Arya Sachar

Data 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

Education

Master of Science, Data Science · Indiana University, BloomingtonGraduated 2026
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems · San Jose State UniversityGraduated 2019