Kevin Sung

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 5 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led AI integration at Dropbox, enhancing productivity.
  • Reversed subscription churn, improving ARR by $24M.
  • Scaled Dropbox Replay ARR to $2.5M.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Leader with a strong focus on growth and user engagement.

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Core Skills

Product ManagementAi IntegrationTeam LeadershipSubscription RetentionStrategy DevelopmentEcosystem DevelopmentGrowth StrategyUser EngagementCross-platform StrategyMarket Analysis

Other Skills

AI/MLCross-functional LeadershipProject ManagementQuality AssuranceCustomer RetentionData AnalysisProduct IntegrationUser ExperienceProduct StrategyAPI DevelopmentPartnership ManagementMarket DevelopmentFeature DevelopmentOperations ManagementMarket Research

About

Senior Product Leader | 15+ years leading teams to build, scale, and monetize products reaching hundreds of millions of users worldwide. I bring a proven track record of transforming ideas into impact. My leadership style is grounded in integrity and clarity, empowering teams to take ownership, align on what matters most, and deliver results. I believe that truly great products and services come from disciplined execution, bold strategy, and differentiated value, not shortcuts and growth hacks. Core areas of impact: New Products & Platforms -- incubated and scaled 0→1 bets, launched AI/ML search, APIs, and ecosystem integrations. Customer Experience -- reimagined cross-platform workflows, elevated UX standards, and improved reliability at global scale. Growth & Monetization -- drove adoption through onboarding and retention strategies, scaled payments, and expanded internationally. I thrive at the intersection of vision and execution: setting strategy, aligning organizations, and coaching leaders to raise the bar. My focus is always on business outcomes: growth, engagement, and durable competitive advantage.

Experience

Career break

Health and well-being

Jan 2026Present · 2 mos

Dropbox

4 roles

Senior Director, Product Management

Promoted

Feb 2024Jan 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Senior product leader in company-wide initiative to integrate AI search and chat into Dropbox. Previously led Multi-Product group in Core (100+ HC, 11 PMs), owning content workflows, file sharing, search, browse, previews, recommendations, and Dropbox Replay.
  • ▪ Brought integrated chat and search to successful beta release, embedding AI-powered productivity directly into core workflows.
  • ▪ Led a cross-functional team to rationalize fragmented sharing (e.g. Dropbox Transfer) into a unified model — driving +120% growth in explicit sharing activity and making sharing the source of 50% of all new signups.
  • ▪ Led portfolio realignment across Sign, DocSend, Replay, Studio, and Capture, unshipping misaligned integrations and sunsetting apps to reduce complexity and improve long-term retention.
  • ▪ Scaled Dropbox Replay ARR to $2.5M, expanding adoption of video collaboration within creative workflows and 3rd party tools (Avid Pro Tools, DaVinci Resolve, etc.)
  • ▪ Advised 2024 overhaul of PDLC, roadmap, metrics, and PM career ladder, shaping company-wide product discipline and talent development.
  • ▪ Selected as one of two senior product leaders to run Dropbox’s company-wide reliability “Code Red,” coordinating 14 teams across 8 core workflows and 6 monetization funnels; stabilized daily SEVs, halted ~$8M in quarterly revenue losses, and overhauled QA processes with universal audit, TestRail standardization, and new vendor partnerships.
Product ManagementAI Integration

Director, Product Management - Core Search & Organize, Core Usability

Feb 2021Feb 2024 · 3 yrs

  • Led cross-platform teams responsible for the majority of Dropbox’s core Files surfaces, which reach 700M+ users and drive $2B+ in annual revenue. Accountable for subscription retention and churn management (~$500M ARR), search and ML platforms, and infrastructure indexing over 1 trillion files. Partnered across US/Canada and Tel Aviv offices.
  • ▪ Reversed long-term subscription churn (M13+) for the first time in company history by simplifying the user journey across file uploads, organization, retrieval, and sharing across Dropbox — improving ARR by $24M!
  • ▪ Made Performance a priority. Improved upload speed (esp. for large files 1GB+), putting Dropbox atop Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box in independent benchmark tests. Championed transformation of web browse into single page app (SPA), significantly reducing user page load times (sub 2.5s) among other benefits.
  • ▪ Led post-M&A integration of Command E (universal search product), releasing internal beta in two quarters, fixing PC compatibility, and graduating the team to a new org — now the foundation of Dropbox Dash.
  • ▪ Delivered foundational metadata infrastructure (live-fill + backfill) for 1T+ files, enabling improved classification, organization, and downstream ML use cases.
  • ▪ Drove search stack unification, including data revamp, UX cleanup, relevance improvements, and $X million in infra cost savings.
  • ▪ Worked with L&D to assess, pilot, and deploy Chronus mentorship platform, replacing internal tool (Matchbox) and improving company-wide peer coaching.
Product ManagementSubscription Retention

Head of PM, New Frontiers / Group Product Manager

Promoted

Feb 2020Feb 2021 · 1 yr

  • Led product function for Dropbox’s new bets under Max Ventilla. Ran team of 5 PMs over developer experience, ML, search platform, and incubator for early-stage products. Accountable for strategy, roadmap, talent development, and execution.
  • ▪ Supported adoption of MicDrop, a meeting and collaboration tool developed within New Frontiers.
  • ▪ Drove product direction for AFW, an intelligent meeting assistant for transcription and document authorship.
  • ▪ Shipped API scopes and short-lived tokens, strengthening platform security, transparency, and trust in third-party permissions across 9,000+ apps.
  • ▪ Led Applied ML and ML Platform teams in partnership with Core and Platform to deliver business-impacting improvements, including smart re-billing logic and customer segmentation (unlocking $X million in NNARR) and smart preview rendering/infra optimizations (driving $X million in annual cost savings).
  • ▪ Authored the 2021 multi-product strategy, leading to company-level decisions to unify brand, simplify pricing/packaging, and overhaul business enablement infrastructure.
  • ▪ Explored early-stage product bets in New Frontiers, including a workflow orchestration engine, browser extension, and meeting assistant concepts.
Product ManagementStrategy Development

Senior Product Manager - Ecosystem

Nov 2018Feb 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Led the Ecosystem Platform, a 25-person team responsible for the public API and developer adoption. Owned product strategy and execution, managing 3 PMs and partnering closely with Business Development to integrate leading SaaS partner apps.
  • ▪ Launched major SaaS partner integrations (Canva, ClipChamp, Notarize, DocSend), tripling user adoption of extensions after the release of Project Gemini.
  • ▪ Launched Sign in with Dropbox, a one-click authentication solution used to enable cross-sell and better identity management with HelloSign post-acquisition.
  • ▪ Shipped Embedder, enabling seamless embedding of Dropbox file/folder views onto third-party surfaces, enabling Dropbox to function as a host. (Super useful during COVID for distributing healthcare info!)
  • ▪ Built and launched the Dropbox App Center, providing listing, promotion, and lifecycle management for 90,000 apps at dropbox.com/apps
Product ManagementEcosystem Development

Smule, inc.

3 roles

Director, Product Management and Growth

Promoted

May 2015Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid

  • Led the teams overseeing monetization, retention, onboarding/activation, authentication, social graph, and international expansion. Built and owned the full growth stack — including billing systems, CRM tools, house-ad platform, and contest infrastructure — while driving ARR to $100M and scaling MAU from 20M to 50M. Partnered across BD, Marketing, and Engineering to accelerate global growth.
  • ▪ Expanded internationally: led market entry into Indonesia, Malaysia, and India — growing non-U.S. traffic from 20% to >80%.
  • ▪ Built custom billing infrastructure (Armstrong), to launch direct subscriptions outside Apple/Google stores; scaled to 199 geos and 40 currencies.
  • ▪ Shipped Fortumo direct carrier billing integration in 25 countries to broaden payment access in regions with low credit card adoption.
  • ▪ Designed and scaled an engagement engine (CRM, ads, content, promos, contests), powering 100+ global contests including partnerships with artists and NBC’s The Voice.
  • ▪ Introduced a freemium ads model as a new revenue stream across all apps.
  • ▪ Overhauled infrastructure load-balancing across data centers, reducing outages and improving reliability.
  • ▪ Launched Sing! as an Apple TV title, pioneering living-room karaoke experiences.
Product ManagementGrowth Strategy

Sr. Product Manager & Team Lead

Promoted

Jan 2015May 2015 · 4 mos · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid

  • Led the PM team responsible for core engagement (music creation and sharing) across portfolio of seven mobile apps (average 4.8 App Store rating). Accountable for P&L.
  • ▪ Launched a suite of innovative creative features in Sing! — including Lyrics/Parts (selectable song sections), group video collaborations (auto-mixed user performances), and audio/video filters — enabling singers to create expressive, shareable video content and fueling viral distribution across the internet.
  • ▪ Overhauled new user onboarding and activation for singers, improving first-session engagement by shortening the time singers reach their "aha" moment.
  • ▪ Introduced trial subscriptions, scaling to 6K new trials per day and lifting ARR by $X million.
Product ManagementUser Engagement

Product Manager

Feb 2014Jan 2015 · 11 mos · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid

  • Product owner for mobile music apps Guitar! and AutoRap, enabling users to record and remix licensed music using their smartphones. Responsible for driving engagement, monetization, and cross-platform product strategy.
  • ▪ Overhauled live operations systems across the company, including KPI tracking, on-call protocols, and investigation processes, improving speed and reliability of issue resolution.
  • ▪ Defined and executed the product roadmap across iOS, Android, and Web, coordinating cross-functional engineering and design teams.
  • ▪ Led a major functionality redesign of content discovery, introducing tags, topics, and recency ranking to boost user engagement.
  • ▪ Directed a two-week sprint to build Guitar! for Apple retail demo devices, securing placement in Apple Stores and expanding visibility of the product.
Product ManagementCross-Platform Strategy

Zynga

Product Manager

Aug 2013Feb 2014 · 6 mos · San Francisco, CA · On-site

  • Joined the FarmVille studio during company pivot from Facebook games to mobile.
  • ▪ Owned monetization, notifications, and admin systems for pre-production mobile FarmVille title.
  • ▪ Provided all-hands product support for Zynga’s first mobile launch, CastleVille Legends.
  • ▪ Led competitive intelligence, analyzing the top 15 mobile gaming competitors weekly, projecting growth and revenue, and producing detailed teardowns of features and player flows.
Product ManagementMarket Analysis

University of california, berkeley, haas school of business

Graduate Student Instructor

Aug 2012May 2013 · 9 mos · Berkeley, CA · On-site

  • Graduate Student Instructor for UGBA10, working for David Robinson. Led four sections over two semesters. Received Outstanding GSI award.

Gree, inc.

MBA Intern - Developer Relations

Jun 2012Aug 2012 · 2 mos · San Francisco, CA · On-site

  • Joined shortly after GREE’s acquisition of OpenFeint. Worked with dev rel teams to accelerate adoption and strengthen go-to-market materials.
  • ▪ Helped sales team prioritize 150+ developer leads by building a tool to track implementation challenges.
  • ▪ Authored a 240-page industry best practices playbook to guide developer integrations.
  • ▪ Created a library of consulting-style templates to improve sales pitches and partnership conversations.

Sk planet

Consultant - Product Marketing

Jan 2012Jun 2012 · 5 mos · Seoul, South Korea · Hybrid

  • Consulted with SK Planet’s mobile app development group on their US market expansion. Included three weeks on-site in Seoul with product managers and developers. (Part of Berkeley-Haas IBD program.)
  • ▪ Partnered with PMs to reposition and redesign MintMarket, SK Planet’s marketplace app, for U.S. consumer expectations.
  • ▪ Delivered training and advisory materials to improve the client’s product ideation and development workflow, creating repeatable practices for future app launches.

Google

Account Manager, Online Sales

Jul 2006Jul 2011 · 5 yrs · Mountain View, CA · On-site

  • Supported Google’s growth in the Entertainment & Media vertical, with a focus on the rapidly emerging online gaming ecosystem (freemium, mobile, and browser-based models). Partnered with major studios and publishers to define how Google sold ads into new digital business models while shaping internal sales and policy practices.
  • ▪ Managed $8M portfolio across 60+ global gaming clients (Riot Games, Roblox, Nexon, DeNA), exceeding revenue targets for 6+ consecutive quarters.
  • ▪ Co-owned quarterly growth forecasting with Sales Finance, shaping strategy for new revenue streams in free-to-play and mobile gaming.
  • ▪ Authored a 300-page sales playbook for gaming, adopted globally as a training guide; received Google Gold Award for identifying mid-market revenue opportunities.
  • ▪ Represented Google at industry conferences (E3, GDC), building credibility in the gaming and entertainment ecosystem.
  • ▪ Served as liaison between Sales and Policy: aligned ad guidelines across AdWords, YouTube, and DoubleClick post-M&A; led summit with adult industry leaders and Legal on child safety and online speech.
  • ▪ Trained all new hires on ad policy and editorial standards, ensuring compliance while supporting revenue growth.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2011Jan 2013

UCLA

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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