About

Dave Fleischman is a seasoned executive with over 27 years of relevant experience in product management, marketing, technology, and user experience. He is currently serving as the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Compass, where he is responsible for the core platform and customer-facing product management teams. Dave is a rare executive who possesses excellent team leadership skills and can take on any role required. He is comfortable working with all levels of an organization and has a proven record as a unifying change agent. At Compass, Dave has incepted and driven the first end-to-end real estate platform in the world that delivers more than $6 billion in revenue. Within the first six months, he drove the delivery of a new organizational structure bringing engineering, design, and product together based on customer-backward workflows. He has substantially improved platform engagement of active agents by 50% within one year. Dave has also hired and grown the product team from 100 to 250, managing up to 150 on teams ranging from core search to AI, including myriad new customer-facing experiences, and managed several VPs and senior directors. Dave has created the core "rhythm of the business" for Compass, moving from a sporadic planning process to a predictable, team-empowering process, and wrote the first thesis in Compass history. He has led companywide strategic planning for a 1,500-person product and engineering organization based on both customer need and business need, and drove CSAT up by 50% in one year. His teams have delivered several strategic projects that are planned to drive more than $500 million in incremental revenue over three years. Dave has improved SEO traffic by 30% within six months of investment in the program. Prior to Compass, Dave served as the Chief Growth Officer and Chief Product Officer at Blue Nile, where he was responsible for unifying and leading engineering, performance marketing, product management, and user experience. He reshaped the planning and delivery of end-to-end customer experiences from offsite marketing, through post-purchase communications, delivering high growth and exceptional business results. Dave built the first product management team in Blue Nile's history and established a data-driven and scientific methodology, including major contributions to marketing. He has also integrated and managed multiple strategic vendors to renew Blue Nile. Dave's tech stack includes product management, AI, search, ML, senior software engineer, test, and mobile. He has a deep understanding of customer-centric techniques and team dynamics, which he applies to systematically