I have developed a list of women in the product management career stack who are active on social media (mainly Twitter or LinkedIn). According to recent surveys, only 35% of product management roles are filled by women, and the majority of those roles are entry-level, meaning they are often separated from decision-making power. And this is to the detriment of businesses who want to surpass their rivals.
SC Moatti: Do you want to add more users to your account? Create a mobile application. Do you want to know what to think about while becoming mobile? Count on SC Moatti, the author of Mobilized, a book that examines the intersection of business goals and mobile products via case studies ranging from large tech companies (Facebook) to small startups (Uber). She has had product management positions at Facebook, Trulia, Nokia, and Electronic Arts. With that background, she is now a managing partner at Mighty Capital, where she invests in startups, launched Products That Count, the world’s most influential worldwide network of product managers, and serves on the board of Opera, a browser software firm.
Inga Chen: Spotify’s objective is to provide a platform for millions of artists to reach billions of fans. With a market capitalization of $22 billion and 248 million active users, that objective is succeeding. It relies largely on personalization—recommending playlists, podcasts, and songs. Inga Chen, a Senior Product Manager of Personalization at Spotify, is important in achieving this goal. She is in charge of the teams that developed the machine learning algorithms that power playlists, including Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and the Daily Remix. She is also the founder of the Women In Product Chapter in New York City.
Kasey Cuppoletti: Nonprofits are more important than ever to the well-being of our communities as the coronavirus continues to inflict worldwide havoc. DonorDrive is at the forefront of ensuring that nonprofit personnel can “raise money and do good” by providing an app that allows them to simply arrange events, automate donor communications, provide business statistics, and integrate with a variety of internet platforms. And Kasey Cuppoletti, DonorDrive’s Head of Product, is in charge of making sure everything fits together. She has been in charge of expanding DonorDrive’s product marketing and quality assurance teams, as well as developing solutions for medium and large nonprofit clients and developing the strategy for connecting DonorDrive to Salesforce’s CRM.
Jenny Wolochow: In ever-changing work environments, it’s critical for people wishing to further their careers to have access to high-quality, low-cost learning alternatives that match their schedules. Coursera, which has attracted more than $300 million in venture capital and has over 20 million users, is at the cutting edge of education technology. It collaborates with Duke, Google, Stanford, and a number of other famous institutions to develop courses in business, data science, artificial intelligence, and a variety of other subjects. Jennifer Wolochow, a senior product manager at Coursera for over six years, assists university partners in adapting to online education, leads communications and projects extolling Coursera’s benefits to a worldwide market, and assists in the integration of end-user feedback into the platform.
Hope Gurion: Hope Gurion, the former Chief Product Officer at Career Builder, has over a decade of product development experience and has led more than 40 product teams over her career. Through her consulting firm, Fearless Product, she’s now taking that knowledge on the road. Gurion works with product managers and teams to assist them to achieve “growth through customer-centric, data-driven initiatives.” She also discusses her experience as a woman in product leadership on her podcast “Fearless Product Leadership,” where she shares her product skills.