Product leader and builder

David Berzin

I lead product, design, engineering, and data at NPR.

Before NPR, I led product and technology for Hearst Magazines' 57 international brands, from known-user data to AI-driven paywalls and personalization, and led Hearst's shared AI platform for its product and engineering teams. At Viacom, we built innovative, revenue-producing data products on machine-learning platforms.

David Berzin
15+
years leading product, data, and technology teams
57
international brands in my Hearst portfolio
4
venture-backed health startups

Background

Product, technology, data, and organizational change.

I've spent most of my career inside large media organizations, leading teams that build the platforms and data that let one decision ship across dozens of brands at once. More recently that has meant putting AI to work in those environments, where the hard problems are data, workflow, and ownership more than the model.

I'm SVP, Product and Data at NPR, where I lead our product, design, engineering, and data teams. Before that, at Hearst Magazines, I led product and technology for its international brands across seven markets, including Esquire, Women's Health, and ELLE. We partnered with international market leaders and editors on memberships, commerce, advertising, and personalization. I also led AI enablement for Hearst's product and engineering teams: the shared tooling, context, and guardrails that moved agentic workflows from pilots to production.

Earlier, at Viacom, I was the first executive product hire in the corporate data organization. We built innovative, revenue-producing data products on machine-learning platforms used across brands like MTV and Nickelodeon.

Between Viacom and Hearst, I built products in digital health. I helped launch Parsley Health and Mindbloom. At Proper, I stood up product, engineering, design, and data, and we launched a headless commerce platform. At Vori Health, our team replatformed a nationwide telehealth clinic, rebuilt onboarding for a several-fold increase in first-visit conversion, and launched a computer-vision physical therapy experience.

I occasionally take on select advisory projects through NiceSalt, a small product studio.

Selected work

Built at scale, measured in outcomes.

Organizations and platforms I've led in full-time roles: what I was responsible for, what we changed, and what it produced.

Covers from Hearst Magazines' international brand portfolio.
Hearst Magazines · International Platforms & AI

One platform across 57 international brands

Led product and technology strategy across Hearst's international portfolio in seven markets, spanning memberships, commerce, advertising, and personalization. Unified membership strategy across the portfolio and directed full-stack agile teams building shared capabilities, including known-user data, AI-driven dynamic paywalls, and propensity-based personalization, for titles including Esquire, Women's Health, and ELLE. Also led AI enablement for product and engineering: shared tooling, context, and guardrails that moved agentic workflows from pilots to production.

Social data analytics dashboard.
Viacom · Data Platforms & Machine Learning

From enterprise data to new revenue

Built innovative, revenue-producing social data products on machine-learning platforms used across brands like MTV and Nickelodeon. Led enterprise BI and customer data platform work as the first executive product hire in the corporate data organization. Earlier, led product for shared identity, personalization, and gamification services used across 200+ global properties.

Vori Health's computer vision physical therapy experience.
Vori Health · AI & Computer Vision

Replatforming a nationwide telehealth clinic

Led product, data, and design for a nationwide musculoskeletal telehealth company. Replatformed the HIPAA-compliant clinical stack (EHR, scheduling), rebuilt patient onboarding for a several-fold increase in first-visit conversion, and launched "Motion Guide," a computer-vision physical therapy experience that increased patient engagement.

Proper's sleep health e-commerce storefront.
Proper · Data-Driven Growth

Rapid e-commerce launch

Built the product, engineering, design, and data functions for a direct-to-consumer sleep health startup. Launched a headless e-commerce platform in 6 weeks.

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