People of Productboard

We sit down with Bara Votápková, a Senior QE engineer at Productboard, to explore the highs and lows of engineering, the blend of technical and interpersonal skills required, and how her personal journey reflects the collaborative culture at Productboard. This episode is packed with valuable insights on career growth, overcoming challenges, and how to thrive as a woman in tech.

Bara takes us through her inspiring journey from initia...

We chat with Elizabeth Chase, Manager of EMEA Sales at Productboard, about how surviving a very challenging macroeconomic climate helped reshape our sales approach, placing a bigger emphasis on customer communication, connection, and trust. We discuss the pros and cons of the job, what makes a good salesperson, and why you should never take the word “no” personally.    

Chase shares why she feels Productboard is on the cusp of unloc...

We chat with Cris Domingo, Head of People, Culture, and Talent at Productboard, about the key shift many HR departments have made in recent years, taking a more proactive approach toward people. 

In a post-Covid world, companies have had to adapt and embrace changes in their office environments, with HR essentially becoming champions of culture and fostering career growth with employees.

We discuss the importance of trust, ...

In the fifth episode of Season 2, we sit down with Jaroslav Tran, Growth Product Manager at Productboard, to talk about why many companies are turning to product-led growth to help secure more customers. We also take a closer look at why product teams in general have become so important to marketing and sales acceleration. 

Customer needs are rapidly evolving. These days, a lot more users want to try products before a...

In the fourth episode of Season 2, we sit down with Eva Novotná, a Product Manager at Productboard, to go over the skills you’ll need to successfully lead a product team, including the three core ones: seamless communication, keen professional analysis, and ruthless prioritization. Eva emphasizes the important role soft skills and routine feedback play when closely collaborating with various teams on a daily basis. 

We explore the d...

In our third episode of Season 2, we sit down with Malwina Fojcik, Senior Product Design Manager at Productboard, to discuss why seamless cross-functional collaboration, now more than ever before, is essential to modern work environments. Team members – regardless if they are designers, engineers, or product managers – need to be encouraged to take full responsibility of every aspect of a project in order to guarantee its success. ...

In our second episode of Season 2, we sat down with Josh Jones, Senior Sales Development Manager for the EMEA region, to talk about powering through the volatile fourth quarter of 2022. 
He shares the lessons we learned during this turbulent period, stressing the importance of actionable strategies, guidelines and roadmaps, and the value of team collaboration and experimentation. 

He looks ahead at Productboard’s goals...

For our 11th episode, we sat down with Pavel Spacil, Senior Software Engineer, to discuss his journey from Java to Kotlin — and Productboard.

During an interesting discussion, Pavel shares the challenges and benefits he encountered while learning a new programming language from scratch. We also discuss why Productboard shifted its focus towards Kotlin, and how Pavel is using it in our Insights tribe to build out critical f...

What is product-led growth, and is it true that your product growth team can become your new GTM team?

In our tenth episode, we catch up with Japna Sethi, Product Growth Leader at Productboard, to discuss the impact of product growth to unlock revenue, what product-led growth really means, and what people often get wrong about product growth and product design.

Japna shares what it takes to be a successful growth...

Customers are the lifeblood of every successful business – and no more so than in the subscription economy, where the pressure is on to deliver value at every step. In our ninth episode, we catch up with Taylor McGuire, Customer Success Leader at Productboard, to discuss his sabbatical in South Africa, the critical role that customer success plays, how to build an effective CS team at scale, and the exciting opportunities our own C...

In our eighth episode, we sit down with Martin Pelán, also known as Rewo, to discuss his transition from product design to the role of brand and communication designer, where he played a central role in our recent brand refresh. Rewo also talks about his passion outside of work: building and playing computer games.

References:

•  Sine the Game
• Join us at Productboard as a Product Designer 🚀

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In our fourth episode, Ashley talks about how she moved from New York to Prague. How she met Geda and be hired to productboard for Customer Success and after a few months, she moved to the Event Manager role.Also, Ashley will provide a little sneak peek about our annual productboard offsite.

Interested in joining our team? We're hiring across multiple departments. Check out our careers page for the latest vacancies. We’d love t...

In our third episode, Jakub talks about his current role and his focus for Developer Experience (DX) in productboard. He's using tools like Danger JS, GitHub bots or custom lint rules. Also, he's leading our open-source initiative under productboard labs.Jakub's GitHub: https://github.com/jukbenproductboard labs: https://github.com/productboardlabsDanger JS: https://danger.systems/js/https://www.productboard.com/

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In our second episode, Terka talks about her time as the people ops lead at productboard. Terka's goal is to make sure our hiring candidates have a great experience. But that's not all! She also works with the developer community to make sure they know and are excited by productboard.

Interested in joining our team? We're hiring across multiple departments. Check out our careers page for the latest vacancies. We’d lov...

In our first episode, Maurice talks about his first few weeks as a front-end developer at productboard. He also talks about why he moved from the Netherlands to enjoy the beautiful mountains in the Czech Republic and how we got his job while interviewing in a taxi cab in India!Here you can read about his first four weeks at productboard: https://www.productboard.com/blog/what-ive-done-learned-and-taught-during-my-first-4-weeks-as-a...