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    David Chu

    David Chu

    Founder (Product, Go-to-market, Strategy) across Enterprise, SaaS, Gaming, Education verticals. Looking for new, exciting, confounding problems to solve

    Product Fremont University Of Califor...
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    Join me at Meta!
    596 Open Positions · $0k–$490k/yr
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    Meta
    Meta
    Data Scientist 2024 - Present (about 2 years)
    Digital Turbine
    Digital Turbine
    Product Analytics Lead 2023 - 2024 (about 1 year)
    SmartNews
    SmartNews
    Product Manager 2022 - 2023 (11 months)
    SmartNews' first full-time boomerang employee. Reached out to former colleague Product VP for thoughts on the data org and she offered me a job as a PM supporting my old content... more team.

    ‣ Drove cross-functional alignment. Drove alignment across eng, design, media operations, and trust & safety to optimize SmartNews' new inventory funnel.
    ‣ Shipped tools to streamline new inventory. Shipped internal tools for AB testing new publishers which derisked and unblocked new inventory sources.
    ‣ Defined and quantidied known fuzzy risks. Applied quantitative criteria to known but undefined problematic content, and proposed measurement and mitigation strategies to executive leadership.
    Twitter
    Twitter
    Senior Data Analyst 2018 - 2021 (about 3 years)
    First foray into "Big Tech". Twitter sold MoPub for $1.05 billion, and I helped build that. Product analytics, research, and client management for MoPub Ad Exchange and the... more MoPub Acquire bidder (f/k/a CrossInstall). At other companies my role would have been Insights or Analytics Data Scientist.

    ‣ Uncovered blind spots. Unearthed competitors’ attribution gaming tactics through research and experimentation. Advocated reactive product updates to leadership which netted 3x growth in video market share.
    ‣ Plugged revenue leaks. Developed and evangelized novel creative load metrics which led to discovery and resolution of multi-million dollar bug.
    ‣ Triggered client competition. Developed novel aggregated peerset comparison reports for clients, unblocking revenue opportunities.
    ‣ Improved advertiser results. Generated 1.5-3x lifts on advertiser KPIs.
    Got It AI
    Got It AI
    Co-Founder, President, Head of Product 2020 - 2024 (almost 5 years)
    (Acquired)
    Cofounder focused on product management, product go-to-market, customers/partners, and strategy for an Enterprise generative AI automated platform, CX 360 flows,... more and TruthChecker hallucination detection / correction applications.
    - Defined product, solutions architecture for customer deployments in conjunction with customer and channel partner stakeholders, obtaining infrastructure, business, and legal approval from Enterprise customers.
    - Drove all go-to-market testing including customer acquisition strategies (direct sales, conference marketing, PR, channel partnerships) and pricing / packaging models.
    - Technical Product Manager for coordination between R&D team and overseas (Vietnam and India) engineering team, specifications, releases and beta tests.
    - Defined and own product release process for customers and partners.
    - Manage business operations and personnel management for data labeling and data operations.
    Head of Product 2015 - 2020 (over 4 years)
    Product ownership, specification, and execution of demand-side consumer application and supply-side, on-demand marketplace of knowledge experts.

    Platform: optimized... more game theory-based bidding, ranking algorithm and system for real-time selection of qualified tutors from a pool of 1000s, yielding optimal cost efficiency for 20-minute academic tutoring sessions.
    RidePal
    RidePal
    Executive 2013 - 2014 (10 months)
    • Drove product and marketing activities to achieve 200% increase in monthly ridership and revenue
    • Defined product roadmap for RidePal’s 3-sided marketplace (riders,... more corporations, vendors) to initiate self-sustaining network-effect and viral growth
    • Re-developed core business and financial models into a service / SaaS offering, enabling quicker sales cycles and shortened contracting times

    GREE International
    GREE International
    Director of Product Marketing 2011 - 2013 (about 2 years)
    Helped launch global social gaming platform w/ 10K+ game developers signed up. Ran studio title marketing and UA strategy, developed operating and launch processes for ROI+... more user acquisition
    Ubicom
    Ubicom
    Director of Product Management 2008 - 2011 (about 3 years)
    Pique Software
    Pique Software
    Founder, Co-Founder 2007 - 2008 (about 1 year)
    NetLogic Microsystems
    Exit
    NetLogic Microsystems
    Product Marketing Manager 2006 - 2007 (about 1 year)
    Cypress Semiconductor
    Exit
    Cypress Semiconductor
    Product Manager 2002 - 2006 (over 3 years)
    Founder
    Pique Software
    Employee
    RidePal, Got It AI, GREE International, NetLogic Microsystems, Cypress Semiconductor, Ubicom, Twitter, SmartNews, Digital Turbine, Meta
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    About
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    Launched a mobile gaming platform globally with over 10000 developers through growth-hacked marketing and product definition. Additionally, I redesigned product launch and business operations criteria for all new games in development globally, yielding significantly increased profitability and scalability. Lastly, I redesigned product marketing / user acquisition practices which yielded a significantly increased cost effectiveness of mobile user acquisition at scale.

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    Skills
    Growth Hacking Product Management Product Marketing Business Strategy Mobile Games Free-to-Play Analytics & Reporting Growth Hacker User Acquisition Matplotlib Python Visual Basic ETL Semiconductors noSQL MongoDB SQL Jupyter Notebook Numpy
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area
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