Progression Podcast

Jackie Bavaro was most recently Head of Product Management for eight years at Asana, the well-loved work management software, where she joined pre-launch as the first PM. During her tenure, she grew the PM team to over twenty amazing people, helped Asana's go from $0 to more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, and launched Asana's associate product manager program. Jackie has since written two fantastic books on PM careers - 'Cracking the PM career' and 'Cracking the PM interview'. In this episode we talk about Jackie's growth as a PM at Asana, defining impact in role, working with founders, navigating feedback and her 'Do, Try, Consider' framework which we've now implemented at Progression. Links Jackie on Twitter Jackie on Amazon Jackie's tweet referencing the framework we talk about in the podcast Jackie's interview on Lenny's pod Do, Try, Consider Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email [email protected] and tell us more. Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539 Progression is free for your first team of 10 Sign up at progression.co

This week Jonny chats to Steve Bianchi, CHRO and COO of talent operating system Beamery. A real futurist and systems thinker, Steve gets into the future of the people team, why people leaders make good Chief Operating Officers and imagines a future where we’re hired not based on our university and CV but by our skills and ambition. Links: Steve on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenbianchi Beamery: https://beamery.com/ Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email [email protected] and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539

In this episode Jonny chats to Lucas Coelho — VP of design at Roam Digital — about growing as a leader, his thoughts on how to build a bench of good junior folks, being honest and learning from failure and his experience building progression frameworks and using Progression. Lucas is a Progression customer, but we try and steer well clear of that until the very end. Lucas Links: https://lucascoelho.co/ https://twitter.com/coelholucas Lucas's talk at Figma Config: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsSKDh8gBg Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email [email protected] and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: https://progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539

In this episode, Jonny chats with Brian about the rise of the very senior IC (Individual Contributor) - a subject close to our heart at Progression. We also go into the process of creating a startup and Brian's experience building and exiting Spectrum, his mixed feelings about how much we should be optimising for titles and putting yourself out there on the internet. Brian is a designer at Github, co-host of the very popular Design Details podcast and most recently published a collection of interviews with senior designers on staff.design. Brian Links: https://brianlovin.com/ https://twitter.com/brian_lovin https://staff.design/ https://designdetails.fm/ https://nav.al/principal-agent <- the article that Brian references that we're now obsessed with Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email [email protected] and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: https://progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539

In this episode, Sarah Clatterbuck, Senior Director of Engineering at Google sits down with Neil to discuss a whole range of topics including: What is was like in the LinkedIn engineering team as they grew from 300 to 3000 How Sarah recommends startups and scale-ups think about rolling out progression frameworks for the first time How to think about and reduce unconscious bias and anti-patterns in frameworks Links: Sarah on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahclatterbuck/ Sarah on Twitter https://twitter.com/girodchatterbox Neil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ncameron Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email [email protected] and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: https://progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539 Image credit: Kevin Scott