Desheng Lu / Toronto, Canada
Enterprise AI product leadership, from investment thesis to operating product.
AI Product & Portfolio Lead with 9+ years building zero-to-one enterprise, B2B, and consumer products. I turn ambiguous opportunities into product strategy, evidence gates, aligned teams, and a credible path to adoption.
Current leadership scope
Portfolio decisions at enterprise scale.
Scope reflects product and matrix leadership. Final funding approval sits with executive leadership, and evaluation participation is not presented as sustained production adoption.
Commercial and scaled delivery proof
Strategy backed by outcomes beyond the prototype.
TruWorld
A zero-to-one public MVP, a 45K+ community, 30+ retail partnerships, founder-level leadership, and approximately $500K in completed strategic investment.
View project ↗Scaled B2B deliveryEnterprise vendor platform
3,000+ partner organizations, 80,000+ users, 80% less reporting effort, and 50% fewer support tickets through redesigned workflows and self-serve product capability.
View project ↗Experience
Increasing scope, from operations to portfolio leadership.
Unilever | Horizon 3 Lab
AI Product & Portfolio Lead
Lead product strategy, business cases, evaluation, and production-readiness decisions across enterprise AI for global supply-chain and procurement workflows.
- Rationalized standalone agents and experiments into three zero-to-one platforms: multi-tier risk intelligence, negotiation intelligence, and a procurement AI hub.
- Established portfolio-wide criteria across groundedness, quality, latency, cost, security, workflow performance, and accountable human review.
- Lead matrix product decisions across 4 PMs and 20 engineers, from MVP toward enterprise technology handoff.
TruWorld
Co-Founder & Product Lead
Led product, GTM, marketing, and operations within the shared founder structure of a location-based discovery and rewards product.
- Co-led a 10+ person cross-functional team and launched the zero-to-one public MVP.
- Grew a 45K+ community, established 30+ retail partnerships, and helped secure approximately $500K in completed strategic investment.
Loblaw Companies Limited
Product Manager
Led roadmap and delivery for a large B2B vendor platform across supply-chain planning, reporting, and operational workflows.
- Served 3,000+ partner organizations and 80,000+ users while mentoring a junior colleague through project execution.
- Self-serve analytics, automated query support, and redesigned workflows reduced reporting effort by 80% and support-ticket volume by 50%.
Landun Group
Product Manager
Led product strategy, roadmap, GTM, and a seven-person cross-functional team for ML-enabled smart-home security.
- Launched a smart door lock with computer-vision safety features, contributing to 40% growth in flagship-product market share.
- Applied A/B testing and user-behaviour analysis across onboarding and product experiences, improving adoption by 35%.
Meritor / Johnson & Johnson / Sino Shield
Product owner and product analysis roles
Built the operational foundation behind my AI product judgment across inventory planning, forecasting, procurement analytics, vendor performance, and warehouse decisions.
How I operate
Product leadership across the whole decision system.
AI product judgment
- Agentic product strategy
- AI evaluation and governance
- Human-in-the-loop design
- Quality and release gates
Portfolio and business
- Business cases
- Portfolio prioritization
- Resource tradeoffs
- GTM and commercialization
Leadership and delivery
- Matrix leadership
- Executive alignment
- Global UAT
- Production readiness and handoff
Education
Supply-chain foundations, applied through product leadership.
Michigan State University
Eli Broad College of Business
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