Kate Hopkins is a Vice President on the Operations Team at Mainsail Partners in San Francisco, where she helps the firm’s portfolio companies accelerate growth through product management and market strategy. Prior to Mainsail, Kate earned her MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and worked in product management at Amazon and strategy consulting at Bain.

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Product Management

Product Management Characteristics

Product Management Skills

What is Product Management?

How to Spot a Partial Product Manager

Join our podcast hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver for in-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world! Every week they chat with people in the know, covering the topics that matter to you - solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams and developing careers. Find out more, subscribe, and access all episodes on <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-product-experience/">The Product Experience homepage</a>.

The Product Experience

Podcast

Product Leadership

Don’t Worry About Being Cool with Petra Wille [Rebroadcast]

Emily brings nearly 15 years of product management experience to her role as Managing Director for Mind the Product. While she has worked across a variety of industries, she will always have a soft spot for the travel industry where she spent most of her early career building software for airlines and developing a leading consumer travel app, TripCase. Emily is passionate about the craft of product management and loves talking about new ways to make products people love.

Emily Tate

Stakeholder Management

How to use the 5 Whys to Manage Stakeholders

Valerie enjoys working as a Brand Marketing Operations Manager at Google. Prior she held various lead marketing, and consulting roles focused on women in action sports. Additionally, she held positions as a Marketing Project Manager at MiresBall brand design agency, and in Product Marketing at Spy Optic Eyewear. Valerie has a BA in Communications, Advertising emphasis, Marketing minor from San Diego State University, and is PMP certified. She is a volunteer at Mind the Product, City Surf Project in San Francisco, and sits on the board for Women’s Skateboarding Alliance.

Valerie Gee

Lean Product Management

Product Management Conference

Video

How to Influence the Business by David J Bland

Being a problem solver by heart and product manager by trade, Thomas has experience discovering, validating and developing digital products. Employing a hypothesis-driven approach, he takes feature or product ideas from conceptualisation to realisation by applying lean & user-centered methods. Currently he is a Senior Growth Product Manager at Personio, a holistic HR software for companies from 10 - 2000 employees. Previously he led Sign up for DAZN, the worlds leading OTT sports streaming provider. Prior he worked with German tech consultancy inovex in their internal incubator, after gaining experience as Product Manager at insurtech GetSafe and ticketing provider CTS Eventim. During the inaugural MTP Engage Hamburg he enjoyed the sense of community so much that he decided to co-found ProductTank Karlsruhe shortly afterwards – and after moving to Amsterdam has joined ProductTank Amsterdam as organiser.

Thomas Leitermann

Emma is a senior product manager at Echo, a digital pharmacy. With over 7 years of product experience, she's worked in health, charity, fashion and retail. Emma has a passion for finding the ever-so-delicate balance between users, technology, ethics, and business. Emma grew up in the USA, studied in New Zealand and calls London home, for now.

Emma K. Wells

Hypothesis and Testing

Software Experience Management

How to Pick the Right Tools for your Experiments by Thomas Leitermann

George Fletcher is a Senior Product Manager that has been working in product for over a decade.  A passionate product manager promoting lean product management, rapid prototyping and the adoption of design sprints throughout the businesses he's worked for.  Having built successful products in a variety of different industries George has found a home in the acceleration and incubation hubs in larger corporate environments helping transform mindsets and processes towards lean, digital thinking.

George Fletcher

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Data Driven Product Management

They're Just Fancy Averages by Ben Fields

Product Strategy

Product/Market Fit

Startup Product Management

Marketplace Thinking – Christopher Nheu on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast]

Jase Clamp is a product consultant on a mission to see an Australian company in the top five global market cap companies. He believes the key to this is good product management. He serves on the Mind The Product team as Asia-Pacific Co-ordinator for ProductTank as well as consulting with startups on their product strategy and process.

Jase Clamp

Product Management Career

Product Management Community

Product Roadmap

Good Product Management is the key to Organisational Happiness

Anna Buldakova is a Product Manager in the Workplace by Facebook Machine Learning team. Starting her career at Yandex Search in Russia, Anna had a chance to work in a hardware startup called Suitepad in Berlin and then join Intercom (a b2b product for sales, marketing and support) in Dublin. She is also a founder of No Flame No Game, one of the most popular blogs about product management in Russian. 

Anna Buldakova

5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

San Francisco

Platform Management by Brandon Chu

Sonja Mewes is founder and consultant for digital strategy and OKRs at Beautiful Future. She works with organizations during their implementation and development of individual OKR systems. Sonja fell in love with OKR after over 15 years of traditional management experiences.

Sonja Mewes

Enabling Outcome-Oriented Product Organisations Through OKRs by Sonja Mewes

Adam is the Co-founder of Rove, a B2B SaaS business transforming international trade for consumer brands. With over 15 years of experience in Product Management, he specialises in shaping product strategies and scaling teams to deliver impactful results. As a Fractional CPO and Advisor, Adam works with businesses to unlock growth through strong product leadership and emerging technologies. A Mind the Product trainer for the past 7 years, he has coached product leaders and managers across the UK, Europe, and the US, helping product people build products customers love.

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