Kieran Maynard
AI & Data Product Manager
I build AI-powered tools that turn complex regulatory and compliance challenges into scalable, automated operations. 11+ years at Google and Roblox across product management, compliance, and Trust & Safety.
I came from pure humanities — linguistics, East Asian literature, translation — and taught myself to code through curiosity and necessity. I didn't set out to become a PM; I became one by building: automation scripts, SQL pipelines, AI systems, Chrome extensions. Eventually, I had built enough to prove I already was a PM.
What I do
AI & LLM Products
RAG chatbots, bulk LLM inference pipelines, agentic systems, and AI-powered automation for enterprise operations at scale.
Regulatory & Compliance PM
EU DSA, CMA Commitments, content moderation policy. Building systems that make legal obligations scalable and audit-ready.
Data & Automation
Advanced SQL, Python pipelines, and end-to-end automation — replacing high-stakes manual processes with reliable, repeatable systems.
Cross-functional Leadership
Translating complex regulatory and business requirements into technical direction across Engineering, Legal, Policy, and executive stakeholders.
Featured Work
Selected Projects
Roblox Research Data API
Leading the design of Roblox's first-ever public API for researchers — a capability the company has never offered before. Enables academics, civil society organizations, and platform safety researchers to programmatically query Roblox's public data, advancing platform transparency in an entirely new way.
Sandpiper — RAG AI Assistant
Designed an end-to-end RAG knowledge assistant for the 900-person Privacy Sandbox Working Group, indexing 12,000+ restricted documents. Won 2nd place in the Google Privacy Sandbox TPgM AI Hackathon.
LLM Case Summarization Dashboard
Built a bulk LLM inference pipeline using SQLMiner to auto-summarize thousands of legal removal requests, surfacing AI-generated summaries directly in the team's primary management dashboard.
Legal Removal Chrome Extension
Built browser automation tools — a node.js proof-of-concept and a production Chrome Extension — that processed tens of thousands of cases, saving $50k+ in vendor time and eliminating a massive backlog.
Compliance Reporting Pipeline
Automated CMA-mandated quarterly reports with an E2E ETL pipeline — cutting generation time from 60–80 person-hours to under 5 (10x reduction), with zero errors and >95% auditability. "That was the smoothest cycle ever." — Legal
Google Transparency Report — Analysis Dashboard
Built an interactive analysis dashboard over 10 years of Google's government content-removal data — 160 countries, 42 products, 22 removal reasons, 13 reporting periods. Turns a flat period-by-period report into a multi-year trend explorer with live filtering by country, product, and reason. Personal project built entirely in the browser.
View dashboard →VLOP DSA Transparency Reports — Cross-Platform Dashboard
Built a comparative analysis dashboard over EU Digital Services Act transparency reports from six platforms — Google (6 services), X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and AliExpress — combining twelve separate reports into a single interactive view. Covers notices, proactive enforcement, government orders, and appeals for H2 2025. Personal project built entirely in the browser.
View dashboard →Skills
Product Management
- Strategy & roadmaps
- PRDs, BRDs, design docs
- KPIs, behavioral analytics
- UX/UI, user journeys
- Privacy by Design
Data & Engineering
- Advanced SQL
- Data pipelines, ETL
- Python, pandas
- BigQuery, Hive, Spark
- AWS, K8s
Artificial Intelligence
- Large language models
- RAG, in-context learning
- Prompt engineering
- Agentic systems
- AI governance
Program Management
- Strategic planning
- xFN leadership
- Risk & compliance
- Executive communication
- Process design
Publications & Awards
Recognition
- 2nd Place — Google Privacy Sandbox TPgM AI Hackathon (Sandpiper RAG assistant, 2025)
- Spot Bonus — Standing up the TPgM AI Taskforce, Google (2025)
- Spot Bonus — MT Compliance Q3 delivery: "quickly and deftly navigate some 11th hour complications to land Q3 deliverables without any issues of non-compliance" (2024)
- Spot Bonus — 2019 India Lok Sabha election integrity: "outstanding contribution... ensured that we contributed to the integrity of the elections process" — world's largest democratic election
- Spot Bonus — APAC Business Continuity Planning during COVID-19: led APAC BCP and coordinated team operations when "all operations were halted" on an incredibly short timeline (2020)
- 9 spot bonuses from leadership & 38 peer bonuses at Google
- Roblox 2025 EU Digital Services Act Transparency Report (primary author)
- Roblox 2026 EU Terrorist Content Online Transparency Report (primary author)
- Roblox 2025 New York S895 Transparency Report (Q3) (primary author)
- Roblox 2025 New York S895 Transparency Report (Q4) (primary author)
- Roblox 2025 H2 California AB 587 Transparency Report (primary author)
- Google Transparency Report — primary author, Greater China region, 2014–2024 (interactive analysis dashboard)
- University of Guam — 'Lost Chapters in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Translation and Commentary'
Other Work
Writing & Translation
- 日本語版
- 中文版
- Murakami Haruki — Lost Chapters in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Japanese translation)
- Kim Un-Su "Terribly Easy Writing Lessons" (Korean)
- Zhang Jiajia 张嘉佳 "The Old Love Letter" (Chinese)
- Consulting services — PM, automation, language acquisition
Research Papers
- 沈从文的《丈夫》与戴乃迭的英译 (2013, Fudan University)
- 张爱玲《倾城之恋》里的时间观 (2012, Fudan)
- Cross-media Study of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum (2012, University of Georgia)
- Animals in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's "Rashōmon" (2012, UGA)
- Japan's Legend of the White Snake (2011)
- Toward a Japanese "linguistics of speech" (2010)
- Carrier-Belleuse's "The Drunkenness of Bacchus" (2009)
Data Tools
- Convert spreadsheet data to Markdown
- Count characters & words in text
- Analyze text for word frequency
Homework Help
- Homework help projects — research notes and study guides
Not to be confused with other Kieran Maynards in England. He is not me, and I am not he.