# Michael Park > Product Strategy Lead (0→1 / Discovery / Experience Strategy) Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelpark I’m a product strategy lead with a 8+ years of experience guiding 0→1 discovery, product definition, and early-stage launches across in-house product teams and multi-year consulting engagements in the U.S. and South Korea. I’ve held full-time roles at Amazon, PwC, and Neustar, and served as a founding product manager for two early-stage ventures. I work with executive teams and functional leaders at both corporations and start-ups to drive leadership decisions in ambiguous environments—framing the problem, assessing market potential, securing investment, and validating early traction and GTM strategy. I lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, operations, finance, marketing, and brand, and stay hands-on through mixed-method insight, experience architecture, feasibility alignment, and shipping early products for PMF validation. My projects include an AI-powered wildfire response system deployed across Western California, a corporate-level service-transformation for a major national telecom provider, and next-generation wearable interactions and prioritization. Earlier in my career, I supported and managed multi-year business analytics and annual budget planning engagement for CMO teams at national brands that shaped how I approach alignment and executive communication. Across all of this, I help teams understand user behavior, reduce internal complexity, and move confidently from concept to shipped outcomes. ## Work Experience ### Project Lead & Senior Strategist @ Daylight Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area, Seoul Daylight is a 30-people design & innovation agency based across SF, Seoul & Munich. Currently applying AI-integrated design process from research to production refined with human taste. We use human-centered disciplines to turn complex challenges into physical products, digital solutions & branded experiences for leadership decisions. From global brands to social ventures, we partner closely with clients to design impacts for people since 2007. ### Graduate Teaching Fellow @ Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Graduate Design Teaching Fellow for engineering students prototyping the futures of data centers (systems design, UX, positioning, narrative). Led by Prof. Chris Lombardo & Prof. Gu-Yeon Wei. ### Master in Design Engineering @ Harvard University Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 On leave during COVID (2021-2022) working at two start-ups (0 → 1s). “It’s not about whether humans or machines do better, it’s about what better means.” ### Senior Product Manager - Technical (L6) @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States Writing PRFAQ & 6-pagers to drive Amazon Seller Wallet 1+. ### Founding Product Manager, Product Lead @ Pala Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seoul, South Korea Recruited as a founding team member @ a NAVER-led (Korea’s #1 search engine) joint-venture during leave from graduate studies. • Launched 5 MVPs in 9 months as the sole PM. • Scaled an NFT marketplace from 0 → $20M in transaction volume within 3 months of launch. • Grew the team from 8 → 45 in the first year. Left role to return to grad school. ### Founding Product Manager, Wildfire Detection AI @ Alchera Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seoul, San Francisco Bay Area Founding Product Manager @ Anomaly Detection Lab during leave from graduate studies. • Deployed a real-time wildfire detection AI system contracted by Sonoma County & PG&E. • AI system detected the 2021 River Fire before any other sources (2 pilot users → 100% adoption in 3 months). ### Logistics Planning, Air Force Operations Command @ Republic of Korea Air Force Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Osan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea Honored to have served. Deep respect for public services & leadership. Acquired dual citizenship (U.S. & South Korea). Served as a military interpreter for negotiations & operations planning with the U.S. Air Force leadership (Engineering, Munitions & Petroleum). Appointed & served as the Enlisted Representative of the Osan base. (2017) ### Consultant, Strategy @ TransUnion Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York City Metropolitan Area (Nuestar acquired by Golden Gate Capital in 2016, now part of TransUnion) Led cross-functional teams of data managers, data scientists, and technical product managers. Clients’ leadership questions included: • What are the annual revenue forecasts across US, EU & APAC? • What is the ROI on a Super Bowl ad vs. a nationwide promotion? • How should we architect our global data warehouse? Analyst → Manager in 2.5 years. Managed 3 long-term clients with a 100% retention/upsells. ### Staff Consultant @ TransUnion Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Associate Staff Consultant @ TransUnion Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area ### Experienced Associate @ PwC Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area While my team designed the first ACA-compliant pricing models for national insurance carriers, I: • Learned macros because vlookups couldn’t hold up. • Prayed before live-modeling during client calls. • 200+ pages of handwritten partner notes turned into decks overnight. ### Undergraduate Interships @ Various Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 Ernst & Young (2011, Seoul), Nasdaq (2011-2012, NYC), PwC (2013, NYC) & Deloitte Consulting (2014, NYC). Accepted a full-time return offer from PwC. ## Education ### Master's degree in Design Engineering Harvard University ### Bachelor of Science in Double Majors in Statistics and Finance, Minor in Mathematics NYU Stern School of Business ### Continuing Education in UX Design New York University ### High School Diploma Canterbury School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelpark913 --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelpark JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelpark/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05