Matte Scheinker
Better product decisions. Stronger teams. More confidence.
Studied at University of Maryland, College Park
Hiring Manager at Lyra Health
Available Wednesday at 7:00 PM UTC
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Matte's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $375/hr
Get help with AI Fundamentals, General Exploration, and .
Matte’s Product Management Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Chief Product Officer
I've spent 20+ years leading product teams at companies like Lyra Health, FutureAdvisor (acquired by BlackRock), Hightail, AOL, and Yahoo. Consumer, enterprise, fintech, health tech, teams of every size, and pretty much every flavor of product leadership challenge you can imagine. Since 2020, I've coached over 100 product and design leaders at every level. I think of anyone who's shaping product direction as a product leader, whether you're a senior IC driving strategy for your area, a founder or CTO who owns the product, a new manager learning to lead through others, or a CPO trying to align an entire org. The challenges are universal: stakeholder management, building strong teams, communicating strategy in a way that actually lands, making hard calls with incomplete information, and not losing your mind in the process. If any of that sounds familiar, let's talk.
Matte can help with:
AI Fundamentals
General Exploration
AI Roadmap Development
Skill Building
Strategy & Vision
Frameworks
Resume Review
AI Product Design
Execution
Promotion Strategy
Influence & Collaboration
LinkedIn Review
Product Case Interview Prep
Prototyping with AI
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