Make decisions confidently.

New York · Working globally

I shape complex systems into tools people actually use.

I'm Richie, a product strategist and operator who starts with the numbers, gets close to the customer, and helps teams turn the right insight into something useful.

  • Research-led
  • Commercially grounded
  • Built to ship
Portrait of Richie Lin
Available for select projects
Product strategyCustomer growthData & insightsUser researchExperimentation

Capabilities

Where I'm most useful.

I work best where product, customer behavior, and commercial outcomes meet.

01

Product strategy & growth

Find the sharpest market position, decide what to build first, and connect the roadmap to measurable growth.

02

Customer research & UX

See where people hesitate, simplify the journey, and turn real customer behavior into better product decisions.

03

Experiments & analytics

Design focused tests, read the signal in the data, and keep the changes that move customers and the business.

04

Go-to-market enablement

Give sales and marketing a clear story, practical tools, and a message that matches what the product actually does.

Selected work

Evidence over assumptions.

Two examples of turning customer friction into practical product and growth decisions.

A product-focused creative workstation

Romin · Go-to-market strategy

Turned product detail into a reason to buy.

Reframed the product around customer outcomes, aligned engineering and marketing, and tested the story in-market.

15%sales lift
25%better ad engagement
Read the case study
A colorful poke bowl

Poke Inn · Ordering experience

Made the easiest choice the best-selling one.

Used ordering data to remove choice fatigue, reorganize the menu, and package popular items into clearer combinations.

30%combo take-rate lift
3ordering channels improved
Read the case study

How I work

A simple path to results.

The exact work changes. The logic stays clear.

01

Find the friction

I combine user conversations, product behavior, and business data to isolate the problem worth solving.

02

Shape the plan

I turn the evidence into a focused direction, define the bets, and make the next decisions easy to understand.

03

Ship and learn

I work across the team to launch, measure what changed, and feed the learning into the next version.

Working together

Have a product problem that needs a clearer answer?

If you're building something new—or trying to make an existing experience work harder—let's compare notes.

Let's talk richielin02@gmail.com