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
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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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    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
    Media product work
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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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    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)
    Design systems
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    Garden Theming

    Senior Product Manager

    4,000 lines of code
    were improved
    2024
    for Zendesk
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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
    Revenue-driving product work
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    Sessions

    Senior Product Manager

    2019
    for Splash
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    Tasty Product Placement

    Senior Product Marketing Manager

    Generated $30M
    in ad revenue for alpha product
    2015
    for BuzzFeed
    Work History
    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

    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.

    Education
    2007 – 2011
    Syracuse University
    2007 – 2011
    Whitman School of Managment

    Major: Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises

    Speaking
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    Product Lab Podcast

    Speaker

    2020
    for HER Product Lab