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Pick Ingredients. Discover Dishes

Handpick

As Handpick's Director of Product Management, I provided my team with the vision and the strategy to deliver the ultimate ingredient and recipe app, as well as meal kits sold through online grocery retailers. Together, we created a proprietary ingredient-pairing technology platform that leveraged social media data insights to create meal kits that appeal to even the pickiest eater.

Some high-level accomplishments on Handpick's B2B and B2C products:

  • Led and managed a team of content managers, designers, and product managers that are in charge of developing Handpick's B2B website, eCommerce products, recipe apps, and content pipeline

  • Shipped the company's redesigned iOS app and first Android app, increasing user acquisition by 10x and engagement by 5x. The iOS app was named Best App in Food & Drink and was featured on the Homepage

  • Analyzed social data insights to understand what influences consumer food consumption

  • Led the ideation, strategy, and launch of Handpick's first eCommerce website, and subsequently helped launch similar eCommerce experiences for grocery retail partners

  • Researched, designed, and implemented Handpick Smart Groceries, the company's first monetization strategy and revenue model based on creating meal kits that are designed around grocery retailers' SKUs/CPGs

  • Reinvented Handpick's content strategy by creating an in-house production lab of original recipe and dish content, including meal kits, recipes, and various food editorial content, while maintaining the company's supplemental corpus of aggregated recipes and dish data

  • Partnered closely with the Engineering and Data teams to devise a series of machine learning models and internal tools to analyze recipes, ingredients, and social food post data

Handpick

As Handpick's Director of Product Management, I provided my team with the vision and the strategy to deliver the ultimate ingredient and recipe app, as well as meal kits sold through online grocery retailers. Together, we created a proprietary ingredient-pairing technology platform that leveraged social media data insights to create meal kits that appeal to even the pickiest eater.

Some high-level accomplishments on Handpick's B2B and B2C products:

  • Led and managed a team of content managers, designers, and product managers that are in charge of developing Handpick's B2B website, eCommerce products, recipe apps, and content pipeline

  • Shipped the company's redesigned iOS app and first Android app, increasing user acquisition by 10x and engagement by 5x. The iOS app was named Best App in Food & Drink and was featured on the Homepage

  • Analyzed social data insights to understand what influences consumer food consumption

  • Led the ideation, strategy, and launch of Handpick's first eCommerce website, and subsequently helped launch similar eCommerce experiences for grocery retail partners

  • Researched, designed, and implemented Handpick Smart Groceries, the company's first monetization strategy and revenue model based on creating meal kits that are designed around grocery retailers' SKUs/CPGs

  • Reinvented Handpick's content strategy by creating an in-house production lab of original recipe and dish content, including meal kits, recipes, and various food editorial content, while maintaining the company's supplemental corpus of aggregated recipes and dish data

  • Partnered closely with the Engineering and Data teams to devise a series of machine learning models and internal tools to analyze recipes, ingredients, and social food post data

Pick Ingredients. Discover Dishes

Pick Ingredients. Discover Dishes

Handpick's core mission is to help people make amazing food by using ingredients that pair well together. Simplifying the UI and reducing the number of features on the Handpick app made it easier for people to see what they could make with ingredients they already had on hand, as well as be inspired by the rich world of food posts on social media.

iOS app

iOS app

Handpick v2.0 launched in the App Store first, and currently has over 300K users, including 50K weekly actives. Even after adding several new features and improving some existing flows, the Ingredients Pairing tab continues to be the most popular feature among users. 

Ingredient Pairing Power

Ingredient Pairing Power

By picking a few ingredients from a comprehensive list of 10K ingredients, users can see loads of recipes and dish ideas, in some cases not even having to incorporate any extra ingredients to make a complete meal.

Android app

Android app

The Android app launched shortly after the iOS app and was the first platform where the product team ran A/B tests to measure CTR on the Handpick "Smart Groceries" meal kits.

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Ecommerce Website Shop pages

Ecommerce Website Shop pages

Handpick + Uber Partnership

Handpick + Uber Partnership

Checkout flow on web

Checkout flow on web

Business Solutions Website

Business Solutions Website

Business Solutions Meal Kit Catalog

Business Solutions Meal Kit Catalog

My team of content creators, designers, food stylists, and photographers successfully edited and produced meal kits that included printed and online booklets like these. 

We prioritized the themes for each meal kit and then created a roadmap to produce these meal kits. The themes and roadmap were  were largely determined by analyzing geolocalized data trends, which were then prioritized in our content roadmap. 

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