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
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
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)
- 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 (primary author)
- Google Transparency Report — primary author, Greater China region, 2014–2024
- University of Guam — 'Lost Chapters in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Translation and Commentary'
Other Work
Writing & Translation
- 日本語版
- 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)
- Professional translation services — Japanese, Chinese, Korean ↔ English
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
Not to be confused with other Kieran Maynards in England. He is not me, and I am not he.