PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

In this Path to PM post, we discuss the importance of connecting with a product's users and the tough aspects of product management. Tell us about how you broke into product management. Before Pendo, I was a VP of product at Rally Software. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Join the most senior line-up of product, UX design and engagement executives and the movement to meet the needs of the connected consumer. The industry’s chosen themes for 2018: Open Product in the Age of the Connected Consumer. Integration of New Technology into Digital Strategy. Michael Gough, VP Product Design, Uber.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions. That just blows my mind.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Take product managers. Solving the puzzle. But you know, it’s not just them.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2018

Michael will be joining us and 500+ product management, UX design and engagement executives at this years Open Mobile Summit (November 27–28 SF) to discuss ways in which to interact with and engage the connected consumers across all devices. Could you tell us a bit about your role as Chief Product Officer at Weight Watchers?

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 is under 2 weeks away. As always, the #BoS2018 schedule is designed to help Software Founders, CEOs, and Product Managers lead with confidence and grow a better business. Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. In this part of his talk, Rajnish talks about ‘core actions’ and ‘virtuous loops’ – a simple framework of sorts to understand user journey and gauge both the product and business […].

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching. Can I submit a question in advance?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So the team doesn’t get to measure their work or maybe some team over there, the analytics team measures and then doesn’t tell them if it is measured maybe it’s only the product management but the design of the dev team don’t know. And I got two answers one from the head of product that said “Size?”

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. What can help women succeed more at careers in traditionally male-dominated fields such as tech or product management? And having management who supports you doing it.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles. ” Shelly Shmurack Data & AI Product Manager, Aspectiva, a Walmart Global Tech company.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Nick: Making Reddit more welcoming was a theme for all of 2017 and most of 2018. Nick: Snooze Day was actually started by the original Reddit CTO, Marty Weiner, and the idea was to give Reddit employees some creative freedom. the best content on product management, marketing and customer support. Sign me up.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Unsubscribe anytime.

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