Lily Huang

Product Director

Branch D

Mar 2026 - Current (5 months)

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Software Product Manager

StructureCraft

Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 1 month)

Senior Product Manager

Branch D

Jul 2024 - Mar 2026 (1 year 9 months)

• Led the 0–1 development of Branch Concept Lite as solo PM, a real-time structural, and carbon analysis tool that automates early-stage design trade-offs, reducing traditional optimization cycles from days to minutes. • Driving the path to Product-Market Fit by distilling complex user interviews, discovery sessions, etc. into roadmaps. Leading the strategy to convert users into trials, pilots, and partnerships to drive PMF and growth. • accelerated the product and development cycle by implementing AI prototyping workflows into our internal process. • collaborated daily with a team of 6-8 developers, managing both the product and design team, and driving alignment across internal and external stakeholders.

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Architect

Lily Huang Consulting

Apr 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)

Director of Product

Assembly Corp

Jun 2023 - Apr 2024 (11 months)

• Led competitive analysis, site review, and market mapping of apartment sizes to the company's first standardization of apartment unit designs informed by fabrication optimizations and laid the framework for standardized designs that is at the core of the business strategy for scaling. • Led a team to develop BIM workflows that enhanced digital asset coordination between external partners. Conducting user experience and insights through various mediums that surfaced critical pain points for 15+ project teams, translating findings into actionable development priorities. • Led a team to execute on Laneway and Garden Suite projects, developing IFC drawings, finish packages, and client presentations.

Product Design Director

Juno

Apr 2022 - Apr 2023 (1 year 1 month)

• Led resolution to ‘tech debt’ in design workflow, reduced model lag times by 60% and minimized the primary source of errors in quantity take-offs by developing and refining BIM model workflows with a technical team and 10+ consultants. • Reduced project soft costs per project by creating fabrication drawings in-house that reduced design times and delivered early packages for advanced mass timber and facade scope for early bidding. Innovation R&D • Led cost studies including research on new products on the market and reviewing cost opportunities, product prioritization. • Co-led supplier RFPs with multiple vendors to evaluate value for product integration. Worked cross functionally to develop evaluation metrics and presented recommendatio

Associate Director - Building Innovations

Sidewalk Labs

Jan 2020 - Mar 2022 (2 years 3 months)

• Led road mapping, planning and go-to-market plan of full cycle of product development for facades and advanced from R&D status to market readiness in 18 months time, on schedule. This effort used agile processes, leading design and process retros with 15+ cross functional teams and consultants and consolidating into feature prioritization and sprints. • Oversaw the development of MVP workflows of semi-automated drawing and BOM production which was on track to reduce product time from 4-6 weeks to 1-2 weeks with an anticipated 35% reduction of consultant fee cost. This feature would allow the business to scale its project pipeline. • Led a user journey mapping and retro session documenting workflow connecting product “rules-based documenta

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Founder

East Pavilion

Feb 2018 - Feb 2022 (4 years 1 month)

• Creating a clearly defined brand positioning in the cultural home wares market, including research on markets and persona building. • Led the design style guide to enable clear customer messaging and consistent brand experience.

Project Architect

KPMB Architects

Sep 2017 - Jan 2020 (2 years 5 months)

Managed complex architectural projects for a variety of public and private-sector clients with an emphasis on institutional, cultural (including a Class A gallery), and corporate workspaces. Managed a consultant team to deliver commercial renovation space of 24,000 square foot from start to finish. Led the design and study of a key public space in downtown Toronto which included 1.2 million sq ft of commercial space for the Bay Adelaide Centre. Spearheaded design review package leading to a required but challenging variance successfully approved by the City. Led design of classrooms including planning and executing user group research in pursuit of strategic space programming for the Brearley School in New York, USA. Select Projects: • Ja

Architect Design Lead

KPMB Architects

Jul 2011 - Dec 2017 (6 years 6 months)

Select Projects: • April 2017 - December 2017, Bay Adelaide North Tower, Toronto, ON, Canada • June 2015 - April 2016, The Brearley School, New York, NY, USA • February 2012 - May 2014, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada • July 2011 - May 2014, Ponderosa Commons Phase 1 & Phase 2, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

Architectural Designer

GRAFT GmbH

Jan 2010 - Jan 2011 (1 year 1 month)

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Design Construction Coordinator

th Venice Architecture Biennale Installation

May 2008 - Aug 2008 (4 months)

Worked on construction documentation with designer An Te Liu on “Cloud” installation in Arsenale

Architectural Intern

Sauerbruch hutton Architekten

Jan 2008 - Dec 2008 (1 year)

Worked on 1st prize design competition of office tower in Dusseldorf.

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Architectural Intern

Tom Pen Architect

Apr 2007 - Jul 2007 (4 months)

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