Kai Takeuchi · Product strategy & development
I build products around the complexity of healthcare: the workflows, the data, and the people making decisions.
Optum
Founding Product Manager
A patient–clinician matching platform built around care preferences and communication styles. I led product vision and discovery, secured $6M in internal venture funding, and worked across clinical, design, engineering, and legal teams.
Optum
Product Manager
Making digital care work better for clinicians and patients. My work focused on intake, documentation, follow-up, and the handoffs that connect a virtual visit to the rest of a person’s care.
Syneos Health
Principal Product Manager
Early product strategy and prototyping for pharmaceutical patient support, exploring how enterprise data, automated workflows, and human teams could work together across a complex access journey.
Personal project · Synthetic demonstration
An interactive model of patient-access work, exploring the decisions, exceptions, and human handoffs between a prescription and therapy initiation.
Personal project · Synthetic demonstration
An AI case-resolution assistant that keeps case context, supporting evidence, and human review close to every answer.
Personal project · Fictional public sample
A photo-first cooking journal and culinary map. A small product question: how can you preserve a meal’s details without letting the food go cold?
My background spans economics, healthcare administration, and product development. I’m interested in how better tools can make complex work easier for the people doing it.
Outside work, I keep building—sometimes an AI prototype, sometimes a small app for the things I cook.
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