Abbe Cohen is a product management leader who specializes in large scale projects on core products, systems and UI modernization. She has worked at Zendesk, Adobe, and Frame.io and is now the co-founder of Third Person.

Abbe Cohen
Abbe Cohen
Denver, CO
Abbe Cohen
Abbe Cohen
Denver, CO
Scaled product work
Media product work
Design systems
Revenue-driving product work
Work History
Education
Speaking
2007 – 2011
Syracuse University
2007 – 2011
Whitman School of Managment

Major: Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises

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Product Lab Podcast

Speaker

2020
for HER Product Lab
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Dark Mode

Principal Product Manager

Fastest adopted product at Zendesk
60K+ agents using dark mode
2025
for Zendesk
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Anchor Based Commenting

Senior Project Manager

NAB 2024
Product of the year
2022
for Frame.io (Adobe)
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Garden Theming

Senior Product Manager

4,000 lines of code
were improved
2024
for Zendesk
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Sessions

Senior Product Manager

2019
for Splash
2024 – Current
Third Person
2024 – Current
Co-founder / CEO

Co-founder of Third Person - Third Person enables you to craft a curated narrative of your past work for a specific opportunity.

2022 – Current
Zendesk
2022 – Current
Principal Product Manager

- Oversee the design system
- Drove the new global navigation to consolidate all product areas and acqusitions of Zendesk
- Spearheaded the UI Modernization initiative resulting in a reorg and focus towards frontend architecture
- Designed UX for new AI pricing model

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Frame.io V4

Senior Product Manager

$1.2B acqusition
By Adobe
2022
for Frame.io (Adobe Company)
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Major Version 9 Migration

Senior Product Manager

22+ teams globally
collaborated with Garden
2024
for Zendesk
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Asset Collaboration

Senior Product Manager

2021
for Frame.io
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Web Video Player

Senior Product Manager

TTF
200ms to 20ms
2022
for Frame.io (Adobe)
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Vapor Design System

Product Manager

Built design system
from the ground up
2022
for Frame.io (Adobe Company)
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Combobox

Senior Product Manager

Solves 18 Blocker
a11y bugs for Support
2023
for Zendesk
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Tasty Product Placement

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Generated $30M
in ad revenue for alpha product
2015
for BuzzFeed
Senior Product Manager

Product Lead for Zendesk's Design System & UI Platform.
Manage Product Managers on Admin Center.

2021 – 2022
Adobe
2021 – 2022
Senior Product Manager

Core product lead of video (and other asset) playback and collaboration tooling (focused on Commenting), and app Navigation for Frame.io (acquired by Adobe).

2020 – 2021
Frame.io
2020 – 2021
Senior Product Manager

Led the two Core product development teams with a focus on Upload assets (primarily video), organize assets, playback and collaborate with team through commenting tools; Navigation UX. Primarily focused on shaping & designing the new version of Frame.io.

Build and led a guild to focus on FluidUI which is Frame.io's focus on execution & design for web development

Member of DE&I core team

2018 – 2020
Splash
2018 – 2020
Senior Product Manager

Shipped new products to drive business for larger scaled events like Sessions and refactored contact layer. Managed all mobile products, and led a redesign of the design CMS.

Product Manager

Managed all mobile product and shipped Sessions

2015 – 2018
BuzzFeed
2015 – 2018
Sr. Manager, Ad Solutions

Created the new simplified go-to-market custom video product, pricing and workflow, and led adoption across the entire creative and business organization of 600+ people. Scaled to 6 international markets.

Chief of Staff

Brought Tasty business to profit. Built a $30MM foundational revenue stream. Drove $200M in ad sales revenue across all BuzzFeed lifestyle brands within 2.5 years.

Built US and international video custom content advertising products.

Was part of direct team that merged BuzzFeed Motion Pictures team with BuzzFeed.