Rachel Chen

Special Projects @ Fractional AI - We’re hiring!

New York, New York, United States

About

A puzzle lover, creative thinker, and experienced leader who enjoys digging into all sorts of problems and coming up with innovative, data-backed solutions. To me, leadership means empowering everyone around you to be the best they can be.

Experience

  • Special Projects at Fractional AI
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Director of Strategy & Marketing at Tumble
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    - Strategy and operations, GTM strategy - Website development and product management - Internal tools and integrations, AI Agents - Growth marketing, lifecycle marketing - Customer experience, customer support, and customer retention - Data & Analytics - AI enabled tools and analytics

  • The Farmer's Dog (5 yrs 4 mos)
    • Director of New Ventures
      Dec 2021 - May 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

      - Head of corporate strategy and corporate development - Lead M&A sourcing, diligence, execution, and integration efforts - Collaborate with executive team to develop new ventures growth strategy - Manage cross-functional execution of key initiatives for new ventures

    • Special Operations
      Mar 2021 - Dec 2021 · 10 mos

      - Lead initiatives across Talent Acquisition, HR, Data Strategy & Insights, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Operations, and more

    • Data Product Manager, Data Strategy & Insights
      Apr 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - Ensure that all teams across the org have the insights they need to make optimal decisions - Guide the company's overall approach to data strategy and execution of company objectives - Collaborate cross-functionally with business teams and data analysts on analytics related to customer behaviors, finance, operations, marketing, and digital product - Work with data scientists on forecasting, optimization, and NLP topic models - Work with data engineers to make sure that we have the data we need to support analytics, data science, and operationalization of data across functions

  • VP, Private Equity Partners at BlackRock
    Aug 2013 - Oct 2017 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    - Work in deal teams through all aspects of the investment process, from initial screening and due diligence, through approval, to post-investment monitoring and reporting; closed 14 direct co-investments in which we invested ~$700 million - Identify merits and risks of the investment through due diligence process and research, build financial models in Excel to analyze various cases and sensitivities, and present findings to the Investment Committee - Cover four major pension fund client relationships through day-to-day interactions and bi-weekly and quarterly presentations - Redesigned a model to more efficiently monitor our direct co-investments’ financial performance and to generate visual outputs used in both internal and external quarterly review presentations - Lead annual summer intern recruitment and full-time analyst hiring processes

  • Private Equity Associate at Teacher Retirement System of Texas
    Mar 2016 - Oct 2016 · 8 mos

    As a part of my responsibilities at BlackRock, I was sent on a six-month rotation to work with the private equity team at TRS, one of our largest clients. - Worked in deal teams to assess private equity direct co-investments - Organized a one-week roadshow in New York during which a subset of the BlackRock and TRS teams met with high-priority private equity firms to both understand the firms’ strategies and to explain the TRS/BlackRock relationship - Acted as a liaison between TRS and BlackRock Private Equity Partners to make sure all parties were aware of pipeline investments and workflow timing