Thomas Brouwer

Interim AI/ML PM

  • Helping companies develop impactful machine learning and AI products and bringing them to market
  • Instead of spending months researching, I help teams quickly test and develop products
  • Bringing experience developing ML/AI products at companies like Yelp, Apheris, Blinkist & Go1, as well as a PhD in machine learning
  • Offering interim product management roles of 3, 6, or 12 months, usually 3-5 days a week

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My experience

Handshake AI  Machine Learning Expert (freelance)

Helping leading AI labs develop better ML models

2025 & 2026

Celebrate / Kartenmacherei  Principal PM (freelance)

0 to 1 product, machine learning, agentic development

2025 - 2026

Blinkist  Principal PM (freelance)

Bringing Blinkist to your company - building B2B & AI coach

2025

Go1  Head of Product

Headed Content & Discovery products for B2B learning content aggregator, responsible for: search & discovery, content intelligence, content management. Hired, onboarded, and managed 3 PMs in EU and Australia.

Impact: uplifted metadata w/ LLMs (36% → 95% coverage), improved core search (5% lower time-to-click)

2024-2025

Blinkist  Principal Data Product Manager

PM for personalisation and discovery. Developed and launched new engagement features in the app.

Impact: launched new recommendation algorithms (+20% CTR) and Feed (+5% daily return rate)

2023-2024

Apheris  Senior Product Manager

Built secure federated ML tools for enterprise businesses (pre-PMF, B2B)

2022-2023

Yelp  Senior Product Manager

PM for Yelp Store Visits, 1st-party store visit attribution product, allowing national advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their ad spend

Impact: grew adoption 10x, drove $6M+ revenue/year

2018-2021

University of Cambridge  BA & PhD

BA in computer science, followed by PhD in machine learning, developing Bayesian matrix factorisation methods. Nominated for British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Competition.

Google scholar, Github

2011 - 2017