Suhel Mangera

About

• I’m a product leader and builder with 18+ years of experience turning technical capability into practical, valuable products. I care most about the overlap between real customer needs, strong business outcomes, and what technology makes possible.
• I do my best work in 0→1, ambiguous, high-upside spaces. I’m deeply curious, love understanding how systems and people fit together, and I’m energised by hard problems that need strategy, execution, and experimentation.
• I still love leading product teams, but these days I’m increasingly hands-on as a builder too. Building things myself helps me move faster, learn faster, and sharpen the way I lead teams, shape strategy, and turn ideas into something real.

Current focus

• Envato - Building experiences for creative professionals to do more, faster, and to a higher quality.
• Building JobAlchemist to support stronger job-search decisions and outcomes.
• Tokenmaxxing & building personal apps like SuhelOS, Codex prototype scaffolding, Parallax to escape the LLM echo chamber, Zen tile swap to chill without ads, and much more.
• Helping my daughter build her app to manage and balance time across school, activities, social and personal time.
• Co-host Meetups in Wellington: ProductTank Wellington, Wellington AI Engineering & Lenny's Meetup.

Selected projects

• JobAlchemist

  An AI workflow tool for job seekers focused on decision quality, CV improvement, and job applications.

• Parallax

  Escape the LLM echo chamber. Open-source starter for assembling configurable groups of LLMs, running your prompts, comparing the results, and synthesizing a stronger final answer.

• Codex prototype skills

  Tokenmaxxing for builders: Codex gives you plenty of tokens, so use all of them to explore, expand, and sharpen ideas instead of leaving capability on the table. A starter for building ideas quickly in the Codex App, iterating fast, and turning rough concepts into working prototypes with less friction.

• Job'D!

  Cards Against Humanity inspired fun game for job seekers. It generates absurd job titles and made-up candidates to screen Yah or Nah, bringing humour to stressful job searching.

• Zen tile swap

  A fun game for my wife who likes little games but hates ads. Made with love so she gets max enjoyment :).

• AI Knowledge sidekick

  Curating and querying knowledge from Readwise Reader.

Career

• Principal Product Manager - AI

  Envato · Nov 2025 to Present

• Co-founder

  JobAlchemist · Sep 2025 to Present

• Principal Product Manager - AI & Search

  LawVu · Jun 2024 to Oct 2025

• Principal Product Manager

  MetService · Nov 2023 to May 2024

• Lead PM Core Protocol

  Futureverse | Altered State Machine (ASM) · Aug 2022 to Sep 2023

• Senior Group Product Manager

  Xero · Oct 2021 to Mar 2022

• GM Product - Manage Sales

  Xero · Apr 2022 to Jul 2022

And more...