Teddy Lee

Startups @ OpenAI

2024

🚀 Helping startups build with with the OpenAI API: https://platform.openai.com/docs/overview

Product Manager and TPM

2022 - 2024

Founding member and Product Manager for OpenAI’s fine-tuning data (Human Data) team that has led initiatives to enable the safe deployment of ChatGPT, DALL·E, and the OpenAI API. Specific efforts I've worked on include: • PM-ing OpenAI's internal data labeling platform, which supports all research teams' data needs • Building data pipelines to enable the launches of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL·E, and more • Enabling safety by shipping the Content Moderation API: https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-content-moderation-tooling/ • Making ChatGPT better at math: https://openai.com/research/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with-process-supervision • Running OpenAI's Democratic Inputs to AI Grant Program: https://openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai-grant-program-update • Improving the Model Spec for better alignment: https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-model-spec/ • Developing best practices for governing agentic AI: https://openai.com/index/practices-for-governing-agentic-ai-systems/ • Partnering with Sal Khan and his team to develop the first Khan Academy AI tutor (Khanmigo) and helping to prepare a ChatGPT AP Bio demo for Bill Gates I also lead OpenAAPI, OpenAI’s Asian American And Pacific Islander (AAPI) Employee Resource Group.

Board Member

2022

President

2022 - 2024

Led the MIT Club of Northern California, which consists of 14,000 MIT alumni (~10% of the global population) and is the 2nd largest MIT Alumni Club in the world after the Boston club. Overseeing a team of 20+ volunteers that span social activities, professional tracks (e.g., Energy & Environment, Health & Life Sciences, Tech), and a variety of other topics. The mission of the club is to further the well-being of local MIT alumni by connecting them with each other and by fostering a continuing relationship with MIT.

VP of Technology Track

2020 - 2022

MIT AI Conference Chair

2019 - 2020

2020: https://www.mitcnc.org/events/mit-ai-conference-2020/ 2019: https://www.mitcnc.org/events/mit-ai-conference-2019/

MITAA Board Member

2022 - 2025

Senior Engagement Manager

2021 - 2022

Leading customer engagements with strategic customers: • Managed relationships with OpenAI, Blend, DoorDash, Flexport, and Pinterest • Drove pilots and managed enterprise contracts to ensure delivery / drive account growth • Supported Scale’s entry into the NLP, Document AI, and eCommerce domains by working with eng and ops stakeholders to build and scale labeling pipelines

Engagement Manager, Global Technology

2020 - 2021

Scale's mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. We do this by providing high quality training and validation data for AI applications, and our suite of APIs enable AI teams to generate high-quality ground truth data. Scale works with AI teams at Airbnb, Baidu, Embark, Flexport, Gusto, Liberty Mutual, Lyft, Nuro, nuTonomy, Nvidia, OpenAI, P&G, Pinterest, Samsung, SAP, Zoox, and more. As part of our Content & Language team, I work with customers like OpenAI, Flexport, and Pinterest to help them get the high-quality labeled data that they need to develop AI applications.

Product

2019 - 2020

Owned efforts to grow the SMB segment of OneSignal’s business: • Converted several thousand users to paying customers via a self-service upgrade path, helping to enable a $25M Series B fundraise • Deployed feature upsells / gates and marketing to increase conversion and lower churn • Built data pipelines / dashboards for SaaS metrics and KPIs (account signups, user growth, new feature adoption) used by the executive team and other key stakeholders OneSignal's goal is to power the world's messaging and democratize communication tools for everyone from individual blogs to top-tier apps - 1.3 million users send more than 10 billion notifications each day using OneSignal's technology.

Strategy Consultant

2017 - 2019

Advised executives at technology, retail/CPG, financial services, and healthcare companies on key strategic and operational issues. Responsibilities include building financial models and performing analyses, synthesizing information gathered from diverse sources, conducting client and expert interviews, and communicating findings and recommendations to key stakeholders. Sourced and served promising startups as a part of McKinsey's "Ignition Club" (https://get.fuelbymckinsey.com/offering/ignition-club/), a locally-active and globally-connected community for startups, investors, and other members of the startup ecosystem.

Student Body President & MBA Student

2015 - 2017

Elected to lead MIT Sloan's Student Government - 50+ representatives from MIT Sloan’s graduate student programs. Managed execution of projects across areas including Academics, Careers, Admissions, Clubs, IT/Operations, Community-building, Diversity & Inclusion, and Health & Wellness. The mission statement of the MIT Sloan Senate is "The MIT Sloan Senate serves as an active representative of the Student Body, and senators are the Minds and Hands behind projects that materially improve students’ lives and enhance the overall Sloan Experience."

Product

2013 - 2015

Helped build the fastest-growing $1B+ advertising product at Google by partnering with product teams and customers to develop new features, managing technical support offshoring efforts, and driving customer satisfaction at scale as a member of Google's customer satisfaction council

Consultant

2011 - 2013

Facilitated aircraft purchase negotiations for an airline client, built a SQL-based inventory management platform for a grocery retailer, designed a turnaround strategy for an energy client.

Software Engineer

2010 - 2011

Helped build social games into the IMVU “virtual world” platform to increase customer engagement and retention.