Noodle Labs Noodle Labs

Extend your leadership team
when and where it matters.

At critical moments in your startup's trajectory, we step in to unblock execution when getting things done matters most.

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About Noodle Labs

We're operators, not advisors. With 20+ years building and scaling startups, we embed with teams at that tricky stage—too early for a VP hire, too critical to ignore. We handle the chaos and complexity that most employees can't, bringing expertise across both tech and operations.

Jennifer Dennard

Strategic Operations

Jennifer Dennard
  • Founder, operations exec, and Chief of Staff with deep experience navigating early-stage chaos
  • 12 years connecting people systems with business execution to drive results
  • Track record partnering with founders to build high-performing organizations

Jean Hsu

Engineering Leadership

Jean Hsu
  • 15 years scaling early-stage engineering and product teams
  • Proven record growing first-time EMs/TLs into confident, effective leaders
  • AI-era leadership: helping teams adopt AI productively with the right guardrails

When we can help

We work with founders and leadership teams at startups who know their teams could be moving faster—connecting strategy with execution across engineering, product, GTM, and people operations. Common situations we're brought into:

  • Teams are struggling to execute despite clear direction
  • Leadership departures or transitions have destabilized teams
  • Expertise gap in the leadership team requires hands-on support
  • Emerging or newly hired leaders need coaching and help executing
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