About
Hello. My name is Adam Yim. I grew up in London (no, the other London). I went to school at UW (no, the other UW). I studied Systems Design Engineering (no, I'm still not entirely sure what it is).
After I graduated I moved to San Francisco and became a product manager. Eight-and-a-half years later I moved back to Toronto, where I now reside with my wife and our growing collection of plastic takeout containers.
Work
I am currently enjoying a break from work, diving back into hobbies and interests that I had let wither for too long as well as exploring new ones.
I most recently worked at Reddit, as a Director of Product, Guest, which meant I cared about reaching new users through SEO, sharing, embeds, and other avenues. I was formerly a Director of Product, i18n where I helped to define and carry out Reddit's product approach to growing internationally.
Before Reddit, I worked at a company called Smash.gg (subsequently acquired by Microsoft) as a Director of Product. There, I helped grow us from hosting a handful of esports events every week to thousands. I managed product managers, a designer, and a data scientist, and worked to define the vision and roadmap of the platform. We raised $11M in our Series A based on that vision.
Previously, I was at Apple on the search team. I owned the movies, television, sports, weather, and stocks domains, which meant that when you typed something into Safari or Spotlight and saw a result in one of those categories, coming from the internet, I worked on it. It was here that I experienced the most stressful 30 seconds of my career as Craig Federighi demoed two of my features live onstage at WWDC 2015.
Prior to that, I worked at Zynga. As a Lead Product Manager I was sent to the UK to ensure the team at the newly-acquired NaturalMotion was up to speed on all of our best practices and product rigour. Before that, I managed a team of 5 product managers while in charge of Zynga's largest (and most-loved by Obama) game, Words With Friends. And before that I cut my teeth and learned the ropes of product management while working on the original FarmVille (yes, that one).
If you want to learn more, you can take a look at my resume.
Photos
In October 2017, in a somewhat impulsive attempt to ignite the creative aspects of my personality, I ordered a Fujifilm X-T2 mirrorless camera. In order to assuage the subsequent feeling of guilt brought on by financial irresponsibility, I committed to using the camera every day, thus beginning a photo project that would last two-and-a-half years.
I posted a daily photo for more than 900 consecutive days.
Over the course of that time I accrued more gear (in the form of lenses, bags, a gimbal, and multiple film cameras), and would not step out of the house without at least one camera in hand. I came to consider myself a photographer, even if only as a hobbyist. Below are a sample of images taken during that time. To see all my past and future photography, follow me on Instagram.