# Ami Vora

Leadership · Chief Product Officer at Anthropic · joined 2025

Started at Microsoft building developer tools, launched Facebook's developer platform and ran product and design at WhatsApp.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ami-vora

**At Anthropic:**
- 2026 – present: Chief Product Officer
- Dec 2025: Head of Product
Sources: [1](https://observer.com/2026/04/anthropic-top-executives-after-labs-launch/)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- 2022–2024: Faire, CPO
- 2018–2022: WhatsApp, VP, Product and Design
- 2013: Instagram, Director, Instagram
- 2007–2022: Facebook, Temp → VP Product
- 2003–2006: Microsoft, PM, Visual Studio & .NET
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvora)

**Education:**
- BA in Computer Science, Harvard University
Sources: [1](https://investors.datadoghq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/datadog-appoints-ami-vora-its-board-directors)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Helped scale Instagram while at Meta. [1](https://investors.datadoghq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/datadog-appoints-ami-vora-its-board-directors)
- Sits on Datadog's board. [1](https://investors.datadoghq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/datadog-appoints-ami-vora-its-board-directors)
- Started at Facebook as a temp and rose to VP of Product over about 15 years at the company. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvora)
- Was roughly employee 150 at Facebook, 33 at Instagram and 275 at WhatsApp. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvora)
- Built Instagram's first ads system and, as head of product for Facebook Ads, doubled its revenue to $55 billion a year. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvora)
- Writes The Hard Parts of Growth, a free newsletter she set out to make "the career guide I never had." [1](https://amivora.substack.com/p/the-full-catalogue)
- Opened Code with Claude 2026, reporting that Claude API volume was up nearly 17x year over year. [1](https://www.daniellevantini.com/blog/anthropic-code-with-claude-2026-opening-keynote)
- Said: "Everyone is more tired than we think. Nobody wants to learn a new thing." [1](https://creatoreconomy.so/p/7-counterintuitive-lessons-from-whatsapp-head-of-product-ami-vora)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Code with Claude 2026 opening keynote](https://www.daniellevantini.com/blog/anthropic-code-with-claude-2026-opening-keynote)
- [Lenny and Friends Summit panel with Mike Krieger on why Claude can't be your PM yet (2026)](https://dealroom.co/news/talk-sEXdyK6woKU-why-claude-cant-be-your-pm-yet-the-anthropic-view/)
- [Leah Tharin podcast on unconventional lessons (2024)](https://www.leahtharin.com/p/74-ami-vora-unconventional-lessons)

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Everyone at Anthropic: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people