Productized Podcast

Mihaela Draghici is a Product Manager at Volkswagen Digital Solutions. She is a Marketing woman that turned into a Tech woman. Mihaela is known for her passion, professionalism, and changemaker attitude both within her work and personal life. She is a strong advocate for gender equality and inclusive work environments in tech industries.

What does Mihaela do when she’s not in the office? She is passionate about travelling, outdoors cycling, hiking and yoga.

Meet Sabrina Rzepka, Lead PM In-Car Commerce at BMW and Co-Founder of Product Professionals. In this interview, you'll be able to understand the difference between project and product management: How do you know which way is right? Where should be your focus? If you want to become a PM and don't know where to start, listen to this interview. You won't regret it!

Get to know Karianna Johnson, Senior Product Manager at Zalando. From Seattle to Berlin, Karianna's route is super curious! She started as a UX writer and today is a successful PM, with business and customer experience by her side. Don't miss this new interview and get inspired by this amazing #GirlsWhoProduct.

Get to know one of the workshop trainers of Productized Online 2020. Sarah Garcia, curious by nature, has a huge passion for understanding human behaviour, listening to the user and always motivating her team to do it. In this interview, we won't only talk about UX... We'll go deeper into the real-life aspects (the balance between work and private life and how to cope with it). Join us until the end, we are sure you won't regret it!

Meet Franziska Roth, a person that cannot stand still, does what it takes to consumer research and never leaves her team behind. "Essentially, you cannot monitor anything that you cannot measure. Especially when it comes to humans measuring, it is not that straightforward." A fun interview with a contemporary art and scuba diving lover! Listen until the end, so you will have many more surprises.

Get to know Chiara Quaglia, who, while not cycling the marathon, challenges her team to be better and better. “It’s impossible for you be good at everything when you’re applying for a job you've never done. It’s impossible for you to be able to bring your product management experience if you've never done it and that maybe will block you even to try. But that's the wrong attitude.” Listen to this episode and end up being taken by surprise!

Get to know Mathilde Caron, very passionate person both at and outside of work. As a former high-level gymnast for most of her youth, she learned early on to be perseverant, to never give in, to try over and over again and to turn failure into fuel for success. She developed a certain fascination early on her career for e-commerce companies, where the focus is on customer-centricity and data-driven decision-making, which has allowed her to make use of her analytical skills. Now, she is living in Berlin, working as a Product Manager for personalized recommendations at Zalando. If you can’t find her at her desk, you will probably find her on the other side of the planet hiking a mountain (her true happy place!).

How to work from home during the pandemic? What are the biggest obstacles for women in Product Management? Where can product creators find a safe place?

In this special edition of #GirlsWhoProduct, we chatted with Catherine Louis, a co-founder of #PoDojo in Berlin and a Scrum trainer. As the COVID-19 outbreak urged for virtual collaboration, Catherine and her team continue to give creative training and design sprints for product people in online mode. In this interview Catherine shared with us some insights on her life, on her career journey and on the new product reality we now are living.

"Inbal Arieli fostered her entrepreneurial skills during her mandatory military service, serving as a lieutenant in Unit 8200 (reads: 8–2 hundred), the Israel Defense Forces' elite intelligence corps. This elite technology unit's alumni who enter into the civilian market have earned a reputation for their unique entrepreneurial skills and for creating outstanding, successful, and innovative startups. After completing her military duties, and for the past twenty years, she embraced leading executive roles in the flourishing Israeli tech sector and has founded a series of programs for innovators, where she currently holds board seats.

Let me just tell you that Inbal's most recent book is already on sale, and as mentioned it's called Chutzpah: Why Israel Is a Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

As you might have heard, despite its small size, Israel has the highest concentration of start-ups per capita worldwide and attracts more venture capital per capita than any other country on the planet. What factors have led to these remarkable achievements, and what secrets do Israeli tech entrepreneurs know that others can learn?

By the way, if you're wondering what Chutzpah means, it's a noun and t's pronounced (/ˈxʊtspə, ˈhʊt-/) and according to Inbal's own dictionary (http://www.chutzpahdictionary.com/) is being brutal honesty, usually at the price of sounding presumptuous, arrogant or rude. e.g "It takes chutzpah to tell your boss he's wrong."

Let's get started with this conversation, shall we?"

Read more at: https://medium.com/@Productized/girlswhoproduct-inbal-arieli-58500139893f

Our next guest of #GirlsWhoProduct series is Lauren McKinlay. With an academic background in Product & Furniture design from an art school in Scotland, she found her perfect match in Product Management. Today, Lauren is a Senior Product Manager at Outfits team at Zalando who really knows how to sharpen up your look. Her passions are storytelling and communication as she believes that we are absolutely better “when we are in it together.”

Check out this interview and discover how the power of listening can help you become a great product manager!

Read the entire podcast here: https://medium.com/@Productized/girlswhoproduct-lauren-mckinlay-2ad45e7d3ea9