Handpick, Inc.Director of Product
May. 2014 - Apr. 2016San Francisco Bay AreaAs Handpick's director of Product Management, I provide my team with the direction and the strategy to offer meal kits to grocery e-Commence retailers by using recipes and food consumption trends found in our data.
Some high-level accomplishments from Handpick:
- Led and managed a team of content managers, designers, and product managers that are in charge of developing Handpick's B2B website, eCommerce products, recipe apps, and content pipeline.
- Led the ideation, design, and product development of Handpick's Recipe and ingredient recommendation app. - Reinvented Handpick's content strategy by creating an in-house production lab of original recipe and dish content, including meal kits, recipes, and various food editorial content, while maintaining the company's supplemental corpus of aggregated recipes and dish data.
- Shipped the company's redesigned iOS app and first Android app, increasing user acquisition by 10x and engagement by 5x. The iOS app was named Best App in Food & Drink and was featured on the Homepage.
- Researched, designed, and implemented Handpick Smart Groceries, the company's first monetization strategy and revenue model based on creating meal kits that are designed around grocery retailers' SKUs/CPGs.
- Collaborated with the CTO and Engineering Director to devise a series of machine learning models to analyze recipes, ingredients, and social food data.