About

Marc Anthony Rosa

Hi, I'm Marc ๐Ÿ‘‹

I'm a product builder in Houston, formerly Seattle. My wife Elle runs an interior design studio; we have a four-year-old and a newborn.

I've spent fifteen years building SaaS products, most recently as Head of Product at Thread.

In three years, we took a chat ticketing tool and turned it into the category-leading AI service desk for MSPs โ€” growing revenue 10x, raising a Series A, and scaling a 25-person product and engineering organization.

Before that, I led data and NLP products at Deep 6 AI (acquired by Tempus), and built messaging products at Zipwhip through its acquisition by Twilio.

I take early features and turn them into platforms - software that scales, has a point of view, and earns a place in people's daily stack. That means staying close to the craft: coding, customer discovery, prototyping, getting the small details right.

Sugo AI

I run Sugo AI, a product studio for companies shipping AI into regulated and legacy industries. Our partnerships combine fractional product leadership with hands-on product development.

Sugo is Italian for sauce. Every Sunday, my sons and I make it together - starting from the latest recipe and pushing it a little further each time. My favorite software is built the same way: iterative, thoughtful, and constantly improving.

The pixelated tomato logo is a small callback to that.

Work

Sugo AI
Sugo AI Founder
2026 โ€“
Thread
Thread Head of Product
2023 โ€“ 2025
Tempus AI
Tempus AI (acq. Deep 6 AI) Director / Senior Product Manager
2021 โ€“ 2023
Twilio
Twilio (acq. Zipwhip) Product Manager
2019 โ€“ 2021
Getty Images
Getty Images Product Manager
2016 โ€“ 2019
Buffer
Buffer Product Manager
2015 โ€“ 2016
Tribune Media
Tribune Media (acq. Dose) Product Manager / Associate PM
2013 โ€“ 2015

Speaking


How I work

Software should be opinionated. Build products with a clear point of view on how they should be used. Tools that try to do everything end up doing nothing well.

Mandatory spicy conversations. The hard, honest takes - the ones people hesitate to say out loud - are how a product actually gets sharper. I push for them, and expect them back.

Personality and joy, not just software. Products should feel like a great coworker, not just a tool. Tone, taste, and a little joyare what earn software a place in someone's daily stack.