Lisa Crofoot

Research PM at Anthropic

Canada

About

Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Research PM Lead for models. I bridge frontier AI research and real-world impact, shipping and shaping Claude models for users and developers.

  • Amazon (3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Principal Product Manager - Technical
      Mar 2023 - Dec 2023 · 10 mos

      Product lead for Amazon's Large Language Model (LLM) development platform. I own the roadmap for infrastructure and tools supporting data preparation, training, evaluation, and release for LLM pre-training, fine-tuning (SFT), and in-context learning (ICL).

    • Senior Product Manager - Technical
      Jul 2020 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Product lead for cross-organizational Alexa AI CX quality program and Entity Resolution organization. Key wins include: > Delivered 10% relative reduction in defects year-over-year for Alexa customers in 15 regions worldwide. Influenced across 3 VP organizations to define goals and prioritize AI advances to improve Alexa's accuracy. > Defined three-year vision, strategy, and goals to transition Alexa entity resolution to an ML-based vector search solution. Grew adoption of ML search platform from 15% to 50% of ER traffic while maintaining 4.2/5 CSAT.

  • Senior Technical Product Manager - Intern at Amazon
    Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 · 3 mos

    I delivered a proposal for a new service and data pipeline to learn, aggregate, and vend entity popularity signals. Collaborated with 4 stakeholder teams to define use cases and secure resourcing to perform experiments.

  • Dynamic Structures (4 yrs 8 mos)
    • Systems Engineer
      Apr 2016 - Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      I lead System Engineering for the detailed and final design phase of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Enclosure. When built, TMT will be the largest observatory telescope in the world. I delivered technical requirements, risk and mitigation plan, testing and validation plan, and failure mode analysis.

    • Mechanical Engineer
      Nov 2015 - Apr 2016 · 6 mos

      I designed the ride vehicle concept and modelled vehicle dynamics for a unique new attraction (Universal Studio's Mario Kart).

    • Project Lead
      Nov 2013 - Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      I lead team of 3 engineers to deliver industry-first prototype of robotic optical polishing system (company seed investment). I demonstrated nanometer-level polishing accuracy and formed University partnership to continue R&D.