Summary
Kay Toma is a senior product manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building creator-first products and large-scale platform features across TikTok, ByteDance, Snap, Clubhouse, and Microsoft. She blends a strong engineering background—previously shipping ML-driven Windows Update and cloud SaaS solutions—with product leadership that drove Clubhouse’s first subscription revenue and growth-focused creator tools at Snap. Kay coaches aspiring PMs, mentors early-career engineers, and is active in invite-only communities that champion women and non-binary technologists, signaling a commitment to inclusion and career development beyond product metrics. Known for moving ideas from 0→1 to sustained scale, she combines quantitative rigor from finance and engineering with practical UX sensibilities to increase engagement, retention, and monetization for creator ecosystems. An uncommon detail: she has operationally led large intern and early-career programs, demonstrating talent development as a core part of her product playbook.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Francis Parker School
English, Chinese, Japanese