As tech teams we're great at designing and building products and experiences that people love. But one thing that we still can't do effectively is design our own careers.
With the help of regular contributors and special guests, we dig into why that is, tackling questions around managing vs making, missing manager tools, soft and hard skills and training, compensation and navigating a new job that's right for you.
#29 Jackie Bavaro (Asana, Google) on having impact as a Product Manager
Jackie Bavaro was most recently Head of Product Management for eight years at Asana, the well-loved work management software, where she joined pre-launch as the first PM. During her tenure, she grew the PM team to over twenty amazing people, helped Asana's go from $0 to more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, and launched Asana's associate product manager program.
Jackie has since written two fantastic books on PM careers - 'Cracking the PM career' and 'Cracking the PM interview'.
In this episode we talk about Jackie's growth as a PM at Asana, defining impact in role, working with founders, navigating feedback and her 'Do, Try, Consider (https://jackiebo.medium.com/do-try-consider-how-we-give-product-feedback-at-asana-db9bc754cc4a)' framework which we've now implemented at Progression.
Links
Jackie on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jackiebo)
Jackie on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3If6X9U)
Jackie's tweet referencing the framework we talk about in the podcast (https://twitter.com/jackiebo/status/1561796790814355457)
Jackie's interview on Lenny's pod (https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/jackie-bavaro-on-how-to-build-product)
Do, Try, Consider (https://jackiebo.medium.com/do-try-consider-how-we-give-product-feedback-at-asana-db9bc754cc4a)
Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch (https://twitter.com/jonnyburch)
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29 Sept 2021
#28 Steve Bianchi (Beamery, Unilever) on the rise of the people-focused COO and a capability-based future
This week Jonny chats to Steve Bianchi, CHRO and COO of talent operating system Beamery. A real futurist and systems thinker, Steve gets into the future of the people team, why people leaders make good Chief Operating Officers and imagines a future where we’re hired not based on our university and CV but by our skills and ambition.
Links:
Steve on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenbianchi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenbianchi)
Beamery: https://beamery.com/ (https://beamery.com/)
Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch (https://twitter.com/jonnyburch)
Who else should we be speaking to?
Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email podcast@progressionapp.com (mailto:podcast@progressionapp.com) and tell us more.
Our lovely sponsor: Progression!
We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: progressionapp.com/careers (http://progressionapp.com/careers)
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7 Sept 2021
#27 Lucas Coelho (Roam Digital) on building an academy, leadership lessons and how to run a happy team
In this episode Jonny chats to Lucas Coelho — VP of design at Roam Digital — about growing as a leader, his thoughts on how to build a bench of good junior folks, being honest and learning from failure and his experience building progression frameworks and using Progression. Lucas is a Progression customer, but we try and steer well clear of that until the very end.
Lucas Links:
https://lucascoelho.co/ (https://lucascoelho.co/)
https://twitter.com/coelholucas (https://twitter.com/coelholucas)
Lucas's talk at Figma Config: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsSKDh8gBg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsSKDh8gBg)
Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch (https://twitter.com/jonnyburch)
Who else should we be speaking to?
Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email podcast@progressionapp.com (mailto:podcast@progressionapp.com) and tell us more.
Our lovely sponsor: Progression!
We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: https://progressionapp.com/careers (https://progressionapp.com/careers)
Rate us!
It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539 (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539)
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