Cris
Tcheyan

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, San Francisco, CA

• Co-founded and scaled an education marketplace delivering in-person enrichment programs led by professional educators, artists, chefs, musicians, and park rangers to K–8 schools.
• Conceived and launched Rangers in the Classroom in under a week during the 2025 government shutdown — bringing park rangers and outdoor education into classrooms nationwide, featured in the Los Angeles Times.
• Built from zero to 100+ school partnerships across the Bay Area and Denver; expanding to New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles in 2026.
• Own product vision, strategy, and execution end-to-end, leading product, engineering, design, operations, and customer support.
• Built an AI-enabled operational platform automating educator onboarding, compliance, matching, scheduling, and classroom delivery — achieving 75–85% operational automation with a small team.
• Power user of Claude, GPT-4, and other frontier AI models directly in the product loop — prototyping new features, automating customer support, and building operational tooling.
• Led hiring, fundraising, partnerships, brand development, and organizational design through product-market fit and >$1M ARR.

Senior Product Manager & Technical Program Leadership

• YouTube Virtual Reality — Led product programs for immersive YouTube experiences reaching millions of users globally. Launched YouTube's first applications on Meta (Oculus) headsets.
• Google Cloud Platform — Led development and launch of Resource Manager API supporting enterprise identity, permissions, and access-control systems across Google Cloud products.
• Android Hardware — Led 0→1 development of Nexus Q and early Android devices from concept to launch — coordinating industrial design, firmware, software, manufacturing, and supply chain. 6-month Chief of Staff international assignment reporting to Google Tokyo EVP of Engineering.
• Corporate Engineering / Innovation Programs — Directed Google's company-wide "20% Time" innovation program. Hand-selected to join a centralized Corporate Engineering team optimizing resource allocation and execution across the company.

• Ph.D., Applied Physics — UC Davis (unfinished)
• M.S., Applied Physics — UC Davis
• B.S., Physics — New York University

National Park Service — Muir Woods National Monument Interpretation Program