The Product Podcast

Kathleen Cohen, former Product Manager at Disney, discussed overall Experience Strategy as it relates to Product Development. Her discussion covers video game, web, mobile, interactives, AR/VR and the expectation of a PM in those roles from within. With the convergence of medias and IoT, it’s only natural that a PM’s role is expected to have the 10,000 ft. view into integrated media products and their future lifecycle.Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

"Satisfying customer needs better than the competitors in your market" is the key to launching high-growth products and the key to your success as a product manager. But, what is a customer need? Who is your real competition? What does it mean to be "satisfied?" And, by the way, what is a market? In this talk a Growth Partner at thrv, Jared Ranere, talked about how you'll learn how Jobs-to-be-Done answers the questions in a way that aligns your development team around your customer, gives you precise, measurable customer needs, and helps you know if your feature idea will deliver customer satisfaction before your team writes a line of code.Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

As a PM you will want to know about Data Analytics and how to work with a team of data scientists to build a product users will love and trust. In this talk, Kristian Hansen, Group Product Manager at Levi's, talks about understanding the basics of data analytics and its use in start ups as well as large companies. He also discusses the importance of knowing how to frame problems for both data and engineering stakeholders and Interpret feedback from data team to communicate confidently with business stakeholders. Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

Many people who want to become product managers worry about amassing technical expertise. During this talk, Jasper Sherman-Presser, Senior Product Manager for video at LinkedIn, argued that to be a great product manager, you first need to understand people. You also need to understand people's problems and desires in order to build products that address them. In addition, he said that PM's need to understand people's motivations to guide a team to build and deliver products and you need to be able to capture value in metrics that are people-centric. Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

This talk was geared towards a non-technical audience interested in the magic and wonder of open source. The PM at KEMP Technologies, Danny Rosen, went over what open source is, why it's important, what it means to have an open source product and why it's important to customers. He discussed what open source actually means and the different types of open source products and business models that exist. Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

Building an analytics strategy is crucial for every product manager. How do you build and implement an effective product analytics strategy that quantifies and drives product success and iteration? The Director of Product at Electronic Arts, Bertram Chan, talks about how data analytics is no longer a luxury, its a competitive and integral need for Product Managers. He also discussed how PM's can understand not only who your users are but how they behave.Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

Ashish Toshniwal, PayPal mobile app creator and founder of Y Media Labs, shared the keys to successful agency-client relationships and how to execute customer research effectively. He also talked about the best practices for communicating throughout the product lifecycle. Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

Understanding your users and how they discover and adopt your products is very important in building a product. Especially on mobile. Slack's Mobile Product Manager, Jules Walter, discussed growth principles and tactical techniques in gaining and retaining a strong user base.Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

Everyone wants to work on the next big thing but what's the difference between working on an existing product, a new product, or new technology? Goodreads Senior Product Manager, Jessica Johnson, talked about this and about how new technologies always move slower than you expect. Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here

Ever wondered what it's like to work as a product manager? Tinder's Senior Product Manager, Samantha Stevens, answered the audience's questions about product management, challenges she's faced as a PM, how to become one and what Tinder is like as a product. Social Links: Follow our Podcast on Tik Tok here Follow Product School on LinkedIn here Join Product School's free events here Find out more about Product School here