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, Azure 2015
  • Led agile product team to build interactive website features (chatbot, games, troubleshooters, pricing calc) for education and conversion. Deployed iterative experiments, site analytics and user research to guide roadmap and prioritization.
  • Collaborated with 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, SQL/Azure 2011 - 2014
  • Incubated and ran pilot community programs in APAC region for product launches and user experience study.
  • Built new team and delivered first content production and creation system for Azure in international markets.
Senior Content Developer, Visual Studio/SQL Server 2002 - 2010
  • Designed, managed and developed multimodal content porfolios and information architecture.
  • Created customer advisory and early adoption programs to build relationship and solicit product feedback to improve product and content.

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