Bruno Santos Amaro

Staff Product Manager · Lisbon, Portugal

Bruno
Santos Amaro

Product person, futurist, and a romantic believer in the power of technology for bringing people closer.

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Bruno Santos Amaro, smiling, hand on his beard

01 — About me

Hello! My name is Bruno.

I was born in the 80s, and I live close to Lisbon, Portugal.

I am a product person, a futurist, and a romantic believer in the power of technology for bringing people closer and radically improving our lives.

I am a proud generalist, which I use as a major strength for product management as it allows me to have a very comprehensive view of the entire business and truly understand the impact of every decision made at product level.

I am a process-setting and automation enthusiast, as a means for speeding up repetitive and lower-value tasks, so I can free up time for things that bring more to the table and feel more rewarding to me.

Today I'm a Staff Product Manager at Dashlane, the password manager and credential security platform that keeps millions of people and thousands of businesses safe online.

My automation streak has found its best partner yet in AI. I use it every day, mainly Claude, and I've started exploring agentic AI: setting it up to carry work from start to finish, not just answer questions.

Sports keep me rooted. Music keeps me happy.
Proud father of Alberto, my key to unlock immortality.

Anti-bullshit. Pro-love.

Ph.D. studies, Process Systems Engineering
Imperial College London

2005 – 2009

Degree, Chemical Engineering
FCT Universidade de Coimbra

2000 – 2005

Updated on 27 October 2026

Bruno presenting to a full room of founders at Tec Labs
Tec Labs, Lisbon

02 — Experience

Relevant experience

  1. Dashlane

    Staff Product Manager · 2025 – now

    Dashlane protects people and businesses from credential-based threats, starting with one of the best-known password managers out there. I work across both consumer and business products, close to customers, data and engineering, and I like putting working prototypes in front of people early so we learn before we build.

  2. Talkdesk

    Product Manager → Senior → Principal Product Manager · 2021 – 2025

    In June 2021, I accepted the challenge of joining this awesome company, with Portuguese origins and a worldwide family, at one of the most exciting periods of a startup's life, when it had just passed a $10 billion valuation. Working with a wide range of people from very diverse backgrounds and roles was a real boost to my growth as a product person.

  3. Vawlt Technologies

    Co-founder, CEO 2017 – 2020 · Product Advisor 2021 – now

    For 3.5 years I led a B2B SaaS product team at an early-stage startup. Starting with a prototype and almost no resources, we ran experiments and discovered that although single users were willing to test and use our secure cloud storage, they were not willing to pay for it, so we quickly pivoted to B2B. We ran a successful first fundraiser and went back to user and customer discovery, which led to a new product where the key challenge was turning a very complex technology into an intuitive, simple product.

    In 9 months we shipped a web dashboard for admins, 3 desktop apps (Windows, macOS, Linux), and the UX/UI for the iOS app. Under my supervision we generated a significant number of qualified leads, which were beginning to convert when I left my full-time position, just after completing a second successful fundraiser.

  4. Glance & Grabble

    Side projects · 2013 – 2014

    I conceptualised and led the building of a social meeting app for people with similar daily commutes, a finalist in a Vodafone apps competition. Without a sustainable business model, we decided not to build a business around it. I also co-led the prototype for an app for local, short-term lending of small items, which didn't launch due to lack of user enthusiasm in early experiments.

  5. Tec Labs, Territórios Criativos, AUDAX-IUL, SPI Ventures

    Coordinator, mentor, trainer, consultant · 2009 – 2019

    I spent 12 years working with hundreds of startups from different sectors, helping them define, build, and market their solutions as a consultant, mentor, tech-transfer agent, and incubation manager.

03 — Projects

Projects