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Generalist Product Management

Growth Product Management

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Kurt Yang

Senior Product Manager

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HubSpot

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Provide product management consulting service to SydWeb3's AI & Web3 education product development.

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SydWeb3 is a Sydney Based technology venture studio for AI & Web3 Entrepreneurs. It also aims to support the AI& Web3 community in Australia.

Provide product management consulting service to Warp Driven AI's eCommerce AI shopping assistant chatbot product development powered by OpenAI technology.

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Warp Driven Technology is dedicated to provide eCommerce providers globally with the best eCommerce AI, big data and software development and integration solutions. Some of their key product service offerings are visual AI technology, NLP AI technology, personalisation recommendation system and AIGC data analytics.

Provide product management consulting service to Workreel's AI chatbot product development and other AI development initiatives.

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WorkReel is a video based recruitment app where employers and talents connect to match for FT, PT and temp(gig) hiring. WorkReel replaces CVs and cover letters with video as well as photo content.

Provide product management service during client's digital transformation, application modernisation, and greenfield projects. 

Coach client junior product managers in a daily pairing style on lean product management and how to work well in a balanced product team, so they can lead their product team with confidence once our engagement is ended.

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VMware Tanzu Labs was formally known as Pivotal Labs, one of the best software development consultancies globally for more than 30 years. We support enterprise clients on their modern software application journey and empower their digital transformation.

Set up and lead ‘Product Trio’ product discovery practice within my squad for the new product development area our squad is responsible for. 

Work with senior leadership team to formulate product strategies around the product development area our squad is responsible for.

Lead product squad to complete development for key outstanding product backlog items. 

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Different is an innovative Australian proptech scaleup that provide end-to-end property management service to property owners (B2C) and real estate agencies (B2B2C). The co-founder Mina is a well-known product leader in Silicon Valley and the 1st head of product of Uber since its inception.

Led product squad to develop the MVP version of the first Cashrewards Personlisation initiative.

Set up and led ‘Product Trio’ product discovery practice within my squad. 

Heavily involved in formulating and communicating product strategies around personalization and gamification among key stakeholders.

Set up and drove new growth squad goals, strategies and experimentation practice.

Mentor junior product managers and technical business analysts on product practices. Established and drove the ‘Product Talk’ initiative with product and design teams to drive more adoptions on human-centered product design approach.

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Cashrewards is the largest cashback rewards platform in Australia, with 1.8m+ shoppers on its B2C side and 1800+ merchants on its B2B side.

Heavily involved in initial and ongoing product feature design and agile development, created customer journey and analyzed customer feedback then prioritized development effort accordingly.

Regular review and continuously improve existing product functionalities with customer feedback and survey.

Successfully drove the vendor selection and adoption of product analytics platform.

Worked closely with product marketing team to plan and execute go-to-market strategies and activities for new project and product launch.

Managed cross-functional teams in developing new products and launching project initiatives. 

Acted as product lead on major replatforming project to facilitate all technology changes’ impact to our organization and clients.

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Sentral is the largest school management SaaS software provider in Australia, with more than 3000 K12 schools national wide.

Conducted market research and analysis on domestic and international robotic STEM learning products and programs.

Responsible for product development of new Actura Robotics products (e.g. product design, platform UX design and pricing).

Developed and executed go-to-market strategies for Actura Robotics products.

Developed and maintained eCommerce platform for Actura Robotics products.

Conducted customer research and established customer feedback loop within domestic school network.

Developed and managed Actura robotic online programming platform and other software.

Managed pricing and supply chain with upstream suppliers.

Conducted face-to-face workshops and PD to channel partners and educators

Supported the sales team and collaborated in pre-sales activities.

Strategic management of major project initiatives with key international partners

Overseed OneWorld Robotic Competition go-to-market and event activities globally

Strategic planning of FlipRobot global go-to-market activities in new markets

Strategic review of FlipRobot product performance and life cycle

Product sales marketing campaign planning

Managed all FlipRobot ANZ product management team work activities and pipelines

Product Management team staff recruitment, onboarding, training, performance review

Responsible for the end-to-end product ownership and strategy development for all AIEI products. AIEI is a domestic start-up that provides online professional education and certification training courses.

Proactively conducted customer research and created customer personas/user stories. Managed an internationally based cross-functional team (a web developer, a UX designer, a SEO specialist and a content manager). Managed and negotiating 3rd party service vendors’ contracts and relationships.

Created product strategies and roadmap, and leaded the cross functional team to deliver. Created business requirement specifications and low fidelity prototype mock-ups. Project managed team members’ work progress using virtue management board in Trello.

Responsible for the end-to-end product ownership and delivery of two new major Digital Wallet products, i.e. Android Pay and Apple Pay.  Actively involved in the research and planning phase for other Digital Wallet products. Responsible for analyzing and exploring opportunities to commercialize and productize existing and new Cuscal digital APIs to our clients.

Extensively participated as product owner in one of Cuscal's major new digital project and product launch, i.e. Apple Pay. Facilitated and supported 31 domestic banks and credit unions to launch with Apple Pay on 15/11/2016.

Extensively participated as product owner in one of Cuscal's another major digital project and product launch, i.e. Android Pay. Facilitated and supported 26 domestic banks and credit unions to launch with Android Pay on Android Pay initial Australian launch day (i.e. 14/07/2016), and another 10 financial institutions to launch with Android Pay since then.

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