Lehua is a senior product management executive with experience driving AI-powered strategy and exponential revenue growth for early to mid-stage software companies. She has delivered solutions to market across multiple industries, including supply chain technology, digital media, automotive, ecommerce, logistics, and gaming.
An expert in B2B SaaS product management and AI-driven innovation, Lehua is called on by Boards and C-level leaders to scale product development teams, launch AI initiatives, build marketplace platforms, and drive product-led-growth strategies. She serves in fractional Head of Product positions, and provides coaching services for product and engineering teams navigating complex transformations and needing skills development.
Lehua leads with expertise in the following areas:
- AI/ML Product Strategy
- 0-1 Product Innovation
- Product-Led Growth
- Strategic Roadmap Development
- Go To Market Strategy
- SaaS Growth Loops
- API-First Platform Design
- Global Product & Design Teams
- Agile Software Development
- Customer Experience Strategy
- Product Operations
During her career, Lehua has served as:
Founder, AI Startup Imua Nui – Lehua is building a multi-tenant AI platform to help service-based SMBʻs improve their operations and reduce opex. She developed a comprehensive go-to-market plan including ICP definition, pricing strategy, and monetization model. She led user research and field interviews to validate use cases and engineered a scalable multi-tenant, agent architecture with customizable prompt templates.
Senior Director of Product, Sphera (acquired SupplyShift) – Lehua led global product and design teams, integrating sustainability into risk management and ensuring extensibility across Spheraʻs portfolio. She drove AI-powered supply chain transparency platforms, improving risk monitoring and compliance. Under her leadership, cross-sell increased by 10% through strategic roadmap development balancing feasibility, innovation, and impact. She led R&D on the highly regulated supply chain industry, contributing to 50% revenue growth by aligning products with emerging regulations. Lehua optimized delivery processes to 85% predictability and boosted NRR to 100% and CSAT by 10% through comprehensive CX initiatives.
Head of Product, SupplyShift (acquired by Sphera) – Lehua provided board-facing product leadership, contributing to due diligence that facilitated the successful acquisition by Sphera. She reshaped the product team, implementing a Product-Led Growth strategy that generated a 25% increase in Product Qualified Leads. She introduced Product Operations and data science products to drive efficiency and launched the company’s first AI features through ML ingestion.
Director of Product, Carvana – Lehua built a $70M repair service business with a network of repair partners across 300 markets. She launched an API-first repair service platform, leveraging automated workflows to reduce third-party repair costs by 40%. She led multiple pilots and user research sessions that resulted in a nationwide rollout supporting 8-figure repair volumes. She stood up instrumentation resulting in 35% workflow conversions and increased confidence in the team’s impact analysis.
Director of Product Management, Jyve – Lehua led product strategy and execution for this growth startup, building a new business unit for a two-sided marketplace connecting grocery stores and CPG brands with gig economy workers. She productized and operationalized a 300-person business unit to develop and launch a $20M ARR B2B marketplace. She tested ML models to introduce blind ordering that reduced time to manually order merchandise by 50%. She increased margins by 26% through implementation of a dynamic pricing engine and product-led growth strategy.
VP of Product, Group Nine Media (Discovery Inc.) – Lehua took on executive leadership reporting to the CPO, owning strategy and operations to facilitate the successful partnership between Discovery Inc. and Group Nine Media, monetizing and growing digital media brands including Thrillist, NowThis, TheDodo, and Seeker. She built and managed a team of 15 product managers and designers partnering with 50 engineers. She developed the first ML models to predict content engagement, virality, and show success. She launched a native ad platform, which drove 63% of Discovery’s ad revenue in 2016, growing monthly video views from 6M to 1B across multiple platforms.
Lehua has held other product leadership positions with Discovery Inc., True Botanicals, ShopSuey, and GREE.
Lehua holds a BS in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Cruz. She completed the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford Graduate School of Business and is certified in Supervised Machine Learning and AI Product Management.