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Tim Cheney

Tim Cheney

Summary

Results-driven AI Product Leader with 11 years of experience in developing enterprise SaaS and AI solutions. Expertise in transitioning AI from concept to production and scaling across diverse customer environments. Skilled in productizing RAG-based systems and implementing human-in-the-loop frameworks while ensuring compliance and auditability in high-trust settings.

Overview

13
years of professional experience

Work History

Digital Science Group
Cambridge, MA

Technical Product Solutions Director
03.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Negotiated and established strategic vendor partnerships to enhance product capabilities and expedite feature delivery.
  • Defined AI product vision and roadmap, launching two AI-enabled products for enterprise research environments.
  • Owned strategy and execution of AI product features using RAG-based retrieval and human-in-the-loop validation.
  • Drove production deployment of AI across multiple product lines, transitioning from experimental to customer-facing features.
  • Translated compliance and data governance requirements into actionable AI product specifications for enterprise deployment.
  • Led enterprise discovery loops to assess AI utility and build trust across various customer implementations.
  • Established success metrics for AI adoption, workflow automation impact, and user trust indicators.
  • Collaborated with engineering and data science teams on retrieval tuning and evaluation loop design for reliable model outputs.

COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER
Danvers, MA

Strategic Client Engagement Director
08.2020 - 03.2023

Job overview

  • Achieved over 110% of ARR and expansion targets across strategic enterprise accounts.
  • Advised enterprise customers on digital transformation strategies and workflow architecture to align product capabilities with business needs.
  • Collaborated with executive stakeholders in product engineering and commercial teams to drive enterprise adoption initiatives.
  • Influenced product roadmap by gathering compliance and content-access requirements from global customers for strategic development.

COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER

Senior Project Manager
09.2017 - 08.2020

Job overview

  • Developed and implemented tiered delivery model, reducing time-to-deliver by 80% while enhancing service levels.
  • Achieved annual upsell targets exceeding 10% through effective revenue expansion strategies.
  • Launched federated semantic search platform, unifying discovery across diverse research content ecosystems.
  • Provided product design guidance to ensure alignment between enterprise workflows and platform capabilities across initiatives.

PC CONNECTION
Merrimack, NH

Cisco Product Manager
02.2013 - 09.2017

Job overview

  • Directed SaaS lifecycle platform GTM rollout, generating over $16 million in pipeline.
  • Developed strategy for SaaS platform to enhance customer engagement and drive expansion.
  • Facilitated multi-site adoption efforts to scale operations and improve collaboration across enterprise sales.

Education

University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Generative Artificial Intelligence: From Hype to Business Impact from Executive Education
01-2025

Southern New Hampshire University

Graduate Certificate from Project Management
01-2018

University Overview

GPA: 4.0

University of Massachusetts

B.S. from Business Administration (Management & Marketing)
01-2006

Skills

  • Enterprise SaaS Product Leadership
  • AI Product Strategy & Roadmaps
  • Enterprise AI Deployment
  • Customer-Driven AI Discovery
  • Human-in-the-Loop Decision Systems
  • AI Evaluation & Grounding Strategy
  • RAG System Productization
  • Analytics Strategy
  • Knowledge Workflow Platforms
  • Evidence-based validation
  • Strategic planning

Select Differentiators

  • Proven ability to take AI capabilities from concept to production to enterprise-scale adoption.
  • Deep expertise in RAG-based AI systems, grounding strategies, and evidence-backed AI product design.
  • Strong translator across domain experts, engineering, and executive stakeholders.
  • Track record shipping AI safely inside high-trust enterprise workflows.

Timeline

Technical Product Solutions Director

Digital Science Group
03.2023 - Current

Strategic Client Engagement Director

COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER
08.2020 - 03.2023

Senior Project Manager

COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER
09.2017 - 08.2020

Cisco Product Manager

PC CONNECTION
02.2013 - 09.2017

University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Generative Artificial Intelligence: From Hype to Business Impact from Executive Education

Southern New Hampshire University

Graduate Certificate from Project Management

University of Massachusetts

B.S. from Business Administration (Management & Marketing)
Tim Cheney