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William Dale

Digital Product & AI Leader  /  Platform Transformation  /  CBC · World Vision Canada

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Monthly uniques reached across audience platforms
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Concurrent streamers for The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration
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Years of senior product strategy & leadership
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Years working with AI/ML in production product contexts

01 · Who I Am

Products that
move people.

Location Toronto, Ontario 🍁
Current Director, Digital Product
World Vision Canada
Focus AI Enablement · Platform Strategy
Creative AI Music & Video · Streaming Platforms

I build digital platforms that create real-world connection, between donors and the communities they serve, between audiences and the stories that matter to them.

At World Vision Canada, I led the development of an industry-first AI-powered donor engagement platform, connecting 100,000+ supporters to 700+ global projects through personalized impact reporting at scale. Before that, I spent over a decade at CBC/Radio-Canada building digital audio products heard by millions, launching Canada's first podcast ad server, and integrating AI-driven personalization long before it became standard practice.

What you'll also find here, if you keep scrolling: a creative practice that takes that same belief about human connection and runs it through a completely different machine. I produce original music and video using AI as a genuine creative collaborator, and release it into the world on the same platforms I've spent my career building for others.

02 · Professional Work

15 years.
Real scale.

6 roles · 2 institutions

World Vision Canada Mississauga, ON (Remote) · 2020 - Present

Director, Digital Product Experience & Insights

Aug 2025 - Present

Defining and executing the strategic roadmap for supporter-facing platforms across Canada's largest private relief agency, 300,000+ active donors in active transformation.

  • Leading 5 cross-functional teams through final phases of an enterprise e-commerce platform migration, unifying experience measurement across Adobe Journey Analytics.
  • Overseeing the AI-powered donor portal and project-to-product translation system connecting field outcomes to personal donor narratives.
  • Designing AI-integrated development workflow projected to reduce operational costs by 50%, building on 30% savings from the Adobe/Stripe migration.
Platform Strategy Adobe AJA AI Enablement E-Commerce OKRs

Head of Supporter Insights

Jul 2024 - Aug 2025

Executive sponsor for major enterprise platform transition, coordinating cutover readiness across 9 departments for a successful launch impacting 200,000+ active donors.

  • Shaped AI-driven personalization across the donor ecosystem, replacing a fully manual content-matching process.
  • Drove Adobe stack rollout (AEM, Target, CDP, Analytics) aligned to donor journey optimization.
Adobe CDP Personalization Enterprise Launch

Group Product Manager

Nov 2020 - Jul 2024

Led product strategy across a $220M+ annual portfolio as de facto Head of Product, including WV360, an industry-first donor engagement platform on Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Azure AI.

  • Owned product vision for WV360 donor portal connecting 100,000+ donors to 700+ global projects via personalized impact reporting.
  • Led technology evaluation for full-platform migration from Shopify/Kentico to Stripe + Adobe Experience Manager, targeting 30% cost reduction.
  • Coordinated up to 8 cross-functional teams across engineering, marketing, operations, and vendor partners.
Azure AI Power Platform Dynamics 365 $220M Portfolio
CBC / Radio-Canada Toronto, ON · 2006 - 2020

Senior Digital PM, Audio Monetization

Jul 2018 - Nov 2020

Owned monetization strategy for CBC's digital audio across Apple, Spotify, Google, launching Canada's first IAB 2.0-compliant podcast ad server across 10M+ monthly downloads.

Podcast Monetization Ad Tech 10M+ Downloads

Product Manager, CBC Music & Digital Audio

May 2015 - Jul 2018

Led digital audio product across web, mobile, smart speakers, and car dashboards, 750,000+ monthly users. Introduced AI-powered content recommendation and ML-based playlist generation.

  • Produced The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration, digital storytelling experience for 1M+ concurrent viewers.
  • Integrated Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice interfaces into the CBC audio ecosystem.
  • Platform optimization reduced infrastructure costs by 90%.
AI Recommendations Voice UI 1M+ Concurrent –90% Infra Cost

Earlier Roles at CBC

2006 - 2015

Business Operations Analyst · Business Systems Analyst · Project Manager. Led enterprise-wide data conversion and regulatory reporting across Canada's national broadcaster.

PMP Data Systems Enterprise Programs

MIT Sloan

Executive Program, Digital Business Strategy

2021

Product Faculty

Mastering PM · Advanced PM Skills

2022 · 2024

Toronto Metropolitan University

B.A., Radio & Television Arts

2002 · CSPO · PMP · SAFe

03 · Creative Practice

AIn't Love Grand

William J. Dale III · 2026

The Work

AI as
collaborator.

I am not a professional musician. I am a professional who makes music, which turns out to be a different and more interesting thing. Every song starts with something true: a person, a moment, a feeling that has been living long enough to need an exit. I work with AI to give those songs a production quality I couldn't otherwise access. Think of it the way a writer thinks about a printing press. The technology doesn't author the book. It gives the words a form that can travel.

AIn't Love Grand album cover

2026 · Album

AIn't Love Grand

Nine songs. Written for specific people, about real moments, to say things that matter. Soul, Motown, piano ballad, and 80s-influenced love songs, held together not by genre but by intent.

2026 · Album

AIn't Christmas Grand

The same approach applied to the season: original songs built from real feeling rather than borrowed sentiment. Music for the moments that matter most in the year.

Ongoing · Singles

More to Come

New tracks released as they're ready. The catalog is growing, follow on your platform of choice to hear what arrives next.

Made with
AI music generation Human lyrics & intent Claude (creative workflow) Released on major streaming platforms

04 · Connect

Let's have
a real
conversation.

Whether you're curious about the product work, the creative practice, or where those two things intersect, I'm genuinely reachable. No form, no funnel.