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Ladies of Productin association with Women of Walmart ( WoW) present "Trends in Product Hiring - Demystifying the perfect answer!"You've read "Cracking the PM Interview" cover-to-cover. And studied with Lewis Lin. Don't prepare for your next interview in a vaccum; good products requires feedback, & so do good PMs.Come join us in a night filled with fun, food & and actionable insights! We'll hear from industry leaders on what they consider to be the ideal answer to popular PM questions, so you'll have insights on what some of the most influential companies are looking for at the end of the evening.All ages & genders welcome to attend this event!
FEATURED PANELISTS (BIOs BELOW)
AarthiRamachandran- Product Managerat Google | Android Automotive
PriyaLakshminarayanan -Sr. Director of Product at PayPal |Platform Infrastructure
CathyConk- Director of Product Innovation at Netflix | Growth
Hema Budaraju-Director of Productat Facebook | Health
Liliya McLean- Product Leader at LinkedIn | Communications
Michal Russ -Sr. Director of Product at Walmart Labs | Omnichannel Retail
Rosa Welton-Group Product Manager at eBay |Commerce & Marketplace
AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM: Attendees Check-In
6:30 - 7:00 PM: Dinner with Speaker AMA
7:00 - 8:00 PM: Introduction, "Is it your final answer" Panelist Discussion
8:00 - 8:30 PM: More Networking!
SPEAKER BIOs
Aarthi Ramachandranis a seasoned product leader with over 9 years of product management & engineering experience in the technology industry. She began her career as a software developer at Advanced Micro Devices & Deloitte Consulting. Aarthi recently joined Google as a Product Manager working on the embedded Android platform for automotive (Android for cars) to enable safe & connected experiences for users. Before joining Google, she was with Amazon Music for 18 months launching Data Platform products to enable ML product development for search & personalization. She also spent four years with Expedia optimizing the hotel & car search experiences with ML for Hotwire.com. Aarthi holds a Masters degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University & a Bachelors degree in electronics & communication engineering from PSG Technology.Aarthi has a three year old son, Vivaan, & has been married to her husband, Varun, for six years. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, traveling with her family & binging on good TV shows.
CathyConkis a director of product innovation on the growth team at Netflix. After starting her career in marketing,Cathymoved into product shortly after joining Netflix almost seven years ago. She started as the product manager for growth messaging before moving to member notifications, & is now focused on growth, especially international.Cathyhad never traveled outside the US before joining Netflix & has now visited 20 countries, some for work & some for fun!
Hema Budarajuis the Product Lead for Health at Facebook, where she leads a team focused on helping communities improve global health outcomes. As part of this role, she recently launched a Blood Donations feature on Facebook in October 2017 in India, to make it easier for people to donate blood & help address the shortage of safe blood. It has now expanded to Bangladesh, Pakistan & Brazil, & there are more than 20 million blood donors signed up on Facebook.
Before health, Hema was the Head of Product for Facebook Events & Emerging Verticals, & helped grow Facebook Events to over 700 million people a month to create, discover, & share events posted on Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Hema held leadership roles at Paypal, eBay, Amazon, Nokia & Oracle. Hema has an Engineering degree in Electronics & an MBA. She holds 6 patents & has been nominated to the Silicon Valley Women of Influence. Hema is also passionate about supporting STEM for kids & Women in Technology - & is a founding member of Women in Product.
Liliya McLeanis a high-performing product leader, with experience from top social media & retail organizations in machine learning-dependent, scalable enterprise applications. For the past 6 months, she has been the head of communications relevance for LinkedIn. Prior to that, Liliya was the lead for Home Depot's multibillion dollars Enterprise Search team & Walmart's personalization & item recommendations multi-tenant team, which drove customized experiences across all Walmart brands & communication channels (i.e. Walmart US & CA,Sam's Club, ASDA George (UK), Jet.com, Walmart Grocery, Savings Catcher & CRM campaigns).
Some of her focus areas include but are not limited to: predictive demand relevance models, knowledge graphs, advanced machine learning applications (deep learning, R/C neural networks, Natural Language Processing), optimization of semantic & long tail results, search relevance & precision (query scoping, relaxation, rewriting, etc.), as well as introduction of next-gen concept search & personalized query results based on intent, customer features & segmentation.
Liliya holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, & 2 Masters degrees in Computer Science & Software Engineering.
Michal Russ is a senior director of product management at Walmart's international ecommerce organization. She leads the product group for ecommerce in Mexico. In that capacity she leads the work on 3 platform & all horizontal platform components (such as payments or supply chain). Michal recently joined Walmart from Uncommon.co, a startup in the recruiting space where she was the COO. Prior to that she worked at Walmart US in the Online Grocery team, leading customer experience. This included leading the teams working on the US OG communication, lockers, mobile check-in, apps, website, EBT, & more. Michal has a decade of retail experience & is passionate about ecommerce & serving our customer.
Michal is also the mother of Daniel (4.5) & Ben (7 months). Her skillset as a mother include singing the Trolls & Moana soundtracks while breast feeding a baby & making chocolate chip pancakes (true story).
PriyaLakshminarayananis Sr. Dir of Product with the Core Platform Infrastructure group at PayPal. She leads product for PayPal's Behavioral Analytics, Search, Notifications & other core platform services. She is a product management leader with over 14 years of experience in building & launching Big Data & Cloud service offerings. Her strong engineering background combined with a sense of empathy for the customer enables her to seamlessly span engineering & business work streams to launch key initiatives. Prior to PayPal, she has shipped a variety of products such as Microsoft .Net Framework, Expression Studio, Windows Azure services & EMC Elastic Cloud Storage at industry leading technology companies such as Microsoft & EMC.Priyaholds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.Rosa Weltonis an eCommerce & Marketplace Product Leader with experience at eBay, TrueCar, Walmart Labs, & Food Network. She leads the product team for the core selling experience on eBay. On weekends Rosa enjoys hosting dinner parties & coaching others to do the same. While at Yale University she became really good at tackling opponents on the rugby field.
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