How did you start in Product Management? And any tips to those striving to start in this field? Growing up I loved technology and understanding how things work. I was always taking things apart, trying to fix them, and putting them back together. When I was in college, I knew that I wanted to do…
Back in 2016, Marty Cagan wrote about why Women Make the Best Product Managers. We know there are some exceptional female product management professionals in Europe and we at Product Management Festival want to recognize their impact not only in their companies and profession but also on others in the product community. PMF is excited…
Kristina, can you tell us a bit about your professional journey and how did you come to be Director of Product Management at Booking.com? I have spent my career building products and leading teams that drive global business impact. This originates from my lifelong interest in how other cultures and people behave. As a…
Patrick Tsao is currently the VP of Products at Getsafe. Previously, he worked in product at Uber and Redfin, a technology-powered real estate brokerage. He grew up in Taipei, Taiwan, and studied Computer Science and Business Administration at the University of Washington in Seattle. In his spare time, he enjoys music, tennis, traveling, and also…
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…