Stella F. Lin

About Stella F. Lin

Stella excels at leading high-performance teams to create and scale products with her expertise across business strategy, product design, and GTM in the enterprise SaaS, conversational AI, no-code development, and cloud application platform spaces. She is currently leading a cross functional team to envision and incubate the next generation of gen AI agents in Microsoft Teams. In her spare time, Stella is an active startup advisor and mentor to future product management stars. Prior to this, Stella created Microsoft Teams\' B2C product vision, multi-year roadmap, and V1 portfolio of products, including Queues App, Sales and Service Copilot. She has also led a portfolio of Kubernetes, low code, and application services for Microsoft Azure and owned $500M+ P&L for a Microsoft SaaS product. She defines the vision, business and product strategy, incubates and launch early to growth phase products using cutting edge technologies, and leads worldwide GTM (field and digital) for a portfolio of products that experienced exponential growth during her leadership. Before Microsoft, she worked as a strategy, product or marketing lead across multiple Fortune 100 companies and startups. She holds an MBA with Wharton Business School and was certified in product innovations from Wharton’s executive education program. Stella has track records of translating user needs to concrete product innovations, paralleling strategy and flawless execution, and building/collaborating with cross-functional teams to make things happen across enterprises and B2C space. Specialties: 0-1 product creation; First principle thinking; Product intuitions; Connecting technology and business; Cross-functional leadership, Business Strategy, Go To Market; passion for ideas, people and learning

Experience

1. Principal Pm Lead Microsoft Teams Ai

   Microsoft

   Jul 2021 — Present

   Cross functional leadership: Responsible for envisioning, prototyping, experience design, quality/evaluating, and release of production-grade voice agents, Copilot in calling, and customer service agents in Teams. 0-1 product development: Queues App in TeamsAI stewardship: Pilot new processes and tools to facilitate organizational learning and experimentation.

Education

• Beijing Foreign Studies University

  Dual Bachelor, Economics

• The Wharton School

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Business Development
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Messaging
• Digital Marketing
• Competitive Analysis
• International Expansion
• Start-Ups
• Brand Positioning Strategies
• Product Life Cycle
• Brand Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Marketing Strategy
• Mobile Devices
• Product Road Mapping
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Strategic Planning
• Product Marketing
• Entrepreneurship
• Business Strategy
• Product Design
• Segmentation
• Outbound Marketing
• Market Analysis
• Project Management
• International Exp
• Product Management
• Emerging Markets
• Market Entry
• Management Consulting