I craft AI Experiences.

Hi, I'm Christopher McLemore - an independent product leader and creative problem solver. Consulting teams through unclear requirements, technical constraints, and stakeholder noise.

11+
Years Experience
24+
Consulted Companies
300M+
Users Impacted
Hero
Portfolio

Featured Projects

Products that reached millions of users

Productstein
PHILOSOPHY

Productstein

Productstein is a philosophical work on product creation as authorship, consequence, and residue. It explores how belief becomes systems, behavior is shaped, and how the act of building alters the person who builds.

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Gloria Healthcare
HEALTH & WELLNESS

Gloria Healthcare

Gloria Healthcare is an AI-powered wellness platform that integrates Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with Western clinical data to deliver personalized lifestyle prescriptions informed by food, herbs, and behavior protocols.

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Antihero
AI SAFETY

Antihero

Antihero is a safety and governance layer for frontier AI systems, designed to audit, enforce, and test policies while preserving human oversight and control of models.

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Mime
AI AGENTS

Mime

Mime is the personality layer for autonomous agents. It enables you to assign human traits to skills and define custom characteristics for roles and behaviors.

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Career Journey

Product Journey

From customer insight to systems at scale

1

Apple

Sep 2025-Feb 2026

Growth Product Manager

Led global lifecycle and personalization initiatives across Apple subscription products, integrating experimentation, decisioning systems, and cross-functional governance to improve activation and retention at scale.

Managed bubble tips and full sheets across Apple services
Implemented personalization into flexible messaging types on device
2

Starbucks

Jan 2025-Sep 2025

Product Manager

Owned strategy and delivery for AI-powered workflows across Starbucks' global B2B platform, deploying generative systems and APIs to automate content and operational tasks for partners and internal teams.

Deployed AI systems to 50+ markets
Reduced operational costs by 20%
Built 3 core APIs
3

Meta

Nov 2021-Jan 2023

Product Marketing Manager

Partnered with product and engineering teams to shape roadmap priorities by translating experimentation data, customer insights, and partner needs across Meta's global advertising ecosystem.

Launched 5 major features
Drove $10M+ revenue impact
Managed global partner relationships
4

IDEO

Oct 2019-Sep 2021

Senior Product Manager

Led development of a global digital platform and AI-assisted decision tools, transforming ambiguous user and research inputs into scalable products used across 200+ countries.

Scaled to 200+ countries
Built AI decision tools
Led product from 0 to 1
5

Kapor Capital

May 2019-Sep 2019

Venture Capital Summer Associate

Sourced and evaluated mission-driven startups, conducting diligence across product strategy, market dynamics, and founder signals to support investment decisions.

Evaluated 50+ startups
Led 3 investment memos
Sourced 10+ pipeline deals
6

Kapor Center

Jun 2017-May 2019

Entrepreneur in Residence

Incubated new product concepts focused on equitable innovation and emerging technology, conducting user research, prototyping, and early validation with founders and community stakeholders.

Launched 2 pilot programs
Conducted 100+ user interviews
Built 5+ prototypes
7

GAP

Jan 2016-Nov 2016

Technical Product Manager

Drove major retail go-to-market campaigns and inventory system transformations that increased store traffic, accelerated sales performance, and enhanced real-time operational efficiency across Old Navy, Athleta, and Banana Republic.

Reduced Digital Customer Churn
Improved Commerce Inventory Accuracy
About Me

Professional Bio

Christopher McLemore is a Senior Product Manager who helps teams move from ambiguity to traction. He's built and shipped products and platforms at Apple, Starbucks, IDEO, and Meta—working at the intersection of customer needs, business goals, and what engineering can reliably deliver across the lifecycle. Chris owns the full arc of product work: setting strategy, defining success metrics, aligning stakeholders, and leading cross-functional teams through delivery and rollout.

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