San Francisco · Bay Area
Ryan Harper
Section · Tech

Apps & websites

Fifteen years of product work, in roughly reverse chronological order — from Adobe Express to a museum app for an exhibit on Stanley Kubrick

Adobe · 2025– · Principal Product Manager

Adobe Express, Search

Adobe Express is a design tool that aims to make creation accessible to everyone. The product is in a period of rapid growth, and the search experience is how millions of users find templates, assets, and inspiration.

I lead the search and discovery strategy, including within the Express AI Assistant, and enable global expansion through localized and culturally adaptive content experiences.

Search · AI · Consumer · Global
U.S. Census Bureau · 2023–25 · Group Product Manager

data.census.gov

The U.S. Census Bureau's Center for Enterprise Dissemination Services and Consumer Innovation, or CEDSCI, is the technology group responsible for the public face of U.S. federal statistics: data.census.gov and the U.S. Census API.

I led the product team focused on making federal data legible to the journalists, researchers, and citizens who depend on it. I also co-authored the Department of Commerce's Generative Artificial Intelligence and Open Data: Guidelines and Best Practices.

Civic · Open data · API · GenAI
Citi Ventures Studio · 2018–23 · Senior PM, then Group PM

City Builder & Worthi

Citi Ventures Studio was an internal product incubator created to support the economic vitality of communities, individuals, and businesses. As a founding member of the team, I developed 0-to-1 products and established a Product Program Guide for building socially responsible products within Citi.

City Builder was a place-based platform for discovering social-impact investment opportunities. It received recognition from the U.S. Census Bureau's Opportunity Project and Fast Company. Partnerships came from U.S. federal agencies and the governments of Milan, Jordan, and Togo.

Worthi was a free tool that gave workers market insights and resources to improve their skills and explore new careers.

Social impact · Fintech · Workforce · Data viz
Condé Nast Entertainment · 2015–18 · Senior PM, then Product Director

Condé Nast Entertainment Video

CNE develops the video technology behind Condé Nast's brands, which include The New Yorker, Vogue, Pitchfork, Bon Appétit, Vanity Fair, and WIRED. I led the team building the video player, CMS, apps, and APIs that drove engagement, growth, and monetization across the portfolio.

One project I'm fond of: an inline video player that used semantic analysis to match articles with contextually relevant and trending videos.

Media · Video · Platform · APIs
iHeartMedia · 2014–15 · Product Manager, Android & Data Science

iHeartRadio

Product manager of the iHeartRadio for Android app, named one of Google's Best Apps of 2014, as well as cross-platform initiatives in recommendations, search, social, localization, and personalization.

Mobile · Streaming · Personalization
WebMD · 2012–14 · Mobile Product Manager

WebMD

Led releases of WebMD for iPhone and launched WebMD Allergy. I was also the product manager of WebMD Healthy Target — a behavior-change program drawing on biometric data from Apple Health, Fitbit, Jawbone, and Withings.

Health · Mobile · Wearables
LACMA · 2012 · Designer & Developer

Kubrick

An iOS and Android companion app for LACMA's 2012 exhibition Stanley Kubrick, presented in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Museum · Mobile · Exhibit
Newquill · 2010–12 · Co-founder

Newquill

A mobile distribution and promotion platform enabling musicians to publish immersive, rich-media albums. Funded by DreamIt Ventures; Startup-in-Residence at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.

Music tech · Startup · Rich media
Newquill