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Sarah supports more than 30,000 paid subscribers and more than 2 million free users at Elicit while maintaining a 94% CSAT score\. Her work includes defining escalation paths, creating support playbooks, evaluating AI\-powered workflows, and producing onboarding walkthroughs, video tutorials, tips, and guides that reduce support volume and increase adoption\. Previously, Sarah led quality assurance, usability, product support, and product\-management work at MeetEdgar\.com, Help Scout, Yellow Dog Software, and Planetary\. Her accomplishments include leading the first project to use calcium oxide for carbon dioxide removal, reducing a product backlog by 20% in one year, resolving more than 50 bugs before feature launches, and standardizing more than 20 recurring processes at Yellow Dog Software\. Sarah holds PMP and CUA credentials and advanced degrees in library and information science and software engineering\. ## Services - User Feedback - Customer Experience Analysis - Business Development - Customer Experience Consulting - Customer Journeys - Test Planning - Web Project Management - Wireframing - Looker - Program Management - Linear - Jira - Scrum - Customer Journey Mapping - Customer Engagement - Test Cases - Software Development - Customer Experience Management - Customer Satisfaction - Agile Methodologies ## Highlights - Owns Elicit’s customer\-support inbox for more than 30,000 paid subscribers and more than 2 million free users, with a 94% CSAT score\. - Defines Elicit’s support processes, playbooks, prioritization frameworks, escalation pathways, and product\-collaboration practices\. - Evaluates, implements, and maintains AI\-powered support workflows that prioritize self\-service for common customer questions\. - Produces Elicit onboarding walkthroughs, short\-form video tutorials, tips, guides, and knowledge\-base content that reduce support volume and increase product adoption\. - Establishes customer\-feedback and user\-research processes at Elicit to enhance the product and grow the user base\. - Provided product consulting, project management, customer support, social\-media management, and documentation services as an Elicit Customer Experience Consultant\. - Spearheaded the design and implementation of Elicit’s customer\-facing knowledge base as a consultant\. - Led a complete rewrite of MeetEdgar\.com’s user\-facing knowledge base with a team of three in six weeks, increasing utilization and reducing support requests\. - Defined quality\-assurance strategy, values, and procedures at MeetEdgar\.com\. - Conducted MeetEdgar\.com design reviews, manual testing, bug reporting, user\-feedback prioritization, live product demos, and user training\. - Delivered MeetEdgar\.com chat and email support with a 92% customer\-satisfaction rating\. - Reduced a MeetEdgar\.com product backlog by 20% within one year by overhauling product metrics with Pareto Analysis\. - Initiated a MeetEdgar\.com marketing\-site redesign based on Inherent Value Testing with long\-time customers and new leads\. - Served as MeetEdgar\.com’s sole UX Copywriter, developing all in\-app copy\. - Defined short\- and long\-term product\-development and product\-launch OKRs and prioritized roadmaps at Help Scout\. - Planned and executed user\-acceptance testing at Help Scout that resolved more than 50 bugs before feature launches\. - Developed internal and external technical documentation and delivered technical product support at Help Scout with a 91% customer\-satisfaction rating\. - Led product management for Yellow Dog Software’s core inventory product, including its client interface, integrations, and software architecture development\. - Managed Yellow Dog Software’s Quality Assurance Engineering team through performance oversight, coaching, hiring, and professional\-development guidance\. - Led Yellow Dog Software’s transition from waterfall practices to Agile processes, including standups, sprints, retrospectives, cross\-functional communication, and knowledge sharing\. - Consolidated Yellow Dog Software’s product wiki, development, project\-management, and collaboration practices into a single source of truth\. - Established standardized guidelines across more than 20 recurring processes at Yellow Dog Software and retrained employees company\-wide on communication and project\-management expectations\. - Planned and executed the world’s first project using calcium oxide for carbon dioxide removal at Planetary, proving seawater restoration through calcium\-based ocean alkalinity enhancement\. - Managed Planetary project stakeholders, budgets, carbon\-dioxide\-emissions tracking, business development, scheduling, SOP development, staffing, and 24/7 operations\. - Piloted T\-37 and T\-38 aircraft and simulators in the United States Air Force\. - Planned and executed more than 100 United States Air Force training missions\. - Delivered Air Force briefings on weather, missions, safety procedures, and emergency procedures, and wrote the monthly newsletter for the 80th Operations Support Squadron\. - Holds Project Management Professional \(PMP\) and Certified Usability Analyst \(CUA\) credentials\. ## Experience - **Customer Experience and AI Support Manager at Elicit** (2026\-02\-01–present) — Customer Support: Own the full customer support inbox\. • Respond to issues with accuracy, speed, and empathy across billing, bugs, product questions, and account access — for 30k\+ paid subscribers and 2\+ million free users and growing with at 94% CSAT score\. • Define and own escalation pathways and product collaboration\. • Support Strategy and Operations: Define how Elicit handles customer interactions\. • Establish support processes, playbooks, and prioritization frameworks that scale beyond yourself and set the quality bar for anyone who touches support in the future\. • Support Self\-Service and Automation: Evaluate, implement, and maintain AI\-powered support workflows that make self\-service the default path for common questions\. • Knowledge Base Management and Strategy: Produce scalable content that reduced support volume and increased adoption — onboarding walkthroughs, short\-form video tutorials, tips and guides\. • Prioritize ruthlessly based on what actually drives tickets\. • User - **Customer Experience Manager at Elicit** (2026\-02\-01–present) — Customer Support: Own the full customer support inbox\. • Respond to issues with accuracy, speed, and empathy across billing, bugs, product questions, and account access — for 30k\+ paid subscribers and growing with at 94% CSAT score\. • Define and own escalation pathways and product collaboration\. • Support Strategy and Operations: Define how Elicit handles customer interactions\. • Establish support processes, playbooks, and prioritization frameworks that scale beyond yourself and set the quality bar for anyone who touches support in the future\. • Support Self\-Service and Automation: Evaluate, implement, and maintain AI\-powered support workflows that make self\-service the default path for common questions\. • Knowledge Base Management and Strategy: Produce scalable content that reduces support volume and increases adoption — onboarding walkthroughs, short\-form video tutorials, tips and guides\. • Prioritize ruthlessly based on what actually drives tickets, not what seems interesting\. • Use - **Project Manager at Planetary** (2024\-10\-01–2026\-01\-01) — Successfully planned and executed the world's first ever project utilizing calcium oxide for Carbon Dioxide Removal, proving the concept of seawater restoration through calcium\-based ocean alkalinity enhancement\. • Project Management: Plan, manage, execute, and scale a carbon dioxide removal project utilizing ocean alkalinity enhancement\. • Stakeholder Management: Build relationships with community members and site partners to ensure project success\. • Manage relationships with equipment and chemical supply partners\. • Budgeting: Track project budget and carbon dioxide emissions to ensure a complete project life cycle analysis\. • Business Development: Develop new business opportunities to expand and scale Planetary’s carbon dioxide removal efforts\. • Scheduling: Schedule large scale equipment deliveries, maintenance operations, and chemical delivery coordination\. • Technical Writing: Develop SOPs for safe system operations and maximum system uptime\. • Personnel Management: Hire and m - **Director of Product at Yellow Dog Software** (2024\-03\-01–2024\-10\-01) — Product Management: Lead all product management functions for the core inventory software product, including the client interface, integrations, and software architecture development\. • Develop planning, execution, and release methodologies and guide standard software development practices\. • People Management: direct manager for the Quality Assurance Engineering team, providing performance oversight, coaching, hiring, and professional development guidance\. • Product Operations: Design and implement Agile practices, guiding transition from a waterfall environment\. • Establish standardized collaborative and cross\-functional communication pathways, implement Agile standup, sprint, and retrospective processes, and design knowledge management and sharing practices on a company\-wide basis\. • Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary facilitator between C\-level stakeholders, customers, third party partners, and individual contributors to ensure consistent communication and process transpare - **Customer Experience Consultant at Elicit** (2024\-03\-01–2026\-02\-01) — Product Consulting: Provide product consulting, project management, customer support, social media management, and documentation services to Elicit’s full\-time team\. • Documentation Management and Knowledge Development: Spearheading the design and implementation of Elicit’s customer facing knowledge base\. • User Research: Establishing customer feedback and user research processes and pathways\. • Customer Support: Leading technical support and customer satisfaction program development\. - **Senior Product Support Analyst at Help Scout** (2021\-04\-01–2024\-02\-01) — Product Management: Defined and planned the short term and long term development and product launch OKRs and prioritized product roadmaps\. • UX Research: Conducted live and asynchronous user research, analyzed data, and defined requirements to determine desired customer outcomes\. • Usability Testing: Planned and executed User Acceptance Testing to improve product quality, resulting in 50\+ bugs resolved prior to feature launches\. • Data Analysis: Applied data analysis techniques to bug triage, tracking, and management for increased bug resolution\. • Technical Writing: Developed technical documentation for knowledge bases for both internal and external use, improving the customer experience\. • Product Support: Provided technical product support to customers and internal team members, resulting in a 91% customer satisfaction rating\. - **Usability Program Manager & UX Copywriter at MeetEdgar\.com** (2019\-07\-01–2021\-03\-01) — Product Management: Planned, conducted, and reported on user research and testing initiatives to inform strategic product design and direction\. • Wrote acceptance criteria, designed manual tests, prioritized user feedback, and managed bug and story tracking and prioritization\. • Data Analysis: Overhauled product metrics utilizing Pareto Analysis resulting in a 20% reduction in backlog within 1 year\. • UX Research: Initiated a full redesign on the marketing website based on Inherent Value Testing with both long time customers and new leads for improved, researched based marketing of the product\. • UX Copywriting: Developed all in\-app copy as the sole UX Copywriter\. • Technical Writing: Improved customer satisfaction by designing, writing, and maintaining the user\-facing knowledge base\. • Customer Support: Provided chat and email support and troubleshooting for users with a 92% customer satisfaction rating\. - **Quality Assurance Lead at MeetEdgar\.com** (2014\-10\-01–2019\-07\-01) — Technical Writing: Spearheaded a complete rewrite of user facing knowledge base, managing a team of 3 and completing the project in 6 weeks, resulting in increased utilization and fewer requests for support\. • Software Quality Assurance: Defined the Quality Assurance strategy, values, and procedures\. • Product Management: writing acceptance criteria, design reviews, manual testing, bug reporting, and user feedback prioritization\. • UX Research: Conducted live product demos and user training, gathering feedback from participants\. • Customer Support: Provided chat and email support and troubleshooting for users with a 92% customer satisfaction rating\. - **Quality Assurance Lead at MeetEdgar\.com** (2014\-10\-01–2019\-07\-01) — Technical Writing: Spearheaded a complete rewrite of user facing knowledge base, managing a team of 3 and completing the project in 6 weeks, resulting in increased utilization and fewer requests for support\. • Software Quality Assurance: Defined the Quality Assurance strategy, values, and procedures\. • Product Management: writing acceptance criteria, design reviews, manual testing, bug reporting, and user feedback prioritization\. • UX Research: Conducted live product demos and user training, gathering feedback from participants\. • Customer Support: Provided chat and email support and troubleshooting for users with a 92% customer satisfaction rating\. - **Pilot at United States Air Force** (2006\-01\-01–2008\-06\-01) — Piloted T\-37 and T\-38 aircraft and simulators, including instrument\-only, cross country, formation, low\-level, and solo ights\. • Completed rigorous academic and practical tests, check rides, and evaluations, demonstrating safe and effective decision making, in accordance with FAA and Air Force regulations\. • Delivered briefings and presentations on weather, training missions, safety procedures, and emergency procedures\. • Planned and executed more than 100 training missions\. • Wrote monthly newsletter for the 80th Operations Support Squadron\. ## Education - Master of Science \- MS, Software Engineering — Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics - Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Human Computer Interaction and User Experience — Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics - Master of Science \(M\.S\.\), Library and Information Science — Drexel University - Bachelor of Science \(B\.S\.\), Mechanical Engineering \- Aerospace Option — The George Washington University \- School of Engineering & Applied Science ## FAQ ### What does Sarah do at Elicit? Sarah is a Customer Experience and AI Support Manager and Customer Experience Manager at Elicit\. She owns customer support, support strategy and operations, AI\-enabled self\-service, knowledge\-base strategy, and customer feedback and user\-research processes\. ### What customer\-support results has Sarah delivered at Elicit? Sarah owns Elicit’s full customer\-support inbox, handling billing, bugs, product questions, and account\-access issues with accuracy, speed, and empathy\. She supports more than 30,000 paid subscribers and more than 2 million free users, with a 94% CSAT score\. ### How does Sarah approach support strategy and operations at Elicit? Sarah defines Elicit’s customer\-interaction processes, support playbooks, prioritization frameworks, escalation pathways, and product\-collaboration practices\. Her work is intended to establish a quality bar and systems that can scale beyond one person\. ### What is Sarah’s work in support automation and documentation at Elicit? Sarah evaluates, implements, and maintains AI\-powered support workflows that make self\-service the default path for common questions\. She also creates onboarding walkthroughs, short\-form video tutorials, tips, guides, and other knowledge\-base content, prioritizing work based on the issues that drive tickets and adoption\. ### How does Sarah use customer feedback and user research at Elicit? Sarah establishes customer\-feedback and user\-research processes and pathways to improve Elicit’s product and grow its user base\. ### What did Sarah do as a Customer Experience Consultant at Elicit? As a Customer Experience Consultant at Elicit, Sarah provided product consulting, project management, customer support, social\-media management, and documentation services to the full\-time team\. She spearheaded the design and implementation of Elicit’s customer\-facing knowledge base, established feedback and research pathways, and led technical\-support and customer\-satisfaction program development\. ### What did Sarah accomplish in documentation at MeetEdgar\.com? At MeetEdgar\.com, Sarah led a complete rewrite of the user\-facing knowledge base\. She managed a team of three and completed the project in six weeks, increasing utilization and reducing support requests\. ### What did Sarah do as Quality Assurance Lead at MeetEdgar\.com? As Quality Assurance Lead at MeetEdgar\.com, Sarah defined QA strategy, values, and procedures\. Her product work included writing acceptance criteria, conducting design reviews and manual testing, reporting bugs, prioritizing user feedback, conducting live demos and user training, and gathering participant feedback\. She also provided chat and email troubleshooting with a 92% customer\-satisfaction rating\. ### What did Sarah accomplish as Usability Program Manager and UX Copywriter at MeetEdgar\.com? As Usability Program Manager and UX Copywriter at MeetEdgar\.com, Sarah planned, conducted, and reported user research and testing wrote acceptance criteria designed manual tests managed bug and story tracking and prioritized user feedback\. She overhauled product metrics using Pareto Analysis, reducing the backlog by 20% within one year\. She also initiated a marketing\-site redesign using Inherent Value Testing with long\-time customers and new leads, wrote all in\-app copy as the sole UX Copywriter, maintained the user\-facing knowledge base, and provided customer support with a 92% CSAT rating\. ### What did Sarah do as Senior Product Support Analyst at Help Scout? At Help Scout, Sarah defined and planned short\- and long\-term product\-development and product\-launch OKRs and prioritized product roadmaps\. She conducted live and asynchronous user research, analyzed data, defined requirements around desired customer outcomes, planned and executed user\-acceptance testing, and helped resolve more than 50 bugs before feature launches\. She also applied data analysis to bug triage and tracking, developed internal and external technical documentation, and delivered technical support with a 91% customer\-satisfaction rating\. ### What was Sarah’s product leadership role at Yellow Dog Software? As Director of Product at Yellow Dog Software, Sarah led product\-management functions for the core inventory software product, including the client interface, integrations, and software architecture development\. She developed planning, execution, and release methodologies and guided standard software\-development practices\. ### How did Sarah lead people and operations at Yellow Dog Software? Sarah directly managed Yellow Dog Software’s Quality Assurance Engineering team, including performance oversight, coaching, hiring, and professional\-development guidance\. She designed and implemented Agile practices during a transition from waterfall, established standups, sprints, retrospectives, cross\-functional communication pathways, and company\-wide knowledge\-sharing practices\. ### What modernization work did Sarah lead at Yellow Dog Software? Sarah consolidated and migrated Yellow Dog Software’s internal product wiki, software\-development practices, project\-management practices, and collaboration practices from disparate systems into a single source of truth\. She retrained employees company\-wide, established standardized guidelines across more than 20 recurring processes where none had existed, and contributed to clearer cross\-functional communication, higher productivity and efficiency, and improved company morale\. ### What did Sarah accomplish at Planetary? At Planetary, Sarah successfully planned and executed the world’s first project using calcium oxide for carbon dioxide removal\. The project proved the concept of seawater restoration through calcium\-based ocean alkalinity enhancement\. ### What were Sarah’s responsibilities as Project Manager at Planetary? As Project Manager at Planetary, Sarah planned, managed, executed, and scaled an ocean\-alkalinity\-enhancement carbon\-dioxide\-removal project\. She managed community, site, equipment, and chemical\-supply relationships tracked the project budget and carbon dioxide emissions for life\-cycle analysis developed business opportunities coordinated equipment, maintenance, and chemical deliveries wrote safe\-operations and uptime SOPs hired and managed staff and oversaw 24/7 site operations, safety, and system efficiency\. ### What was Sarah’s experience in the United States Air Force? Sarah served as a pilot in the United States Air Force, flying T\-37 and T\-38 aircraft and simulators in instrument\-only, cross\-country, formation, low\-level, and solo flights\. She completed rigorous academic and practical tests, check rides, and evaluations under FAA and Air Force regulations delivered weather, mission, safety, and emergency\-procedure briefings planned and executed more than 100 training missions and wrote the monthly newsletter for the 80th Operations Support Squadron\. ### What education does Sarah have? Sarah holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Drexel University a Master of Science in Software Engineering and a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Human Computer Interaction and User Experience from Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Option, from The George Washington University School of Engineering & Applied Science\. ### What certifications does Sarah hold? Sarah’s listed professional credentials are Project Management Professional \(PMP\) and Certified Usability Analyst \(CUA\)\. ### What professional skills does Sarah bring to her work? Sarah’s skills include user feedback, customer experience analysis, customer experience consulting and management, customer journeys and journey mapping, customer engagement and satisfaction, business development, program and web project management, test planning and test cases, wireframing, Looker, Linear, Jira, Scrum, Agile methodologies, and software development\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/sarah\-van\-pelt