Xinying Cheah

Head of Product at Grab

Singapore, Singapore

About

Product leader with a strong interest in problem solving for consumer technology and start-ups. Specialised in understanding users and building the right user experiences, problem solving, nurturing teams, and product strategy. Experienced in marketplaces, e-commerce, health tech, risk and fraud prevention, front end tech stacks and designing delightful user experiences.

Experience

  • Grab (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • Head of Product
      Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

      GrabFood and GrabMart consumer experiences

    • Senior Product Management Leader
      Feb 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Overseeing GrabFood and GrabMart consumer funnel, including discovery, ordering, checkout, in transit, and post checkout experiences.

    • Principal Product Manager
      Oct 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Experimented in the Group Buy space, expanding into tier 2 cities for groceries deliveries. Owned the consumer conversion funnel for GrabMart, leading key changes to make the consumer experience more intuitive for mart shopping.

  • Senior Product Manager at SP Group
    Nov 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Product managed the largest shift towards consolidating all payments processing through a central layer so that SP and all its subsidiaries could channel transactions through a single pass through layer before interacting with the gateway. This reduced multiple points of integration and complexity for the entire company and centralized control and auditability.

  • Senior Product Manager at Shopee
    Dec 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs

    • Product Manager for the Payments and Logistics portfolio • In charge of the entire front end stack for the payments flow as well as product shipping. • On top of that, also in charge of risk and fraud features to ensure trust and safety on the Shopee platform, and to prevent fraudulent transactions and abusive behavior. • Also assigned overall front end program management and release deployment manager duties with monthly release cycles for the entire app release. • Key coordinator with various business and engineering stakeholders both regionally as well as within the 7 surrounding countries where Shopee operates.

  • Team Lead, Product and Business Development at Zensorium
    Sep 2011 - Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    • Team lead of the Product Development Unit, in charge of requirements gathering, technical specifications, UI and UX designs and user outreach. • Product focus on ‘Tinké’ and ‘Being’, a range of fitness and wellness monitoring devices. Involved in the entire product life cycle, from conceptualization to product launch. • Awards won by ‘Tinké’: 2014 CES Innovation Awards Honoree, 2015 Edison Awards Gold, and 2014 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award. • Program managed a team of inhouse and external software engineers to develop both the iOS and Android apps for Tinké (available on app store), and also product managed the development of Zensorium’s website (Zensorium.com). • Co-holder of the patent “Method and apparatus for deriving a health index for determining cardiovascular health”. • Also acted as primary market research analyst, in charge of requirements gathering for B2C and B2B projects. • Lead clinical trials design and execution for various R&D phase projects.

  • Content Development Manager at Personal E-Motion Pte Ltd
    Jan 2009 - Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • Employee No.7 • Spearheaded the concept of gamification into KooBits, the flagship e-book platform of Personal E-Motion, which became its Unique Selling Point. • Oversaw transition of e-book software from hardware install model to subscription based model. • Program managed a team of 3 designers and worked on UAT for IOS apps. • Spearheaded data driven content planning and development based on usage analytics. • Closed key sales deals to enter the special needs schools market. • Handled creation of marketing materials and promotion events.