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Molly Chen

Technical Product Manager

About Me

Hello there!

I'm an ex-Microsoftie now working as a product manager at Octave, building tools for therapists to deliver premium, effective, and accessible mental healthcare.

I'm an engineer at heart and a product manager by experience. My overarching career goal is to leverage technology to help others live their best lives.

Education

Duke University

Specs:
BS in Computer Science, Minor in Psychology

Tech stuff:
Duke Technology Scholars, Rewriting the Code, HackDuke

Cool projects:
Zingo, Ethical Tech, Lend a Hand, Graducate

Experiences

Octave

Product Manager
  • Leading a remote-first team of 10 engineers as the only product manager on the therapist experience team.
  • Designed a consolidated Google calendar app using Cobalt RPA and Nylas Calendar API, decreasing schedule management upkeep by 75%, and adding 2000 new timeslots from 600 adopted providers to booking pages within the first month of launch.
  • Built end-to-end onboarding workflows using Tellescope CRM and Felicity RPA for a forecasted volume of 5000+ providers enrolling in a B2B2C payor partnership, streamlining the hiring workflow for TA teams to reduce manual handoff by 50%.
  • Led the design and launch of a database supporting provider biographies on client booking pages (150K+ monthly visits), ingesting 50+ data fields to generate 15k provider bios weekly, and serving consumer requests at 99.9% availability.
  • Streamlined 3+ legacy systems by building B2C end-to-end onboarding workflows in Tellescope CRM, syncing hourly with the provider database, partnering with engineering on monitoring and diff alerts, and saving $400K annually in licensing costs.

Microsoft

Technical Program Manager II
  • Orchestrating data ingestion platforms to enable the $50B Azure business to transact commercial offerings via the Commercial Marketplace.
  • Contributed to a 500%+ growth in Marketplace adoption from FY21-FY23. Leading cross-functional teams of 50+ members to orchestrate data ingestion for Azure products into Commerce.

Matcha

Technical Lead
  • Provided product strategy and technical consulting for a 15-person startup in the mental health space.
  • Created and executed product roadmap for a relationship-based AI-powered algorithm to match clients with therapists. Led the engineering, design, and product teams to launch MVP website, securing $0.25M in seed funding.

Microsoft

Software Engineer II
  • Service owner for 2 big-data ingestion services that manage $4B+ in first-party commercial product revenue.
  • Slashed most-used page load time by 75% by optimizing C# .NET query performance and adding 10 new alerts in Azure Application Insights to detect performance anomalies.
  • Drove cross-collaboration with Shanghai team to migrate all price-publishing services from Azure Cloud Services to Azure Kubernetes in 3 months. Created documentation to guide the team through Docker and YML setup, deployment, and testing.

Skills

  • AI Tools: Claude Code, Cursor, Figma Make, Agentic AI, RPA, CRM
  • Languages: Python, C#, Java, TypeScript, PowerShell, Bash
  • Frameworks: Angular, Vue
  • Cloud and Infra: Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, AKS
  • Data: SQL, PostgreSQL, S3, Kusto
  • Analytics: Tableau, Iterable, Hex, Mixpanel
  • Industries: Healthcare, Big Tech, Startups (Series A-C), B2B, B2C, Legal
  • Leadership: Cross-functional team leadership, stakeholder management