Product Pioneers

When we talk about freelancers we usually have in mind Software developers or Designers. But what if we tell you that Product Managers can freelance as well? Our guest Armine, having more than 4 years of freelance experience and more than 9 years of experience in Product told us about her journey to Product Management, how is it to freelance, which products are suitable for it which not, and even for who can do it. We also talked about team dynamics and leadership as it is

In this episode, we talked with great professional Alexander Hipp - Sr. Product Manager from N26 and co-creator of PM library - an endless resource of reading recommendations for Product Manager and not only. We discussed continuous discovery, starting a career as a Product Manager, the importance of talking to users, and how to build a company culture. Join waitlist of PM Library https://thepmlibrary.com/waitinglist/

Whenever companies scale and grow bigger, sooner or later, they are facing communication and alignment issues. More and more time is needed to discuss various topics, yet it doesn't always as good as expected. So what to do? You, our careful listener, already heard about alignments from our previous speakers. Since we got so much positive feedback and requests to dig deeper, we asked CODE Partner and our big friend Xing to tell us about their very own and unique alignment framework for collaborative alignment "Auftragsklärung." You can go to auftragsklaerung.com and download the canvas right now (for free and without registration)

In this episode, we talked to Dmitry M - Fintech & Insurtech product leader, CPO, at Alteos (an Axa Konzern AG company). Formerly, Vice President Product at COYA AG and Head of Product and Managing Director at Kreditech. We talked about the way from Product Manager to CPO, how to build a product from scratch, and the difference between building a startup and being part of a company. Book mentioned: Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by  Austin Kleon Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn - Product Pioneers

Fabian, PM student at CODE and also Co-Founder of Social Music platform Bouncy, told us how he and his colleague came up with the idea, pivoted, turned to a startup, raise funds, and made the partnership with big labels. Why Gen Z and how hard it is to target them.   More than Music podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aAhRryyr5F7OMhqedBBv9Follow us on Linkedin, Instagram, and share it with your friends.  Pure Product Management Podcast. 

From the financial sector, Lubomila, our guest from this episode, had decided after a personal experience, changed her life and career, and approached one of the biggest and wicked problems from our planet: Global climate change.  She explained how she came up with the idea and found PlanA.Earth, her personal experience with self-learning, and gave us 5 valuable tips on being a good Product Manager.Subscribe here to get notified every time a new episode comes out.Now you can follow us on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-pioneers/Hiring page: https://plana.earth/career 

Lukas and Jonas are co-founders od MySoftwareScout - the platform for SMEs to select the right software provider faster. They started at CODE as an official project, got funded by APX, and successfully sold their product to onetool. Guys shared with us their journey, learnings, and pitfalls told us how to choose the right target audience, and why maybe you need a 1000 landing pages.Book mentioned:Eric Ries "The Lean Startup"Subscribe to our episodes and follow us on Linkedin "Product Pioneers Podcast"

In this week’s episode, we talked with Joerg Decker Product Owner in mobile Commerce at Metronom. We discussed definition of OKRs, implementing them and tracking their progress. We dug deeper on metronome’s goals and aligning them with Metro’s vision and more! Our huge friend Metronom is METRO’s spearhead and backbone on its journey into the future of food.With about 2,000 tech experts spread in various locations, every day they design, implement, test, continuously deploy and run hundreds of micro services and digital solutions driving the business in 25 countries. 

This week’s episode is all about how to make your product USER CENTRIC TO THE MAX! Starting with User research, knowing the difference between qualitative research and quantitative research, successfully conducting user interviews and tests, and learning how to become data-driven truly! And who’s the best person to talk about that?! Lisa Mo Wagner, Senior Product Manager at Finiata, an awesome fintech startup that offers an automated credit solution to small businesses in Europe. But that’s not it; she is an entrepreneur herself, speaker, and Ambassador for WomenTech Network and Created what’s probably going to stay the fluffiest name for a framework to help teams make the best out of their meetings! PANDA, which stands for: Purpose - Agenda - Note-taking -Decisions- Action.

For this episode, we’ll be discussing a topic that we highly value and see the importance of it as Product Managers - Accessibility in Digital Products! This topic is important and personal, and we feel that it’s our responsibility here at Product Pioneers to shed some light on it. It only fits to bring on a fantastic guest who is an expert, and advocate at the topic! Franziska Hauck is a coach, consultant, and advocate. With her experience as a people lead, she coaches engineering managers, developers, and primarily those working in tech. She has consulted startups, content hubs, and Bootcamp providers. Previously regional lead for the developer relations community programs at Google, she has also worked as a product owner, project manager, and community manager.Want to learn more about how to make your products accessible for everyone?https://accessibility-club.org/https://accessibilitymeetup.eu/https://a11y-meetup-berlin.de/https://youtu.be/iC_ie3q6OyISubscribe to our episodes, and don’t forget to give us 5 🌟 Follow us on Instagram - @codeuniversity Check the Website -https://code.berlin/en/