Summary
Melody Chen is a product manager specializing in the Japan market with 10 years of cross-functional experience in brand management, product design, marketing and sales across APAC. She has led go-to-market work helping emerging brands enter Asian markets, combining creative design sensibilities from a Master’s in Interactive Design with practical account and sales management. At Yaru Ventures she drove packaging and brand kit work that improved store ranking and client satisfaction, and now applies that customer-focused mindset to marketplace product strategy at AliExpress. A natural communicator who thrives in teams and can operate autonomously, she pairs cultural fluency in Japanese and Chinese markets with hands-on execution. Outside work she channels creativity into music and busking, a pastime that sharpens her people skills and empathy for real-world customer behavior. Ambitious and curious, she’s actively refining her specialty at the intersection of product, design and market entry.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Japanese Language and Literature, Bachelor's degree, Japanese Language and Literature at Jinan University
The University of Sydney
Chinese, Japanese, English