Atmospheric creative workspace
LINH (PHUONG) NGUYEN

a builder of
stories and impacts

project manager · product manager · business analyst · storyteller · data enthusiast
Minerva University Computational Science & Business San Francisco, CA Viet Nam
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Linh Nguyen Portrait

About me

Hi, I’m Linh — born on Christmas, in Quang Ninh, Vietnam.

I grew up building cardboard houses for stray cats and helping Santa host imaginary classes for Teddy and Barbie.

Now, I want to be a Product Manager who bridges the distance between people and what they deserve access to.

As a dreamer and leader, I build products and communities that connect us, humans, through data, technology, and stories — from a youth entrepreneurship club to AI-powered tools for urban planners, strategists, and educators.

Currently CS and Business double major at Minerva University, where I’ll rotate through 4 continents and continue my building journey — and eventually, maybe, go back to host that Santa class for kids in the mountains.

Currently

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Product Management Intern

Step Up Education · May 2026 – Present

• Own user engagement and retention strategy for Pika, an AI companion robot serving tens of thousands of Vietnamese children (K-12), from conversation design through measurement.
• Analyzed 1,500+ raw conversation sessions to surface drop-off patterns across opening archetypes and child intent distributions; translated findings into concrete flow and prompt redesigns.

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Product Research Consultant

Creativity Explored, San Francisco · Sep 2025 – Present

• Directed a 5-person discovery sprint; mapped multi-stakeholder journeys (families, educators, students) to diagnose awareness-to-enrollment friction in disability-affirming youth programs.
• Built a hybrid referral product, defining activation flow and adoption metrics across 20+ special schools in SF.

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Admissions Product & Data Analyst Intern

Minerva University · Aug 2025 – Present

• Evaluated applicants from 190+ countries across multi-disciplinary challenges; maintain integrity checks and rubric alignment on thousands of assessment cases.
• Audited 800+ QA assessments using Mann-Whitney U and Chi-squared tests; built a volume-weighted priority matrix capturing 58% of valid resets at 49% of manual review effort.
• Analyzed 2,000+ Writing Challenge entries with Chi-Square and ANOVA; identified Material Conflict as the top failure predictor and built an ML framework to pre-test prompts for systemic bias.

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Founder & Product Lead

The Beezniz, Youth Career Orientation and Entrepreneurship Club · 2023 – 2025

• Founded Quang Ninh’s first officially recognized youth entrepreneurship club, scaling to 50+ active members/year. Secured institutional partnership with Vietnam Youth Federation and City Investment Club.
• Grew a content-driven acquisition channel to 5,000+ followers, establishing the province’s first youth startup media platform and driving attendance across 30+ internal & regional programs.

Technical Stack

Product

  • User Research (interviews, surveys, usability testing)
  • Problem Framing & Opportunity Sizing
  • Prioritization (RICE, MoSCoW)
  • Agile (Scrum, sprint planning, retros)
  • Roadmapping (short vs long-term alignment)
  • Experimentation (A/B testing, hypothesis design)
  • PRD Writing (clear specs, success metrics)
  • Product Analytics (funnel analysis, retention, cohorting)
  • Product Marketing (positioning, GTM basics)

Tools

  • Figma / Stitch — wireframing, prototyping
  • Notion — PRD, roadmaps
  • Amplitude — funnel, cohort, retention
  • Linear — backlog, sprint planning
  • Tableau — data visualization, dashboards
  • Google Analytics — traffic analysis, user behavior
  • Claude Code — AI-assisted development, prototyping

Data & Technical

  • Python — pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib/Seaborn
  • SQL — joins, aggregations, window functions
  • JavaScript — DOM manipulation, async basics
  • HTML/CSS — responsive layouts
  • REST APIs — data fetching, integration basics
  • Git / GitHub — version control, branching, collaboration
  • R — statistical analysis, ggplot2

Design & Operations

  • Design — Figma
  • Operations — Event & Program Ops · Stakeholder Management · Fundraising & Partnerships
  • Languages — Vietnamese (native) · English (C1 — IELTS 8.0)

Certifications

  • Python for Data Science, AI & Development — IBM (Dec 2025)
  • Breaking Into Product Management (Dec 2025)