Resume
Download PDFData Scientist turned Product Manager, 7+ years at Yahoo shipping products, owning product strategy, defining KPIs, running fast-paced experimentation cycles, and translating data into key product decisions. Experienced leading cross-functional initiatives across Design, Engineering, Product, Legal, and Analytics to ship products at scale.
Experience
Product Data Scientist II, Product Strategy · Yahoo
June 2024 — Present- Owned the end-to-end product lifecycle for Yahoo Scout (AI/LLM-powered), running structured product discovery, translating user feedback and behavioral signals into prioritized backlogs, and shipping features that increased consumer engagement by 12% across a diverse user base.
- Built and shipped AI-powered tools using Claude Code: an experiment review agent that cut review cycle time by roughly 20%, agentic dashboards saving 5+ hours of manual reporting weekly, and API workflows that uncovered three key model-tagging errors in production data.
- Designed and ran A/B experiments for the Generative AI module, translating ambiguous customer problems into clear hypotheses, increasing follow-on query engagement by 3%, and using results to drive roadmap decisions.
- Monitored consumer funnels and user feedback signals across the Yahoo ecosystem, triaging quality issues with engineering, prioritizing fixes, and improving Search funnel conversion by 2%.
- Delivered an AI-powered Success Metrics Builder using Claude, independently prototyped, validated with real users, and deployed into the product workflow automating the synthesis of stakeholder success criteria.
Product Data Scientist I · Yahoo
March 2022 — June 2024- Surfaced a 19% search failure rate through deep analysis of queries and user sessions — segmenting failures into actionable categories and influencing leadership to fund dedicated product squads to execute targeted solutions.
- Tracked industry trends and mapped the competitive landscape of Generative AI products (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) to identify user migration patterns and sharpen product differentiation strategy.
- Spearheaded the Yahoo Search redesign across US and International markets, driving a 4% increase in search box engagement through analytics and experimentation strategy across the Web and Mobile platforms.
Content Analyst and Knowledge Engineer · Yahoo
August 2019 — March 2022- Improved product personalization for 200M+ Yahoo Mail users by extracting insights from large-scale data and shipping data-driven marketing features.
- Partnered with Engineering to automate workflows and reduce latency across Yahoo Mail data pipelines.
Projects and Recognition
Independently built and shipped an AI-powered tool for Product Managers — generating structured A/B experiment plans including metrics, guardrails, and success criteria.
Above and Beyond Product Impact — Yahoo
Recognized for leading a cross-functional search quality project — presenting findings to VP-level leadership, forming dedicated product squads, and developing an analysis framework adopted across multiple Yahoo Search projects.
Product Management
- Product Vision & Strategy
- Product Roadmap Development
- Experimentation design — A/B & MAB
- Product Requirements (PRDs)
- User Feedback Synthesis
- UX & User Research
- Agile & Scrum
Data Science & AI
- KPI and North Star Metric Development
- Product Analytics
- Hands-on AI tooling and Building Agents — Claude (Code, Design, Cowork)
- User Journey and Funnel Analysis
- SQL
- Machine Learning
- Tableau