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Ashley Furney

Explore wildly.Question the obvious.Build what matters.

I connect customer needs to product strategy, simplify complex enterprise experiences, and build systems that improve quality and efficiency. Beyond product management, I advise on branding, mission, vision, values, and early product discovery.

Currently
Senior product manager, Poppulo Digital Signage Cloud
Focus
Enterprise SaaS · Digital signage · Employee experience
Curious about
How AI is changing the way product managers work.

What I do

Outcomes

Results from my product work, and what it took to get there.

6
Products managed
100+
Features shipped
85K+
Managed devices
5K+
Users
$40M+
ARR
3
Brands founded

+233%

Scaled support for content targeting from 6K to 20K devices

Larger enterprise networks can now target content across their whole fleet, which also supported $679K+ in ARR retention.

99.9%

Device status accuracy, increased from 86%

An end-to-end workflow to spot issues early and troubleshoot screens remotely, adopted by 87% of active monitoring users.

94% faster

Estimated reduction in time to get content onto a screen, from 8 minutes to 30 seconds

One prompt creates, targets, schedules, deploys and analyzes content. Smart A/B testing then updates content or schedules on its own.

Animated concept showing a fragmented publishing workflow reimagined as a single prompt-driven flow

650+

Spay and neuter surgeries in 2025

Spay and neuter surgeries funded through fundraising and consumer brand sales.

Also exploring

  • Product discovery and advising

    Elite wheelchair product discovery

    Advising on early product discovery for an Elite wheelchair project.

    Involvement described as discovery and advising only.

  • Branding, mission, vision & values

    Brand direction

    Brand systems I created or updated: Perrísimo, Cold Brew, Amigos de Animales and Bueno Bites.

How I approach product

  1. Understand the actual problem.

    Start with what users are trying to get done and the pain points, not the feature they asked for.

  2. Connect evidence to priorities and strategy.

    Let what we learn decide what comes first, and say plainly why.

  3. Simplify complexity through clear decisions.

    Enterprise products get complicated. Clear choices about what not to build keep them usable.

  4. Connect product direction with purpose and positioning.

    A product should make sense alongside what the organization says it stands for.

  5. Evaluate outcomes and adjust.

    Check whether a change actually helped, and be willing to change course.

About

Portrait of Ashley Furney

I’m a senior product manager at Poppulo, with 6+ years leading complex, scaled enterprise SaaS products from discovery through launch and adoption. I own product vision, strategy, and roadmap across a multi-product platform spanning device management, administration, content delivery, and reporting.

More about me

Let’s talk product.

Happy to compare notes on enterprise products, discovery, and making complicated things simpler.