Alison Tarwater is a Artist + Product Manager + Food Nerd at Block. She possess expertise in product management, stakeholder management, product discovery, user experience, agile methodologies and 22 more skills. She is proficient in Arabic. Colleagues describe her as "Alison is an intensely focused can-do, will-do kind of person. She's very sharp, very able, and will stay on things until they're done - inasmuch as they can be done. She also has a feel for context, so she'll understand and drill down into the whole issue, not just the thing you've asked her to do. When I was managing Alison I knew I could trust her to follow instruction, understand context and execute. She'll come up with several additional , related recommendations too. Very smart." and "I worked closely with Alison while my portfolio of products was undergoing a major redesign and re-platforming. As the product/platform lead, Alison was able to clearly articulate our business needs and develop a strategic approach on how to best leverage the new platform capabilities. Most impressively, she quickly learned how to navigate our very large and complex organization to gain stakeholder buy-in for her approach across product, UX, architecture, and development, which resulted in the first-ever governance committee for the platform so we could deliver member-facing experiences more quickly and cost-effectively. She is hard-working, extremely bright, and excellent at "connecting dots" in the midst of ambiguity and chaos."