Tiffena Kou

International Product Manager

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About Me

Over a decade’s experiences in leading V1 product launches & user programs in US/APAC. Now building travel recommenders with AI.

Experience

Microsoft China, Shanghai

Senior Program Manager 2015
  • Led agile product team to build interactive Azure website features (chatbot, games, troubleshooters, pricing bundles) for education and conversion. Deployed iterative experiments, site analytics and user research to guide roadmap and prioritization.
  • Collaborated with Azure engineering, marketing, sales, support and business development to generate user insight for product development, identify quality leads, build compaigns to increase user conversion/retention and reduce hi-impact support calls.

Microsoft HQ, Redmond

International Program Manager 2011 - 2014
  • Incubated and ran pilot developer/IT Pro community programs in APAC region for SQL Server/Azure product launches.
  • Built new team and delivered first content production and creation system for Azure in international markets.
Senior Content Developer 2002 - 2010
  • Designed and developed developer content porfolios and information architecture for Visual Studio, .NET SDKs and SQL Server.
  • Created customer advisory and early adoption programs to build relationship and solicit product feedback in developer/IT Pro community.

Projects

Find My Ryokan

the Spotify of Ryokans - 2024

Building recommender with multimodal models to personalize and curate luxury traditional inns

Book Tracker

Increase knowledge retention and ROI - 2021

Recall better with structural notetaking & manage reading ROI with metrics visualization

Education

Bsc. Computer Science

Oklahoma State University

Languages

English - Bilingual

Chinese - Native

Japanese - Elementary

Skills

Product Management

  • website design
  • market & user research
  • agile PM (Kanban and scrum)
  • Data Analytics

  • Python w/ Pandas & Seaborn
  • SQL, Excel
  • Google Analytics
  • Software Development

  • recommender w/ scikit-learn
  • NLP (jp/en) w/ NLTK & spaCy
  • RAG w/LLM, agent & VectorDB
  • Content/User Engagement

  • content strategy & design
  • early adopter programs
  • product advisory board
  • Interests

  • emerging markets
  • multilingual AI agents
  • consumer psychology
  • social design