With a career founded in writing, I pivoted to Product, enjoying the challenges offered by managing diverse products while bringing clarity of communication to my work. I&#39;m passionate about seeing how fast the space is evolving, and always interested to be part of the conversation, whether as a contributor, or writer.

Jon Horvath

Product Discovery

Product Management Career

From PO to CPO: How to drive your product career by Namrata Sarmah

Andres is a freelance writer and digital marketer with a background in engineering and a keen interest in the latest technology advancements. He currently helps tech companies and startups tell their stories by turning their complex ideas into easy to understand material. You can reach out to him on LinkedIn

Andres Phillips

Building the perfect product manager: A model for professional development by Greg Prickril

With his background in technical editing, community building and product marketing, Chris' approach to product management is inherently centered around user narratives. He spent the first few years of his career working with the B2B developer products, prototyped an experimental technical publishing platform along the way, and then kick-started the Mind the Product platform. You can find him at ProductTank, or on twitter as @camassey.

Chris Massey

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Embracing Change as a Career Advantage by Sara Wood

Imogen brings more than 10 years of experience in print and digital to her role as Director of Content Strategy for Mind the Product. The core of her experience comes from 10 years working as an editor for Bauer Consumer Media, a division of Europe’s largest privately-owned publishing group, and as Head of Content for Benivo, an award-winning startup.

Imogen Schels

How to Crack the Product Manager Career: Advice From Jackie Bavaro

Ed is a Product Manager at TheFoodMarket.com, an online marketplace helping indepdant food merchants reach a larger audience. Volunteering with MindTheProduct since 2012, Ed can be found assisting at numerous events, offering his insight around connecting technology, customers and business.

Edward Kendall

How successful product people develop by Shaun Russell

Swetha Viswanatha is a product manager with over a decade of experience in technology and automotive sectors. At Vail Systems, she spearheaded the design and launch of a telephony SaaS product, and at Ford Motor Company, she led the seat design and release for the 2018 Ford Expedition.

Holding academic degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Swetha excels in end-to-end product development, strategic innovation, and cross-functional team leadership. Outside of her professional pursuits, she enjoys painting, playing music, and traveling.

Swetha Viswanatha

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Product Management

Three unconventional ways to be a better product manager 

Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

Diversity and Inclusion

Growing financial products and fostering diversity at Barclays with Zainab Kwaw-Swanzy

Vignesh Balagopalakrishnan is a Group Product Manager at Yelp. Over the past four years, he built some core parts of the Yelp Advertising system, and currently manages a team of PMs. In a past life, he was an engineer and a management consultant, and tries to bring skills from that experience to his time building products. He also writes at thisisunpacked.substack.com, and publishes a weekly in-depth analysis of a current tech topic in the form of a 10-minute read.

Viggy Balagopalakrishnan

Product Management Characteristics

Comparing a Systems Product Manager to a Feature Product Manager

B2B SaaS product leader with 12+ years of experience building impactful products and scaling exceptional product and design teams. Check out my website where I write about authenticity, strategy, and growth to learn more.

Alex Hughes

Nailing your product performance review

Isaac Vargas is a Product Manager at Microsoft Graph Developer Experience team, from Costa Rica. He graduated as an electronics engineer and joined Microsoft as a support engineer for Azure Subscriptions Management. Then joined Microsoft Graph as a content developer, where I learned about DevX and documentation. In his free time Issac likes to play music, bake, and go on hikes in his beautiful country.

Isaac Vargas

7 things I’ve learned in my first 6 months as a product manager

Climbing the career ladder in product

Ketaki Vaidya: Women in STEM

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

Nailing your job interview presentation – Edward Biden on The Product Experience

Alexey Zanin is a Product Manager at Meta, working on Privacy Infrastructure. Starting his career as an entrepreneur in Russia, he led several b2b and b2c products from idea to scale and profitability. He also had a chance to work at GoCardless, a UK-based fintech unicorn.

Alexey Zanin

Four growth lessons I've learned from the best product managers

Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.

Eira Hayward

Product Management Skills

How I got my job in product – Karen Velasquez, Product Manager Signable

Karen is product manager at Signable, the largest UK based eSignature provider. She has over a decade of experience working with digital products for startup and scaling organisations. When not immersing herself in everything to do with product and leadership, she is usually exploring the beautiful Cotswolds countryside outside her home in the world heritage city of Bath.

Career Development