Daniel Cheng

Director of Product, AI

San Francisco Bay Area

About

People-focused product leader with deep expertise in data-driven product strategy, and building high-performing teams. Known for driving innovation through advanced analytics and delivering complex, multi-stakeholder products that solve real customer problems with measurable results.

Experience

  • Director of Product, AI at Yext
    2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Leading product teams for Scout, an AI Search Visibility and Competitive Intelligence platform helping brands adapt to LLM-driven search with benchmarking, sentiment analysis, and agentic recommendations. Focus areas include Generative AI, LLMs, agentic AI systems, and data-driven product experiences. Shipped AI/ML features that translate unstructured model outputs into actionable insights for marketers.

  • Director of Product at Eventbrite
    2023 - 2025 · 2 yrs

    Head of Eventbrite’s Ads Product, overseeing strategy and leading PM teams for Ads Relevance & Targeting, Advertiser Tools, and Ad Formats & Inventory.

  • Principal Product Manager at Splunk
    2018 - 2023 · 5 yrs

    Product leader for Splunk's Admin Console, a next-generation IAM platform for configuring user and role management, app management, data management, entitlements, API keys, and auditing across all of Splunk's diverse $4B product portfolio. Launched Splunk’s first cloud-native public REST APIs within the next-gen developer portal, scaling to hundreds of endpoints and facilitating third-party app integrations.

  • COO, Co-founder at mNectar
    2013 - 2018 · 5 yrs

    mNectar is a mobile app streaming company that launched Playable app sampling for the mobile ecosystem. Playables are active streams of the mobile app that allow users to fully engage, play, and interact with the app without having to download the app itself. MobilityWare acquired mNectar's technology in 2018. - Lead mNectar’s mobile partnerships, product development, and revenue growth. - Launched mobile's first streaming playable advertising product across the largest publishers and exchanges on mobile. - Customers included Baidu, MachineZone, Kabam, Zynga, GREE, Electronic Arts, DeNA and M&C Saatchi. - Delivered product and key partnerships that resulted in Series A funding by New Enterprise Associates, Correlations Ventures, Fenox VC, XG Ventures and independent mobile app developers.

  • Director Business Development at Epsilon
    2011 - 2013 · 2 yrs

    I relocated to NYC to lead all new East Coast developer partnerships and strategy for Epsilon (previously ValueClick), through the acquisition of Greystripe. - Secured multi-million dollar partnership with the largest developers to date. - Worked closely with Ad Sales team to develop a cohesive strategy for securing new partnerships. - Trained and on-boarded new Business Development team members. Acquired by Publicis Groupe for $4.4B in 2019