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Tris Warkentin

Product Manager

San Francisco, California, United States23 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led launch of Google Bard and PaLM.
  • Spearheaded AI integration in Google Ads.
  • 20 years of bridging AI research and applications.
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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementArtificial Intelligence (ai)Machine Learning

Other Skills

Research and Development (R&D)Cloud ComputingAgile MethodologiesInformation ArchitectureFrameMakerRubyNetworkingSaaSUsabilityUsability TestingHTMLJavaScriptXMLDITAAutomation

About

Product Management executive focused on the future of AI, leading new research products at Google DeepMind. I previously led the PM function for Google Brain, the company's top AI research lab and the birthplace of the Transformer. In that role, I named and launched Google Bard, and also led the launch of PaLM, Imagen, Parti, and many other breakthrough generative AI technologies. Prior to leading Brain PM, I led PM teams for TensorFlow, focusing on AI productionization and MLOps. During my first five years at Google, I spearheaded the integration of machine learning into Google Ads, focusing on targeting automation and overall ML-driven ads quality to create more than $10B in ARR growth for Google. I began my career in AI in 2001, when I joined a small start-up spun out of MIT Media Lab for Artificial Intelligence: iPhrase Technologies (later acquired by IBM). After catching the AI bug, I have dedicated most of the last 20 years to bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world applications.

Experience

23 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
11 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Google

5 roles

Director of Product Management, Google Deepmind

Promoted

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • In Google Deepmind, I am focused on creating completely new capabilities for humanity through disruptive AI research that accelerates technology development and reaches billions of users. We are working to make the next generation of AI even more revolutionary than this one!
  • Until Brain and Deepmind merged to become Google Deepmind in May 2023, I led the Product Management function for the Brain team in Google Research, comprised of ~700 top AI researchers worldwide. Brain launched many of the breakthrough AI research discoveries powering the current AI revolution, including:
  • Transformers
  • TensorFlow
  • TPUs
  • JAX
  • T5, the world's first large language model
  • Seq2Seq models
  • FLAN: Instruction Tuning, a key to modern LLMs
  • During my tenure at Brain, I had the opportunity to lead PM for some of the most interesting generative AI launches of 2022 and 2023, such as:
  • Imagen diffusion models
  • Parti autoregressive text-to-image models
  • Imagen-video, megapixel-scale text-to-video
  • Phenaki, long-form generative text-to-video
  • LaMDA
  • AI Test Kitchen
  • PaLM 1 & 2
  • Bard
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Research and Development (R&D)Machine LearningProduct Management

Group Product Manager, Google Brain

Nov 2021Oct 2022 · 11 mos

  • Product Management leader for Google Brain, Google's world-leading AI Research lab. We undertake fundamental research and create technologies that are step-function changes in ML, science, human-computer interaction, and beyond.
  • The research portfolio for Brain includes major Google-scale projects:
  • Multipod Models, including MUM, which we announced at I/0 in 2020 (https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-mum/)
  • LaMDA, our breakthrough conversational research (https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/)
  • Research ML infrastructure, including JAX, Pathways, and more (e.g., https://blog.google/technology/ai/introducing-pathways-next-generation-ai-architecture)
  • Magenta, Google's approach to marrying music and art with AI (https://magenta.tensorflow.org)
  • We are hiring! Please reach out if you are interested in cutting-edge ML research PM roles.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningProduct Management

Group Product Manager, TensorFlow Ecosystem

Promoted

Oct 2020Oct 2022 · 2 yrs

  • I lead a team of PMs who build the Google ML ecosystem, including many industry-leading ML tools and services:
  • TensorBoard -- http://tensorboard.dev
  • TensorFlow Extended (TFX) -- http://tensorflow.org/tfx
  • TensorFlow Enterprise -- http://cloud.google.com/tensorflow-enterprise
  • TensorFlow Hub -- http://tfhub.dev
  • TensorFlow Serving -- http://github.com/tensorflow/serving
  • AutoML Research and Products
  • TPU usability and scalability
  • I'm also a very active PH Hiring Committee participant and frequent interviewer. If you're interested in Google PM -- feel free to reach out! I am more than happy to help.
Machine LearningProduct ManagementCloud Computing

Senior Product Manager

Oct 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr

  • I lead the PM team for TensorFlow Extended (TFX), the production-scale Machine Learning platform for Google-scale applications. My team drives research, production, and infrastructure for Alphabet's biggest AI bets, from YouTube to Search, Waymo, Ads, and beyond.
  • You can also try out TFX yourself -- we are Open Source! Learn more and run some examples at https://www.tensorflow.org/tfx
Machine LearningProduct Management

Senior Product Manager

Jun 2014Oct 2019 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • Lead PM for Display Ads Quality at Google, working on optimization and automation products driven by some of the most complex Machine Learning systems in the world =).
Machine LearningProduct Management

Demandtec, an ibm company

Software Engineering Manager, Information Architecture

Apr 2010May 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo

American well, inc.

Sr. Technical Writer

Jun 2007Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Focused compliance, inc.

Director of Professional Services

Mar 2006Jun 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

Boston communications group, inc.

Sr. Documentation Consultant

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Iphrase technologies

Technical Writer

Jan 2001Jan 2002 · 1 yr

Education

Kenyon College

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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