Discussion panel - Designing and Leading a Product Organization

by Laura Marino, Guest Lecturer Stanford, SVP Product, Lever — SVP Product @ Lever

Panellists: 

• Rich Mironov, Product mentor, Author, and Smokejumper Head of Product
  
• Laura Marino, SVP Product at Lever and Board Member of Leading Women in Technology
  
• Neeraj Mathur, VP of Products at ForUsAll 
  
• Lalita Ponnekanti, Director of Product Management, Chief of Staff, Sabre 

What we will discuss

We’ll start this panel discussion with some thoughts from each presenter on their own product organizations, how they designed their team structure and some executive-level product leadership challenges.  Then we’ll open it up for questions from attendees, such as:

• How do you know how big a product team you need?
  
• Hiring strategies and team mix among experience product managers, newbies and subject experts
  
• Consumer versus B2B/enterprise product teams: what’s different?
  
• Building bridges to development teams, C-suite, Sales…
  
• Interviews, biases, advice for job seekers