Jacob Bank is currently Director of Product Management at Google, responsible for Gmail, Hangouts Chat, and Google Groups. Prior to joining Google, he was the co-founder and CEO of Timeful, a startup that Google acquired in May, 2015. Timeful’s mission was to combine insights from behavioral economics and artificial intelligence to help people get the…
Scott Eblen is Director of Product Management at Twitter and will be speaking at Product Management Festival Europe 2019 in Zurich on 13-14 November. In this interview find out more on his career path, what he loves and finds challenging as a leader in product management, his tips to PMs early in their career and…
Product Management Festival recently hosted the second edition of PMF APAC in Singapore at the INSEAD campus. It’s a two-day event and is an annual conference bringing product professionals and managers from different industries, across disciplines and across geographies together to learn, exchange knowledge and make an impact. I had the wonderful opportunity of attending this amazing event and…
My Ayurveda Doc is a delightfully irascible octogenarian. Although I’ve known him well for the last 3 years, I shudder to open my mouth in front of him. And so whenever I recommend him to my friends, I ensure that I coach them first before they get ready to manage his anger in their…
This article was originally published on https://www.pypr.works The PMF Product Management Trends and Benchmark Report 2019 (TnB2019) report unveiled that on average across all 1000+ respondents we spend 7,2% of our time interacting with customers (when analyzing the 4 – 8 weeks period prior to the survey). Assuming a 40-hour week (that is likely not the case for most…
This post is the second of two posts recapping a meetup presentation from January 2019 at Getsafe HQ in Heidelberg, Germany. The first post is here; a video recording of the meetup presentation can be found here. In the first post from this series I defined terms such as “vision,” “strategy,” and “tactics,” then explored the benefits of having…
Nesin Elsawi is a Chief Product Officer at BCG Digital Ventures and was a speaker for Product Management Festival 2018. With a background in computer science and psychology, Nesrin shares her lessons learned from her time at small and big companies in North America and Europe, interim-CTO stint at Berlin-based Outfittery, and how founders and…
We are pleased to announce Product Management Festival’s Women in Product in Europe List. Each person on this list is an experienced product manager with a record of success. These ladies come from all backgrounds, from engineering to finance, from startups to corporations, but what they do have in common is that they have made…
Christian Sutherland-Wong is Chief Operating Officer of Glassdoor and a keynote speaker for Product Management Festival 2018. With a background in management consulting and banking, Christian shares his lessons learned from his time at Bain, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and a 10-day silent meditation retreat in the jungles of Malaysia. Could you tell us about your professional…
Fabrice des Mazery is Chief Product Officer at Thiga and a speaker for Product Management Festival 2018. With a background in entrepreneurship, Fabrice shares his lessons learned from time founding startups, what makes for a good mentor, and how crashing a startup early on eventually led him to be CPO today. Could you tell us…