Lijuan YAN
Principle Product Manager
Shenzhen
Summary
- A highly-motivated and experienced Product Management leader with over 13 years of experience of building global industry-leading APP and Web consumer products at Alibaba, Expedia, Skyscanner.
- With a belief in the power of excellent end to end user experiences and a strong focus on quality, I have extensive experience forming and leading empowered product teams in delivering user and business value.
Overview
2
2
Languages
5
5
years of post-secondary education
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Principle Product Manager
Skyscanner
Shenzhen, Guangdong
07.2020 - Current
- Responsible for setting and executing product strategy for Skyscanner hotel product which includes hotel in- funnel and hotel user growth.
Senior product manager
Skyscanner
Shenzhen, Guangdong
11.2017 - 06.2020
- Got promoted to be Principle product manager at July 2020.
- Worked as product lead when hotel engineering, product and design teams transitioned from Barcelona and London to Shenzhen team at Sept of 2019.
- Steered tribe's roadmap and owning the OKRs for the tribe, setting goals, reporting them, re-arranging timelines and assigning people and tasks.
- Driven but also open to discuss what the team should tackle (facilitating open planning sessions, and ensuring teams could bubble up ideas from the teams) to how to tackle it (worked with UX/UI design team in a really good groove in how to roadmap design and engineering each quarter to ensure there are minimal blockers).
- Driven the delivery for over 40 new major features released H1 2020 that sets Skyscanner Hotels apart from the rest.
- Covered the whole gamut, from being a very detailed oriented day-to-day PO for two squads as well as managing direct reports.
Senior Product Manager (P7)
Alibaba
Hangzhou, Zhejiang
09.2016 - 10.2017
- Delivered a major product which involves about 30 engineers, 1 month for coding, It is a new business strategy that is aim to extend its hotel business to oversee.
- It turned out a really successful MVP, gained more than 20 bookings per day with less than 10 hotels opening.
Senior Product Manager
Expedia
Shenzhen , Guangdong
03.2014 - 09.2016
- Took ownership in driving product and new feature development through every stage of the software development lifecycle.
- Worked with business stakeholders to balance business and technical objectives and manifest these as clear, stable priorities for the team.
- Turned high-level project objectives into a comprehensive set of stories by leading intensive, multi-discipline, collaboration sessions.
- Understood and actively advanced best practices (e.g. Agile/Scrum, Continuous Delivery).
- Actively contributed to our team's culture of having fun together, embracing change, and delivering.
Engineering Manager
Expedia
Shenzhen
03.2013 - 03.2014
- Built and managed an agile team of engineers in the Shenzhen R&D Center to design and implement new functionality and improve existing products.
- Be responsible for the on-time delivery of high quality code with low rates of production defects.
Test Manager
Expedia
Shenzhen, Guangdong
07.2008 - 02.2013
- Built and managed a automation test team with 36 team members.
- Main responsibility was testing hotelier focused websites and connectivity tools using variety of automated tools and testing methodologies.
Test Engineer
Infinova
Shenzhen, Guangdong
04.2006 - 07.2008
- Testing - test planning, test cases design, test execution.
- Documentation - manual documentation.
Education
Bachelor's degree - Computer and Information Sciences
Nankai University
Tianjin 09.2001 - 07.2006
Skills
Product Team Leadership
undefinedTimeline
Principle Product Manager
Skyscanner
07.2020 - Current
Senior product manager
Skyscanner
11.2017 - 06.2020
Senior Product Manager (P7)
Alibaba
09.2016 - 10.2017
Senior Product Manager
Expedia
03.2014 - 09.2016
Engineering Manager
Expedia
03.2013 - 03.2014
Test Manager
Expedia
07.2008 - 02.2013
Test Engineer
Infinova
04.2006 - 07.2008
Bachelor's degree - Computer and Information Sciences
Nankai University
09.2001 - 07.2006
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