Kit Tse

About

Driven by a desire to solve impactful problems, I have spent 5+ years in product management at startups and scaleups, leading cross-functional teams to build products from 0 to 1. My experience spans enterprise AI (L4 autonomous driving container trucks in container ports and digital twin systems for L4 autonomous fleets), B2C insurtech e-commerce, and mobile game discovery. Over the years, I have honed my ability to drive user-focused products and deliver outcomes by applying customer insights, UX thinking, data, technical understanding and business acumen to inform product decisions, align stakeholders and enable teams to execute with clarity on the why and the what. My approach is grounded in product discovery (concepts from SVPG, lean startup, design sprint) and agile methodologies (scrum, user stories), while collaborating closely with design, engineering and AI teams. I also bring a strategic mindset, developed through early-stage startup work, day-to-day product prioritisation, and roadmap planning, including a 3-year roadmap for the L4 autonomous truck at Westwell, developed in partnership with Hutchison Ports to support phased operational goals at a container port in Thailand. I recently completed a Master of Computer Science in Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), gaining hands-on experience in ML, deep learning, NLP, LLMs, data visualisation and model evaluation using tools such as Python, PyTorch, SQL and Tableau. Projects include writing a literature review of 4 NLP papers in emotion recognition and mental health detection, and fine-tuning a BERT-based model on a small healthcare dataset. This foundation complements my product background and strengthens my ability to collaborate with and support AI/ML teams, from understanding modelling workflows and data requirements to evaluating models and addressing responsible AI considerations. Personally, I’m most excited by building AI-powered products that genuinely solve user problems and create lasting value at scale. I'm currently building a nutrition AI assistant to recommend personalised diets and meal plans through agentic AI workflows. I also enjoy reading about positive psychology and related topics in mental health and well-being. I am actively exploring roles in product management, AI/ML or data science. While I have worked across several domains, I'm industry-agnostic and motivated by solving the right problems with the right teams. If my experience could be a good fit with what you're building, I would be glad to connect and chat.

Experience

• Product Management Consultant · Stealth Startup2025-08-01 –

  Antler-backed early-stage agentic AI startup in B2B SaaS.

• Career Break2020-02-01 – 2023-07-01

  • Navigated a newly diagnosed health condition through year-long recovery and successful lifestyle adaptation • Relocated to London in mid-2022 after deferring multiple times due to pandemic-related uncertainty and personal health considerations • Upskilled in Python, ML, TensorFlow, generative AI & LLMs, AI product management and finance • Applied to AI/ML master’s programs in 2023 to deepen technical expertise • Started UIUC's Master of Computer Science in Data Science in Aug 2023

• Product Manager · Westwell2019-06-01 – 2020-01-01

  Westwell is an enterprise AI scaleup developing L4 autonomous driving and automation solutions for container ports. Digital Twin System for L4 Autonomous Fleets (Trucks & Straddle Carriers) • Led 0 to 1 development of a real-time digital twin system with 4 engineers and 1 designer, in partnership with global port operator Hutchison Ports, to visualise and monitor autonomous operations for 10 L4 Autonomous Trucks (AT) at Thailand Laem Chabang port and 8 L4 Straddle Carriers (SC) at Stockholm Norvik port • Drove development of operations-critical features such as emergency stop and dynamic zoning (eg. hatch covers of ships placed on the quayside, constraining global path planning of autonomous vehicle fleets), supporting port operations and contributing to safety and operational efficiency (goal of 3.4M TEU/yr for ATs, and 500K TEU/yr for SCs) Maintenance Data System for L4 Autonomous Straddle Carriers • Led team of 3 engineers and 1 designer to build real-time module health dashboards with anomaly alerts (PLC data for hardware components, sensor data, autonomous driving modules data) for fleet of 8 L4 SCs at Stockholm Norvik port, in collaboration with ZPMC, reducing routine maintenance check times from ~1 hour to 15 minutes • Landed multi-year contract with ZPMC with $40K+ revenue in year 1, deepening an existing strategic partnership

• Project Manager · Westwell2018-11-01 – 2019-06-01

  L4 Autonomous Truck (max 35km/h, within Container Ports) • Drove a 5-phase technical proof-of-concept project for the L4 Autonomous Driving Container Truck on-site at YICT in Shenzhen, with CTO and team of 21 including autonomous driving engineers and data scientists across ML-driven modules such as localisation, perception (eg. multi-sensor object detection), planning (including trajectory prediction), and control, delivering a successful live demo to Hutchison Ports that secured a $2M+ contract of 10 L4 ATs for development at Thailand Laem Chabang port, initiating a long-term partnership • Collaborated closely with customer and CTO during proof-of-concept to prioritise problems and align technical requirements with customer needs and product objectives, enabling engineers to solve key challenges such as achieving 95.1% AT alignment success with RTGC • Planned a 3-year roadmap post-PoC for development at Thailand Laem Chabang port, having first defined MVP and operational design domain (ODD), and incorporating objectives, autonomous driving complexity (eg. scenarios, objects, speed, weather), key modules (eg. perception, planning), safety considerations, and other constraints

• Associate Product Manager · EdirectInsure Group2016-10-01 – 2018-10-01

  EdirectInsure (now bolttech) was a B2C insurtech e-commerce scaleup focused on the Thai market, funded by London-based Nova Founders, and acquired by FWD Group in late 2018. Motor Voluntary Insurance Vertical • Led 2 engineers to develop motor voluntary insurance plan score, integrating 3M+ plans data via partner APIs (eg. AXA, BKI), to enable personalised recommendations for users, refining initial framework from leadership aligned with strategic product goals • Reworked car model selection to improve user experience, increasing conversion rate from 30% to 32.8% Motor CTPL, Motorcycle CTPL, Travel, and Personal Accident Verticals • Drove and launched workflows for each vertical in collaboration with CPO, CTO, and team of 17, including product managers, designers, software engineers, QA, and DevOps, across Hong Kong, Porto, and Bangkok offices, achieving first online policy issuance in Thailand Product Analytics, All Online Verticals – Motor, Motorcycle, Travel, and Personal Accident Insurance • Owned and analysed funnel metrics by vertical (50K+ DAU), providing insights to product and marketing • Generated daily and weekly analytics reports sent company-wide

• Product Associate · Bindo2015-03-01 – 2015-05-01

  iPad Point of Sale System • Drove RFID payment and merchant dashboard. Collaborated with 3 customers (64 stores) to identify POS needs

• Co-Founder (Product) · Cheerclan2012-07-01 – 2014-05-01

  Cheerclan was a startup in Hong Kong Science Park's Incu-App, which I co-founded with 2 technical co-founders shortly after graduating from university. • Launched Android game discovery app focused on improving long tail discovery of mobile games, achieving 5K+ Android installs and Facebook follows, while iterating towards an ML-based personalised recommendation engine • Selected as a finalist in the 3rd HKUST-Sino Entrepreneurship Competition, placing in the top teams out of 100+ entries

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Computer Science, Data Science
• The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Engineering & Bachelor of Business Administration, Computer Science, General Business Management
• Georgia Institute of TechnologySpring 2011 Exchange Program, Computer Science
• Copenhagen Business SchoolFall 2010 Exchange Program, Business Management
• Meridian Junior CollegeSingapore-Cambridge GCE A-Levels

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