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Sunday Rewind: Whose job is it anyway? The rise of Product Ops and why it deserves to be an independent function

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Leading product ops at Delivery Hero with Koen Dubelaar

Connecting fans to creators at Spotify (Dariusz Dziuk, Product Lead, Spotify)

“You’re not as competent as you think” 5 lessons from Ken Chin on navigating a product career (CPO, Spark Networks)

Everything wrong with the product management job market. And how to fix it

Julia is a fitness enthusiast originally with a business background. Starting off her career in a fintech startup in Berlin, she discovered her love for products and a curiosity for software engineering. She now has four years experience in product management and is currently working as a product manager at Freeletics.

Julia Weiper

As product managers, our job is to make the right decisions. However, as human beings, our decision-making is constantly impaired by systematic cognitive biases, making it really hard to decide objectively and rationally. For example, we look up to our most successful peers and are therefore biased to follow industry leaders such as Spotify, Soundcloud, or Google. This phenomenon is known as the “survivorship bias”.
In my talk at MTP Engage in Hamburg, I illustrate how following industry standards can jeopardize the success of your company. In the example of Freeletics, blindly copying the organisational structure of leading tech companies led us to a critical situation for the business towards the end of 2017.
After a rational analysis of the situation, we were confident enough to try an approach that was different from the rest of the industry.  As a result, we restructured the entire product and engineering department and took some risky bets.
By giving concrete examples of our framework toolbox and of successful A/B test results, I explain how Freeletics managed to break the chains and return to a healthy business.
During this challenging and intense journey, I gained much valuable knowledge and a strong understanding of the importance of following your instincts and simply using your common sense, instead of blindly copying others. I want to invite my audience to challenge their way of thinking and to reflect more consciously on the accepted best practices of the industry.

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It’s the Strategy, stupid – Andrew Martinez-Fonts (VP Product, Honeysales)

LLM workflows for product managers: 3 key takeaways (Niloufar Salehi, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley) – ProductTank SF

How to survive the next phase of tech – Jonty Sharples (Product and Strategy Consultant)

Transformed: Moving to the product model by Marty Cagan

Product teams in flux – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: Berlin

AI in practice at Berlin’s leading companies – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: Berlin

Product teams in flux – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: Amsterdam

Product teams in flux – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: London

What’s next for product management in 2024? Nichole Mace (SVP Product and User Experience, Pendo)

A Flop or a Bull’s-Eye by Julia Weiper

Julia Weiper