Matte Scheinker
Studied at University of Maryland, College Park
Hiring Manager at Lyra Health
Available Wednesday at 8:30 PM UTC
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About Matte
I've spent 20+ years building and leading product organizations at Yahoo, AOL, and high-growth startups including Hightail (CPO), FutureAdvisor (Head of Product, acq. by BlackRock), and Lyra Health (Head of Product). At Lyra, I built the product org serving 20M+ people across 300+ enterprise clients; at Hightail, I led the pivot from legacy file-sharing to the collaboration platform that became the foundation for its OpenText acquisition. Deep experience leading AI/ML product strategy, 0-to-1 product development, cross-functional team building, and scaling through growth. Since 2020, I've coached 100+ product and design leaders globally — from first-time leaders to seasoned CPOs — on AI integration, product vision, stakeholder management, and organizational scaling. I also build and ship AI-powered products using Claude Code and LLMs to stay hands-on with the tools I recommend to clients.
Work Experience
Head of Product
Lyra Health
2019 - 2020
Hiring Manager
AI-powered workforce mental health platform using machine learning for provider matching and treatment personalization, serving 20M+ people across 300+ enterprise clients including Meta, Starbucks, and Pinterest. Now valued at $5.8B. - Professionalized product organization, scaled team 5x, and established company's first dedicated design team with frameworks and processes to support rapid growth - Launched Medication Management, a telehealth collaborative care model adding psychiatric prescribing services to Lyra's therapy and coaching offerings - Shipped Blended Care combining video therapy with digital CBT tools, achieving 2-3x faster patient recovery than traditional therapy and 700% higher engagement vs. traditional EAPs - Established data products and ML function, creating the product organization's first dedicated capability for AI/ML development. Led development of early-stage AI therapist assistant tools leveraging session analysis in a privacy-preserving architecture - Led product launch for Starbucks providing mental health benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees, contributing to 100%+ growth in covered lives
Head of Product, FutureAdvisor
BlackRock
2015 - 2017
Hiring Manager
AI-powered investment platform (Y-Combinator 2010) using machine learning for algorithmic portfolio optimization, automated rebalancing, and tax-loss harvesting. Acquired by BlackRock in 2015. - Led product through business model evolution from direct-to-consumer to B2B2C SaaS provider for financial institutions, adapting ML-driven recommendation engine for white-label deployment - Scaled product organization 5x and introduced Agile methodologies across the technology organization - Doubled assets under management through improved client conversion, account growth, and faster time-to-launch for partner firms
Chief Product Officer
Hightail
2012 - 2014
Hiring Manager
Professional collaboration platform (formerly YouSendIt) serving 45M+ users across SMBs, enterprises (Coca-Cola, Nike), and white-labeled partnerships (Western Digital, Kaspersky). - Pivoted company from declining legacy business to Hightail Spaces, an end-to-end collaboration environment that became core business and foundation for OpenText acquisition - Expanded scope to lead product, engineering, and email marketing functions - Directed complete visual rebrand including new logo system and product refresh
Vice President of Consumer Experience
AOL.com
2010 - 2012
Hiring Manager
Brought in post-Time Warner spinout to refocus company on consumer-centric products by fixing struggling product management and UX functions. - Reconceived entire product development process and established hiring and performance standards for hundreds of product managers and designers across the company - Maintained direct approval authority for any product launch impacting more than 1M consumers - Served as interim GM of e-commerce for nine months with full P&L responsibility
Various user experience leadership roles
Yahoo
2001 - 2009
Hiring Manager
Sr. Director, Communications and Community User Experience (2007-2009) Director, Yahoo! Messenger User Experience (2003-2009) Design Lead, Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions (2001-2003) Started as sole designer for Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions, eventually growing and leading design teams of 10+ with matrix oversight of 50+ designers across communication and community products (Mail, Messenger, Voice, Profiles, Groups, Flickr). Led initiatives that tripled Yahoo! Messenger user base to 60M+ and introduced monetization resulting in the business unit's first-ever profitability.
Education
University of Maryland, College Park
BA, Psychology