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Senior Product Manager — New York, NY
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- Email: terry.w.lin@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: itsmeterrylin
- GitHub: itsmeterrylin
Summary
Senior Product Manager currently shipping AI Webchat at Canary Technologies (NYC). Six prior years at CB Insights leading search and AI-powered reading tools. Comfortable building rapid prototypes with agentic AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code, debugging backend flows, and collaborating across the stack — database, API, middleware, web/mobile frontend. Outside work, foster volunteer at NYC Animal Care Center.
Skills
| Product Strategy | Prototyping & Vibe Coding | Team Leadership | Business Intelligence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idea validation & "Mom Test", product roadmapping, prioritization & tradeoffs, UX | Cursor, Claude Code, V0, MCP, React, Tailwind, Python, Go, Swift UI, iOS, WatchOS, Supabase, PostHog, Railway, Vercel | Stakeholder management, mentorship & coaching, executive communication, project management | Datadog, Looker, Pendo, FullStory, Redash, Google Analytics |
Experience
| Senior Product Manager, AI Webchat — Canary Technologies | New York, NY (Hybrid) | Sep 2025 – Present |
YC-backed Series D company in hospitality AI.
| Senior Product Manager — CB Insights | New York, NY (Hybrid) | Jul 2019 – Sep 2025 |
CB Insights helps customers understand technology markets and companies using generative AI, predictive data science, and machine learning.
Search Platform — increased click-through rates from 68% to 85%, boosting revenue retention
- Spearheaded enhancements by adding semantic search using OpenAI text embeddings to improve relevance by matching on similar keywords. Worked with data science, engineering, and design to lift CTR from 68% → 85% using semantic AI-powered vector search.
- "Reinvented reading" with an AI-powered browser extension at 70% weekly retention, powered by Anthropic Sonnet 3.7. Developed the core prompt strategy and eval framework that compresses 7-minute business articles into personalized insights in seconds, tailored to each Fortune 500 customer.
| Product Manager — SelfKey | New York, NY (Remote) | Dec 2017 – Jun 2019 |
Blockchain identity company empowering individuals and organizations to own their digital identities on Ethereum.
| Product Manager — AMZ Tracker | Hong Kong, China | Dec 2016 – May 2017 |
E-commerce software for Amazon third-party sellers — launching products, monitoring competition, and growing reviews.
| Founder — Forever Home Blankets | Saigon, Vietnam | Feb 2015 – Oct 2016 |
Kickstarter campaign that exceeded its fundraising goal by 301% — 0 to 1.
| Corporate Access — UBS Investment Bank | Taipei, Taiwan | Nov 2009 – Aug 2013 |
Institutional equities — research, trading, and execution services to hedge funds, mutual funds, and sovereign wealth funds.
Side Projects
- Copper's Corner — Voice-first iOS & Apple Watch gym logger. Recognizes 1,000+ exercises (barbells, machines, cardio), tracks PRs and tempo automatically. Shipped to the App Store.
- prd-powerbomb — Open-source PRD rules for LLM coding agents. 50+ GitHub stars.
- NotHotDog — iOS app that tells you if it's a hotdog. Or not a hotdog.
Volunteer
- Foster Volunteer, NYC Animal Care Center — New York, NY · Sep 2021 – Present. ~35 foster kittens per year.
- Foster Volunteer, ARC Vietnam (Animal Rescue & Care) — Jan 2015 – Nov 2016.
Languages
English (native), Mandarin (full professional proficiency)
Education
| Bachelor's Degree, Economics | Whittier College — Whittier, CA |
| Study Abroad | Jönköping International Business School — Jönköping, Sweden |