business systems, and shaped the planning and analytics experience behind instant scenario modeling, dashboards, and workflow automation across millions of daily calculations. The company was acquired by Digits in 2024.



Head of Product & Engineering
Sep 2017 – Mar 2020 · New York, NY
Domio was creating a new category at the intersection of real estate and hospitality. Carlos scaled the product, engineering, and design organization to 30+ people across five teams, standing up the company's first PM and design functions, growing engineering across NYC and Toronto, and helping build a durable organization and culture.
As a member of the leadership team, he led product and engineering strategy for market expansion as Domio scaled into 10+ cities during a $100M+ growth phase. He led strategy across direct booking, reservations, and the booking experience, increasing direct bookings from 0% to more than 40% while improving unit economics through a simpler customer journey.
He also drove data, pricing, and operational platform initiatives that improved market selection, price testing, and property workflows as the business scaled.

AI Family Recipe Manager
2026 · Side Project
Simmer is a personal project born from a real need: preserving and rediscovering family recipes in a way that feels natural and thoughtful. It's an AI-powered recipe app that captures recipes from any source, organizes them intelligently, and can generate new recipes from scratch using an AI chef.
The project reflects Carlos's product instincts applied to a personal problem. Every interaction is designed to feel considered, from how recipes are imported to how the AI suggests variations.

Earlier Experience
Software Engineer → Software Engineer II
Jun 2014 – May 2016 · San Francisco & New York
Helped launch the first version of UberEATS and built core infrastructure across the Communications Platform, UberRUSH, and UberEATS. Developed real-time middleware for dispatch and logistics, led the Pricing Engine project for flexible multi-leg pricing, and built fault-tolerant messaging systems delivering notifications to millions of users. A technical foundation in high-scale, product-rich environments.
About
I've spent my career at the intersection of product strategy, technical systems, and design quality. I started as an engineer building high-scale infrastructure at Uber, then moved into leadership roles where I could shape not just what got built, but why and how it created leverage for the business.
Co-founding Basis taught me how to operate across every dimension of a product company: roadmap, architecture, customer discovery, hiring, GTM, and the hard decisions that come with building something from zero. Leading it to acquisition reinforced that great products come from strong judgment and end-to-end ownership, not just strong process.
I'm drawn to ambiguous, cross-functional, and systems-heavy environments where product leadership requires both strategic thinking and hands-on depth. I care about workflow simplification, intuitive product surfaces, and building things that compound rather than just ship, especially where product, engineering, and go-to-market all need to move in sync.
Outside of work, I mentor current Carnegie Mellon students on career development, and I stay close to the startup ecosystem through communities like Project Olympus and ODF.
Location
San Diego, CA (Remote)
Education
Carnegie Mellon University, B.S. ECE
Affiliations
ODF Alum · CMU Project Olympus · CMU Career Mentor