Yu Kuo

VP of Product at Juniper Ops · Lending

Juniper Ops

Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)

12+ years experience

Monash University

English, Mandarin

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Overview

24 years in product management, the last 3 at Juniper Ops, where I lead the lending team. Ran 45 customer interviews before writing the first spec. Before that: Tokopedia and ByteDance. I tinker with 3D printers.

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Advice on lending
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Skills

underwritingproduct strategycreditcompliancegrowth

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closes in 3 months

Looking for a senior pm who has worked on underwriting at scale

Role: Senior pm
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: On-site
Compensation: $123k-$156k + equity
Team: Lending, 9 people
Start: As soon as possible
Must have: Production experience with credit Production experience with product strategy Comfort with ambiguity
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp S$133k-S$217k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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closes in 3 months

Office hours for engineers moving into product: lending and growth

Topics: lending, underwriting, compliance
Format: Async reviews
Terms: Paid
Capacity: One advisory role at a time
Best for: First-time founders

24 years of lending. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

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Experience

VP of Product
Feb 2024 - Present
Juniper Ops · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Ran 155 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
- Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
- Launched the lending product in 6 markets.
Senior Product Manager
Mar 2022 - Jan 2024
Tokopedia · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Took lending activation from 33% to 47% in three quarters.
Product Manager
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
ByteDance · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Ran 55 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
Associate Product Manager
Oct 2016 - Jan 2020
KPMG · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Grew lending revenue from $2 million to $41 million ARR.
Associate Product Manager
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
Hyundai Motor · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Grew lending revenue from $2 million to $48 million ARR.

Projects

Lending benchmark

2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing credit and product strategy on real workloads.

Conference talk: lessons from lending

2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling lending.

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Education

Monash University
BCom, Business Administration
1997 - 2001

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