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Description
Exploring a career in Product Management? What does a product manager do? What will they do in the future? Product Managers who sit at the intersection of customer needs, business strategy, and technology, play a critical part in building their companies’ digital fluency so organizations can evolve and transform their products to meet market and customer demands. A career in product isn't always linear! Join STL PDMA for a panel discussion on the many pathways and job opportunities into product management.
Learning Objectives:
Takeaways:
- What product management and other product roles look like at various organizations
- Common roadblocks to product in emerging industries
- Various career paths, beneficial skills, and future growth opportunities within the field
About the Speakers
Joanna Gaskill, Sr. Director, Portfolio Management at Lumeris
Joanna is a Healthcare Data and analytics leader with more than 11 years of experience in driving strategy, solution design, coaching, and career pathing. She is currently Sr. Director of Portfolio Management, responsible for planning, development, and implementation of several Healthcare IT initiatives.
Marilyn McDonald, Sr. Vice President at Mastercard
Marilyn McDonald is Senior Vice President of Customer Interoperability within Shared Components and Security Solutions (SCSS) in Operations and Technology. In this role she is responsible for delivering business to business experience improvements through Connect - the authentication platform that customers use to do business with Mastercard, 1V4C- bringing one view of Mastercard for our customers, leading the Design and User Research, Customer Data Management, and Product Lifecycle Management groups for SCSS and, in her spare time, she is the leader of the PMT Guild in O&T.
Prior to this role at Mastercard, Marilyn was the senior director of product management and technical program management (TPM) at StubHub. She also held the position of interim CTO for 8 months, driving the overall corporate technology strategy. Additionally, she has held numerous roles at other fortune 500 companies including Citibank, Expedia, and Amazon.
Marilyn has a passion for all aspects of product development, from building simple and elegant customer experiences to defining scalable and decoupled platforms and products. Marilyn is an avid advocate of diversity and inclusion and was a founding member of Women@Amazon.
Ananya Bhattacharya, Director, Product Management at Mastercard
Ananya Bhattacharyya is an enterprising, process-driven, and globally experienced product leader at MasterCard. She has a strong technical and financial services background and continually strives to guide the creative vision, organizational change, customer-driven innovation, product transformation, and strategic thinking in her professional career.
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Rajesh Nerlikar, CEO at Prodify
Rajesh Nerlikar is a Co-Founder and Principal Product Advisor / Coach at Prodify and co-author of the best-selling product book, Build What Matters. Rajesh has more than 16 years of product management experience. Over the past 3.5 years, he’s advised/coached 33 companies on product strategy, team development, and operations, from startup founders to growth-stage product executives to entire enterprise product teams. Prior to Prodify, he was a technology consultant at Accenture, an entrepreneur, a product manager at Opower, a senior product manager at HelloWallet, a director of product at Morningstar, and the Interim Vice President of Product and Design at Savonix, a Prodify client.
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