Rio Akasaka

Product Manager

Tokyo, Japan19 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led AI integration in high-traffic user products.
Delivered significant cost savings in Google Workspace.
Passionate advocate for accessibility in product design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in B2C SaaS and user-centered design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser Experience DesignUser ExperienceHuman-computer InteractionUser Interface

Other Skills

User-centered DesignSoftware DevelopmentAnalyticsExperimentationResearchSkills DiscoveryTopic ModelingAJAXC#PrototypingWeb ApplicationsPrototypeUser Interface DesignSoftware DesignComputer Science

About

Depth: Senior PM with direct hands-on experience integrating, evaluating and launching AI inside a 1B+ MAU user product. Background in user-centered design (IDEO) with CS degree (Stanford). Breadth: Shipped features in ads (YouTube), consumer (Google Maps), and enterprise (Google Drive). Experienced in delivering growth and developing good metrics and experiments. Passionate about accessibility and building great products that all users love. Fluent in French and Japanese.

Experience

Google

4 roles

Senior Product Manager, Google Maps

Promoted

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

PM lead for Gemini in Maps navigation
Improved successful arrival outcomes by XX%
Launched glanceable directions for all travel modes, on the lock screen on iOS, Android, increasing usage by XXX%
Launched crosswalks on the map across US, stair-free routing and stair icons in walking

Product ManagementUser Experience DesignUser-centered Design

Product Manager, Google Workspace

Promoted

Oct 2015 – Jan 2023 · 7 yrs 3 mos

Shipped platform product features with $50MM+ storage cost savings; search products improvements return 24+ years of time savings.
Product manager on Google Drive (1B+ MAU) platform and core experience. Responsible for iOS, Android and Web frontends features including search, offline and notifications. Previously responsible for enterprise admin controls, dashboards and reporting.
Previously, 20% PM on Google Maps Accessibility.

Product ManagementUser ExperienceSoftware Development

Associate Product Manager

Jul 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Led analytics and experimentation for Google Maps, increasing quarter-on-quarter experimentation volume within the org by 47%.
Launched migration of TrueView in-search ad format, second largest video ads migration.

AnalyticsExperimentationProduct Management

Associate Product Manager Intern

Jun 2012 – Sep 2012 · 3 mos · Tokyo, Japan

Worked on YouTube captions. Launched inline captions editor, new CC icon, captions on iPad. Featured on CNET. Wrote blog posts for Google Students.

User ExperienceProduct Management

Ideo

Summer Intern

Jun 2011 – Sep 2011 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, CA

As a summer intern in the Knowledge Sharing group, I worked on internal tools related to skills discovery using topic modeling.

Skills DiscoveryTopic Modeling

Stanford university

Master's in Computer Science

Sep 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Concentration on Human Computer Interaction. Head Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Human Computer Interaction, Fall 2011, Fall 2012. Research with Sony.

Human-computer InteractionResearch

Velquest corporation

User Interface Engineer

Jun 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

I worked as a user-interface engineer working primarily on front-end UI with AJAX and backend infrastructure in C# to develop VelQuest's leading-edge web-based pharmaceutical lab management software.

User InterfaceAJAXC#

Swarthmore fire and protective association

Firefighter-EMT

Oct 2005 – May 2009 · 3 yrs 7 mos

I completed training as a nationally certified Firefighter I and II and followed up with a certificate as an Emergency Medical Technician in the state of Pennsylvania.