Albert Cheng
Product leader at Duolingo, SoFi, YouTube, and more. Love supporting great founders through their journey.
Product leader at Duolingo, SoFi, YouTube, and more. Love supporting great founders through their journey.
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Experience
Director of Product
Leading the product areas for social, app engagement, and crypto. Working hard with my teammates to build a best-in-class investing experience that helps our members in their... more journey to financial independence.
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New Wave
Co-Founder
New Wave was the first ever SEC-registered investment advisor for crypto. Our robo-advisor helped people invest intelligently in cryptocurrencies. I owned a broad spectrum... more of functions including product, growth, design, marketing, and support.
Despite launching and gaining traction, we ran into the significant challenges of a robo-advisor business model and operating in a crypto bear market, and I was subsequently brought into SoFi to lead their crypto initiative.
Despite launching and gaining traction, we ran into the significant challenges of a robo-advisor business model and operating in a crypto bear market, and I was subsequently brought into SoFi to lead their crypto initiative.
Outpost
Head of Product (Platform)
I was the first PM for the company and built out and managed the 14-person Platform organization (product, engineering, design, data). When I joined, the company had no users... more or revenue or platform, and we created a technology platform called Hero and an interactive website hero.tv which enabled live audiences to participate directly in games. To showcase this platform, our company built a multiplayer survival game called SOS which was briefly the second most-watched game worldwide on Twitch.
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Chariot
Head of Product and Engineering
Led PM/Design/Eng/QA in a transportation startup of 30 people, up to an acquisition by Ford Smart Mobility in Sep 2016 for $65M.
Expanded to service over 30 commuter... more and enterprise routes throughout the SF Bay Area and Austin, providing over 18,000 rides per week with an 85% weekly retention.
As the company’s first PM, I spec’d and launched a wide range of products, including our iOS app redesign, a new referral system for drivers and commuters, and Google Maps API integration
Expanded to service over 30 commuter... more and enterprise routes throughout the SF Bay Area and Austin, providing over 18,000 rides per week with an 85% weekly retention.
As the company’s first PM, I spec’d and launched a wide range of products, including our iOS app redesign, a new referral system for drivers and commuters, and Google Maps API integration
YouTube
Senior Program Manager
As a founding member of YouTube Gaming, I initiated and drove many successful product features for mobile, desktop, live streaming, monetization, and international growth,... more while managing the technical roadmap for all Gaming initiatives at YouTube. In recognition of my impact, I was promoted with the highest possible rating given across Google (Superb).
Sports Technology Manager
Directed the product and technical efforts on YouTube with premiere sports events, including the
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, FIFA World Cup, Super Bowl, and America’s Cup
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, FIFA World Cup, Super Bowl, and America’s Cup
Video Streaming Engineer
Delivered reliable, high-quality video streaming of Google’s most critical events, including product launches, earnings calls, and executive all hands. I was promoted in April... more 2013.
Initiated and led a cross-functional project involving approximately 20 employees to integrate closed captioning into YouTube live streams and Google Hangouts
Initiated and led a cross-functional project involving approximately 20 employees to integrate closed captioning into YouTube live streams and Google Hangouts
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Elemental Technologies
Systems Engineering Manager
Initiated and managed the Worldwide Systems Engineering and 24/7 Technical Support team, driving an enterprise customer growth of over 50% every quarter from 0 to 200 during... more my tenure.
Sample projects awarded and implemented under my team:
o HBO Go: conversion of all feature-length shows to play on iOS and Android devices
o BBC 2012 Olympics: live video streaming and coverage of the London Olympics
o Stanford Athletics: powering wi-fi instant replay on mobile devices at Stanford Stadium
Sample projects awarded and implemented under my team:
o HBO Go: conversion of all feature-length shows to play on iOS and Android devices
o BBC 2012 Olympics: live video streaming and coverage of the London Olympics
o Stanford Athletics: powering wi-fi instant replay on mobile devices at Stanford Stadium
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- Recruiting and managing over 40 product, design, engineering, data, and support folks throughout my career, with zero attrition
- Initiating and launching live streaming and gaming features to 20M users globally at Google and YouTube
- Starting a company which fought through significant regulatory hurdles to be the first of its kind to market
- Driving crypto trading at SoFi from idea to launch within six months.
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