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Lin Chen

San Francisco Bay Area,CA

Summary

  • 8 years of experience in Ads, AI/ML, and e-Commerce at top tech companies
  • Drove ads signal, traffic, and delivery products at TikTok and Meta
  • Deep expertise in ML ranking, recommendation systems, and state-of-the-art AI models

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Manager

TikTok
06.2023 - Current

Traffic Ads Product:

  • Led TikTok traffic ads strategy initiatives, delivering concrete product plans that drove X% year-over-year growth
  • Drove AI/ML based automation solution and advertiser experience enhancement with 5+ teams

Ads Signal Product:

  • Built web signal integration with partnership companies to drive significant high quality and resilience signal growth, by closely working with 30+ XFNs
  • Led the team build AI/ML-driven signal automation solutions, unblocked X% signal growth and Y% signal utilization impact on targeting, measurement, and optimization
  • Drove the signal quality work and built the evaluation system

Senior Data Scientist

Meta
01.2020 - 06.2023

AI

  • Guided AI product feature direction on Ray‑Ban Meta smart glasses with comprehensive analysis
  • Built high quality evaluation system for speech and CV models, which laid the foundation for 1 Million+ smart glasses and other AR/VR and video products

Ads Ranking & Delivery Product

  • Initiated new ads delivery product with in-depth analysis, user research, and opportunity sizing. Developed the new product which achieved $XXX Million run rate
  • Drove the understanding and enhancement of AI/ML models of ad ranking and delivery product, unlocking Millions of incremental revenue

Marketplace Ranking and Recommendation:

Led marketplace quality initiatives, focusing on AI/ML ranking and recommendation systems

Data Scientist

Houzz
07.2017 - 01.2020

eCommerce Marketplace & Ads:

  • Delivered product insights and shaped marketplace strategies through data analysis
  • Collaborated closely with 10+ engineers to optimize ML algorithms for marketplace ranking and recommendations
  • Founding data scientist for Marketplace Product Ads, owned the end-to-end analytics, ML modeling, and measurement work, which drove $X Million run rate

Data Scientist Intern

Scientific Revenue
10.2016 - 06.2017
  • Mobile game user purchase behavior analytics and LTV prediction

Education

Master of Science (MSc) - Data Science

University of San Francisco

Master of Science (MSc) -

University of Alberta

Bachelor of Science (BSc) -

Nanjing University

Skills

  • Product Strategy
  • Product Management
  • Analytics
  • Cross functional leadership
  • AI/ML

Languages

English
Chinese (Mandarin)

Timeline

Senior Product Manager

TikTok
06.2023 - Current

Senior Data Scientist

Meta
01.2020 - 06.2023

Data Scientist

Houzz
07.2017 - 01.2020

Data Scientist Intern

Scientific Revenue
10.2016 - 06.2017

Master of Science (MSc) - Data Science

University of San Francisco

Master of Science (MSc) -

University of Alberta

Bachelor of Science (BSc) -

Nanjing University
Lin Chen