Lily Huang

Lily Huang

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Product Director, AEC Tech | Licensed Architect | Prefabrication Systems | Ex-Alphabet (Sidewalk Labs)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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  • Branch D
    Product Director
    Branch D
    Mar 2026 - Current (5 months)
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    Software Product Manager
    StructureCraft
    Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 1 month)
  • Branch D
    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)
  • Assembly Corp
    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.
  • Juno
    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
  • Sidewalk Labs
    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.
  • KPMB Architects
    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
  • KPMB Architects
    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
  • GRAFT GmbH
    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
  • Sauerbruch hutton Architekten
    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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  • University of Toronto  University College
    University of Toronto - University College
    University of Toronto University College
  • University of Toronto
    Bachelor of Arts - BA with Honors, Specialist Degree in Architecture, Minor in Environmental Studies
    University of Toronto
  • Harvard University Graduate School of Design
    Masters of Architecture
    Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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    Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
    Feb 2012 - May 2014 (2 years 4 months)
    This ambitious project is a key initiative by UBC’s Alumni Society to develop a new home in a prominent location on campus. The Centre houses all the activities related to present and future alumni. At grade it is highly transparent and welcoming, with a café, fireplace lounge, study spaces and library open to visitors, alumni, students and faculty.
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    Ponderosa Commons, University of British Columbia
    Jul 2011 - May 2014 (2 years 11 months)
    Ponderosa Commons is the first in a series of high-density, mixed-use Hubs at the University of British Columbia. The concept integrates student housing, academic and social space, and retail services to produce a vibrant, engaging 24/7 precinct on UBC’s large commuter campus.
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