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

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.

John Powell

Product Development Process

Offshore Development: Pluses and Minuses for Product Managers

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

Lean Product Management

Product Design

Product Management Process

Product Strategy

Why a Design Sprint is Better Than Real Life (and how to Keep Those Vibes When the Week Finishes)

Satheesh Nanniyur is a Senior Director of Product Management in Salesforce. Most recently, Satheesh has been in Salesforce Marketing Cloud building APIs, API Platforms, and scalable Data Management systems for driving 360 degree customer view for cross channel marketing, audience segmentation, and personalization. Satheesh has over 8-years of experience in product management in various markets including Enterprise and Consumer Internet Software. Coming from a developer background, Satheesh is passionate about technology and problems it can solve.

Satheesh Nanniyur

Business Strategy

Product Management

Evaluating Product Teams: Mind What You Measure

Strategy Lead at <a href="https://red-badger.com/">Red Badger</a>. 
As Strategy Lead I help clients to define winning value propositions that focus on delivering customer value. With over 10 years' experience in product management I've managed a number of large-scale products for FTSE 100 organisations across retail, publishing, job board and gaming sectors.
Founded in 2010, Red Badger bring together the best in strategic services, customer experience and technical delivery using lean and agile processes. We help large organisations improve their speed to market whilst focusing on delivering value to their customers. We work with our clients to understand their problems and validate ideas in order to build new digital products or make significant improvements to existing ones.

Andy Wicks

A Lean Product Development Guide for Product Manageres

Nacho Bassino has been leading product teams for over ten years in different companies and industries, currently as Director of Product at XING, the social network for business professionals. Before XING, Nacho held other leadership positions as CPO at Bestday, Head of Product Development at Almundo, and Director of Product at Despegar. He is also passionate about sharing experiences and helping the product community. He organized Product Tank in Buenos Aires and Cancún and gave product management classes in different institutions. Most recently, he wrote Product Direction, a book that addresses how to create a winning product strategy and align its execution through strategic roadmaps and OKRs.

Nacho Bassino

What is Product Management?

Do tech skills benefit a product manager?

Relatively new to the product field, Susanna comes from a fintech and private equity background. Her urge for wanting to build amazing tools to make someone's day better comes from rebellious teenage years which included lobbying state budget changes and organising demonstrations in her native Estonia.

Susanna Paevali

A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

Julia Whitney is a Leadership Coach who helps individuals and 
teams, in the tech community and beyond, step up to the next level of their leadership potential. Julia brings her own experience as a board level leader to her coaching practice. She’s led UX design teams for more than 20 years, in both the U.S. and the UK, most recently as General Manager and Executive Creative Director for the BBC’s 150 person strong UX&amp;D department.

julia whitney

Product Leadership

Product Management Training

Keeping Your Stakeholder Relationships in CREDiT

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

Building a Culture of Innovation: Dave Martin, Digital Director & Product Strategist

Joseph Aamidor has 12 years of experience in the building and energy management industry and currently provides independent consulting and advisory services. Previously, he served as Director of Product at Lucid Design Group and was a product manager at Johnson Controls. He frequently speaks at industry events and regularly publishes articles on the energy and smart building industry. Connect with him on Twitter (@jaamidor) and LinkedIn (at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaamidor).

Joseph Aamidor

Frameworks

Product Requirements: Using a Written or Visual Framework

Co-founder of <a href="http://www.prodpad.com">ProdPad</a> and Mind the Product who run ProductTank, ProductCamp London and Mind the Product conferences in London and San Francisco. Blogs about Product Management at MindTheProduct.com &amp; ProdPad.com. Simon began his career in Space Engineering, where he developed a Fortran realtime program to automate satellite operations. He then traveled around the world before a stint in the Australian Army.

Simon Cast

Why you Need a Sense of Urgency in Product

Evgeny is a product manager with a PhD in Robotics. While doing doctoral research, he dipped toes in innovation management and started building software products. He's currently based in Singapore where he leads product development in one of the fastest growing tech ecosystems in the world. Evgeny also organizes ProductTank Singapore. <b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgenylazarenko/">Follow Evgeny on LinkedIn</a></b>.

Evgeny Lazarenko

Product Management is Culture Management

Gleb Smolich is a developer with four years of experience in IT, working at Agentestudio in Minsk, Belarus. His prime area of expertise is the development of RoR-based web applications.