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

Building Product Teams

Creating courageous product teams with Yi-Wei Ang

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

ProductTank

Video

Product-led company powered by culture by Shaun Smith-Taylor

Sarah Oliver is passionate about building products to solve real business problems. She has 15+ years’ experience in B2B product management across the financial, legal, energy and logistics sectors. She is also a Chartered Marketer interested in the intersect of product marketing and product management and how we effectively launch new products. She is currently leading product for a scaling up Norwegian-based company moving to a product-led approach.

Sarah Oliver

Digital Transformation

Enterprise Product Management

Why we Fought SAFe and how we Lost, by Stephen Culligan

Tobias Freudenreich is a seasoned product leader with over 20 years of experience in the digital industry. Today, as an independent product leadership coach and consultant, he helps product people and their organizations to continuously grow and to develop successful products. Alongside his work, he is also co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, co-moderator of the Product at Heart conference and host of the German podcast series Produktmenschen.

Tobias is located in Hamburg, Germany.

Tobias Freudenreich

Community Post

Product Management Characteristics

Product Management Conference

Product Management Skills

Can Product Culture Save Media? by Anita Zielina

In 2005, Gibson Biddle joined Netflix as VP of Product.  In 2010, he became Chief Product Officer of Chegg, a textbook rental company that went public in 2013. Today he speaks, leads product management workshops, and teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford. He’s also an adviser for multiple consumer tech companies. Gib lives in San Francisco and tries to ski his age in days each winter!

Gibson Biddle

How Netflix Built an Innovative Culture by Gibson Biddle

Jon is an experienced product leader who has worked with a range of companies and organisations to create, launch and operate market-leading products and services. Having worked in retail, retail banking, and telecomms industries, he has moved to a role as the Head of the Product Management Community at the Government Digital Service, working to support and develop the community, and to help make government services simpler and better. He is passionate about communities of practice and supporting and developing individuals and teams to reach their full potential. Jon plays drums and percussion in a big-band and chamber orchestra and takes part in the occasional triathlon.

Jonathan Forman

Product Management

Product Management Career

Is that Job too Good to be True? How to Check you’re Applying for a Product Management Role

James has been working in the digital industry since 2011 and has worked in eCommerce, Travel and is currently working in Fin-Tech as a Senior Product Owner for an Investment Brokerage in the UK. He's worked on Web, Software, Apps and has created new products, optimised some existing ones and retired a few too. He loves making Products that make a difference and add moments of delight to the world and he is always interested in talking to others in our space. With a strong belief in making the world better through Tech, he dedicates his free time in mentoring and contributing back to the digital community.

James Whitman

Product Leadership

What is Product Management?

The Perks of Being a Generalist

As Director of Product Management at Optimizely, Jon Noronha is responsible for leading a team of product managers with a goal to discover new ways for companies to experiment more across websites, apps and every level of the stack. Prior to joining Optimizely, Jon coordinated engineering teams across Seattle and Beijing to rethink visual search at Microsoft. As part of Bing’s Image Search team at Microsoft, Jon developed cutting-edge technology in machine learning, distributed systems, and image processing and combined it with great design based on usability studies, constant A/B testing, and quantitative analysis. Jon has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Jon Noronha

Agile Product Development

How do you Implement Effective Product Experimentation?

Andrew Martinez-Fonts is a Group Product Manager at Yelp in Hamburg. He has a degree in Product Design from Stanford University, and spent the first five years of his career as a digital product designer at various agencies. Since 2003, Andrew has been a product manager for tech companies including eBay, Prosper, and Silver Spring Networks, and joined Yelp as a product manager in 2011. Since arriving in Hamburg in 2016, he manages a team of product managers and designers in Yelp’s Hamburg office, which focuses on products and features for business owners.

Andrew Martinez-Fonts

Strong Engineering Culture, Strong Product Culture by Andrew Martinez-Fonts

Rosemary is an experienced product manager who has specialized in software development, agile enablement and lean methodologies for the past seven years. She has worked across diverse domains including government, finance, retail and enterprise. After starting her tech career in the New York City start-up scene, she moved into consulting and has spent time with ThoughtWorks and Pivotal Labs London. She has done freelance consulting and training with incubator programs like start-up bootcamp, done UX research on four continents and likes cold water surfing.

Rosemary King

Product Management Training

Mirroring Product: a Breakdown of Process

Pranab Agarwal is currently Product Head at RateGain, a leading provider of SaaS products in the hospitality industry. Pranab is also a co-founder at zipBoard, a bug tracking and annotations tool for small teams. Pranab has worked at multiple startups. He is also ex-Microsoft. 
Pranab is an avid writer in the product management community, and focuses on 'out-of-the-box' tips and tricks for product managers. Most of his posts are based on his own first-hand personal experiences. His thoughts go beyond the theory and the conventional text on product management.

Pranab Agarwal

Product Design

Product Launch

How do you Build a Million-Dollar Product?

Spenser Skates is the CEO and co-founder of Amplitude. He experienced the need for a better product analytics solution first-hand while developing Sonalight, a text-to-voice app. Out of that need, Spenser created Amplitude so that everyone can learn from user behavior to build better products.

Spenser Skates

Product Analytics

Product Management Is Not Project Management

Taking Stock and Planning for Impact

Terry is currently Head of Product Management, Applied Science and Intelligent Products for Group Transformation at Lloyds Bank and leads the development of the Group’s Cognitive Platform. He is passionate about Digital, Product Management, Innovation and Design with over 20 years Product Management experience in designing and building products and mobilising product teams in telecoms, government and banking sectors.
Voted one of the 50 most innovative and powerful people in European Digital Financial Services by his peers of the Digital Banking Club in 2015, 2016 and 2017, he is also co-author of the FinTech Book, the world’s first crowd sourced book on the subject.
Terry is a regular conference speaker on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Product Management and Customer Experience.

Terry Cordeiro

Product Strategy

Product Design: Let's get Emotional

Jobina is a freelance Product Management Coach and Consultant in Central London (www.productwrangler.co.uk). She held numerous job titles in her life in technology startups before stumbling across the one phrase that really made sense for all of it - Product Management. In case you're curious, she also grows vegetables, enjoys fancy dress and sings a lot.

Jobina Hardy

Startup Product Management

From Startup to Enterprise Product Manager: Is Bigger Always Better?

I've been in the digital industry for over 10 years and have worked across small and large charities, as well as my own freelance projects. I am now Director of Digital at the sector leading creative agency William Joseph. 

Having been at Cancer Research UK for the last four years, I have been able to work on high volume, high profile campaigns such as Race for Life, Dryathlon and the much-quoted #nomakeupselfie. 

In that time I helped drive forward the charity’s digital product and marketing capabilities to be some of the most respected and successful in the sector. 

I'm always excited to work with other organisations, share expertise and swap cat gifs. Give me a shout!

James Gadsby Peet

#mtpcon Product Leadership Forum – What we Learned

John Powell has over 17 years' product management experience, most recently at CDK Global where he managed website leads and was instrumental in launching a new leads platform and a data layer for capturing site analytics.  Prior to CDK, John held multiple product roles at AT&amp;T, including ownership of a suite RESTful messaging APIs and was the lead technology manager for AT&amp;T branded mobile music and video services.  He can be found on LinkedIn at http://bit.ly/2wvcKmW.