Product Manager - Google Now @ Product Lead - Growth and Content, Google Now
Google Now is an intelligent personal assistant that predicts and fulfills user needs.
I have been the product lead on building extremely personalized and contextual predictive experiences at scale, spanning from building core systems, including user modeling, recommendation systems, and extraction of personal information from emails, to building the user facing aspect of the product, including sports, travel, personalized reading content, and more.
Most recently, I have been heading up Growth and Content on Google Now. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaProduct Manager - Google Search @ As a Product Leader in Search, I led the My Answers project, turning Search into a conversational assistant that answers questions about your own world, and stretching Search capabilities to answering personal questions, not just public, for the first time in Search history.
• Led "My Answers" from inception to launch on google.com
• Built a natural language understanding engine for triggering personal answers on google.com From July 2012 to July 2013 (1 year 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaAssociate Intern @ Conduct deal screening, due diligence and evaluation of investment opportunities in digital media, video streaming, mobile, Internet and communication From February 2012 to August 2012 (7 months) Greater Chicago AreaProduct Management Intern @ • Conducted competitive analysis, focusing on competitors' pricing and promotion strategies
• Developed a pricing, promotion and selling strategy for Microsoft Lync to ensure competitiveness for FY2012
• Evaluated expected economic value created both for Microsoft and for the customer from developing and providing a disruptive audio conferencing service From June 2011 to August 2011 (3 months) Mobile Communication Engineer @ From March 2008 to August 2010 (2 years 6 months) Mobile Communication Engineer @ From August 2006 to March 2008 (1 year 8 months) RFIC Engineer @ From February 2004 to August 2006 (2 years 7 months)
MBA, Concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Finance and Strategic Management @ The University of Chicago Booth School of Business From 2010 to 2012 B.Sc., Electrical Engineering @ Tel Aviv University From 2002 to 2006 Roy Livne is skilled in: Business Strategy, Product Marketing, Product Management, Mobile Devices, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Competitive Analysis, Product Development, Start-ups, Go-to-market Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Team Leadership, Project Management, Management, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing, Analytics