# Riya Patel

> Product @ Audible | MIT Sloan MBA | Building Generative AI products 🛠️

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/riyapatel

I’m a Product Manager at Audible, where I focus on building AI-powered search tools to help listeners find content they love.

I recently graduated with my MBA from MIT Sloan, where I concentrated on business strategy and product management. Before Sloan, I spent 6 years as an architect at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, leading global multidisciplinary teams across the United States, Japan, India, Spain, and Israel.

I’m passionate about combining data-driven analysis and creative problem-solving to design products and strategies that enhance user experience and deliver meaningful impact at scale.

## Work Experience
### AI Product Manager - Content Discovery @ Audible
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Founder @ BlueprintML
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States
Generative AI software startup focusing on streamlining CAD editing workflows for Architects
• Secured non-dilutive funding from MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund and selected as a finalist for MIT Arts Startup Incubator
• Led customer discovery through market research and 40+ customer interviews, generating data-driven insights to craft the product vision, define key AI-features, user stories, and built an initial Product Requirements Document
• Leveraged early feedback to refine the product interface design for the MVP, presented product demo to potential customers, which led to significant traction with a waitlist of 300+ early adopters

### AI Product Manager @ National Academy of Medicine
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
• Led product development for generative AI agent tracking impact of NAM’s publications; surfaced user pain-points through interviews, defined OKRs and success metrics, and aligned product strategy with engineers and business stakeholders
• Prototyped MVP in Python and Stack AI; prioritized features and implemented workflows for LLM-based sentiment analysis, NLP, and web scraping

### MBA Candidate @ MIT Sloan School of Management
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Certificates: Business Analytics and Product Management.
• Senior Vice President of Product Management Club, organizing events and workshops to enhance members' knowledge and skills in product management.
• Career Peer for the Career Development Office, assisting students with resume building and interview preparation.
• Chosen for MIT’s Women in Leadership Experiential Trip Program in Washington DC (Only 5% of applicants selected)

### Strategy Consultant @ EY-Parthenon
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States

### Product Manager @ IntelyCare
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Collaborated with Senior Product Manager and cross-functional team to track sprints and ensure alignment using JIRA.
• Developed key user personas through interviews with data, credentialing, and customer success teams.
• Recommended features to boost user engagement by analyzing competitor products and user-data; designed feature mockups on Figma.

### Associate @ Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States

### Architectural Designer @ Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York

### Architectural Intern @ Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, United States

### Curator & Moderator of “The Next Architect” webinar series @ Acetech Exhibition
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Pitched a webinar series aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion in the design industry to Acetech, India's largest architecture publication; secured approval from the Directors and a dedicated support team. 
• Led the planning and execution of 5 episodes; amplified voices of 25 young designers from Japan, India, United States, China, and Turkey

### Architectural Intern @ DSP Design Associates
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai, India

### Architectural Intern @ DSP Design Associates
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai Area, India


## Education
### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Product Management, Business Analytics
MIT Sloan School of Management
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) in Architecture
Pratt Institute
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018

### Commercial Real Estate Certificate in Real Estate Development
Cornell University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### IB in International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB)
Dhirubhai Ambani International School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013

### I.C.S.E
The J. B. Petit High School for Girls
Jan 2000 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ar-riyapatel

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Last updated: 2026-03-29