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Karen Yan - Staff Product Manager (Core Experience GM) in Chicago, IL

Karen Yan

Staff Product Manager specializing in platform and AI-driven consumer products

EarninNorthwestern UniversityChicago, IL13 Years ExperienceStaff Level

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Product leader with experience at Apple and Earnin, focused on redesigning core user journeys with strong UX judgment, experimentation, and applied ML. Notable wins include leading Apple Support's search-first triage experience that increased search usage from 3% to 40% and improved solution reach from 54% to 62%, plus a web onboarding redesign that lifted activation by 12%. Thoughtful about human-centered AI, especially using automation to guide users and support people rather than replace human relationships.

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Key Strengths

  • Led Apple Support app search-led redesign end-to-end
  • Strong user research to product direction translation
  • Human-centered AI/ML product judgment
  • Balances model confidence with UX through disambiguation flows
  • Data-driven product leadership with clear success metrics
  • Improved support solution reach from 54% to 62%
  • Grew search usage from 3% to 40% of sessions
  • Improved onboarding activation by 12%
  • Cross-functional alignment across multiple engineering teams and executives
  • Design simplification under technical constraints
  • Manager of core experience unit spanning 3 engineering teams
  • Builds team operating rhythms and experimentation rigor
  • Coaches individual contributors toward greater ownership and communication

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Experience

Staff Product Manager (Core Experience GM)Earnin · Jan 2025 – Present
Senior Product ManagerEarnin · Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Senior Product Manager, AppleCare DigitalApple · Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Product Manager, AppleCare DigitalApple · Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Senior Product AnalystParkWhiz · Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Management Consulting (Business Analyst to Senior Business Analyst)The Cambridge Group · Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

Education

Northwestern Universitymaster, MBA and MS Design Innovation (2019)
University of Chicagobachelor, Economics (2012)

Awards

  • Dean's List - Northwestern University
  • Merit Scholarship - Northwestern University
  • Dean's List - University of Chicago
  • National Merit Scholarship

Skills

Product ManagementOnboardingA/B TestingPerformance OptimizationCross-functional CollaborationAnalyticsStakeholder Managementuser researchPlatform ProductsAI-native ProductsAI-powered WorkflowsUser ExperienceProduct DiscoveryUser ActivationUser Engagement

Languages

English

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