As a senior-level Product Manager, my job is to understand the big picture, the most important goals, and how to get a team there.
Proficiencies
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Product vision: Create long-term roadmaps, align goals to actionable milestones, write meaningful user stories, prioritize features, strive towards one goal
Strategic thinking: Understand the business side of the product, conduct market research, work with growth and marketing
Communication: Manage clients and expectations, find multiple formats (audio, visual, asynchronous, etc) that work for different people, keep public notes
Technical comfort: Understand the product well enough to gauge effort needed, communicate technical jargon, and stay aligned with engineers
Problem-solving: Unblock issues as they come, bring needed parties together to discuss the difficult topics, create paths to success
Impact metrics: Find the right data that supports the bigger narrative, create theories of change with short, medium, and long-term outcomes -
Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner from The Scrum Alliance
Product Management Certificate from the Product School
CORe Certificate in Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting from Harvard Business School Online -
Project management: Notion, Google suite, Microsoft suite, Slack, Airtable, Monday.com, Citrix, Salesforce
Product management: ZenHub, Atlassian, Jira, Miro, Figma
Low-code tools: Squarespace, WordPress, API integrations including Zapier -
Workshops: Product discovery workshops, project kick-offs, alignment meetings, ideation sessions, prioritization workshops, rapid prototyping facilitation
Trainings: Staff on-boardings, technical demos, written guides, educational videos, live walkthroughs
Some kind words
“Emily models what it looks like to be a Leader on the Consulting team as our Senior PM. I really appreciate her commitment to the work we are doing and the care she takes of our clients. Across projects big and small, Emily knows how to build relationships with the client and motivate the team to produce high quality deliverables.”
— Bonnie Goode, Director of Product
“Emily played a pivotal role in achieving our project goals. She was incredibly adept at navigating a sizable project involving multiple visions of success, helping our team clarify what we wanted to achieve during the development of our data platform. She was able to coordinate across competing priorities, visions, tight deadlines, and even a total redirect of the project midway through, and she never failed to help us pull out what we were actually trying to accomplish and balance this with what could be achieved within our deadlines. Emily readily translated everything between our team and the product development team to keep us all moving together, and the end result was something that should be foundational for long-term goals.”
— Karl Bond, COO of RCI
“Emily's done a wonderful job being the in between for engineering and clients. On numerous occasions I've felt that she's had our backs and done what was needed to make sure we have room to do our delivery work. I also want to call out a time on RCI when things felt chaotic and she had the insight that we needed more clear roles and really took leadership in establishing them - which I felt was critical to use getting that project done.”