The Samelogic Podcast

Angel Jaime is the Chief Product Officer at Yayzy, a London-based startup focused on helping individuals and businesses act against climate change based on their financial data. Throughout his 10+ year career, Angel has led the launch of mobile apps, b2b, and b2c products, and led product teams at global eCommerce and Fintech players such as Booking.com [http://booking.com/], Revolut, and Just Eat. Angel has an Executive Master of Business Administration from EADA Business School and a Master's Degree in Business Intelligence. He is also a Product Management instructor at Product School and publishes the weekly product management newsletter www.elproducto.eu [http://www.elproducto.eu/].

Parth is a tenured product leader, experienced in driving products from conception to launch across Enterprise and Consumer technologies. Parth started his product career at Dell Technologies, leading the B2B eCommerce experience as a group product manager and launching a patented checkout experience for high-volume eCommerce events such as Black Friday. Parth is currently a product manager at Amazon Alexa and owns smart home products and technologies that power core voice interactions, such as "Alexa, turn on the living room lights."

Chandrika is a Growth Product Manager at Plaid, a company that provides the easiest way for people to connect their financial accounts to an app. She joined Plaid after spending ~2 years in a Growth Product role at DocuSign and a summer stint at Nike. Chandrika shares what her journey into product management looked like, how she uses her experience from DocuSign in her current role at Plaid, and what experimentation in her role looks like.

As the Senior Director of Product at Textio, Jon Leads Product Management and Product Marketing. Before entering the startup world, Jon started his career as a PM at Microsoft, where he focused on transforming the user experiences of its most widely used products.

Adam Cheyer, the co-founder of Siri, speaks with Dwayne Samuels about the benefits of experimentation and allowing data to drive product decisions. Adam talks about the strategy he uses to know when’s the right time to bring ideas to market and the tools he uses for Go-To-Market initiatives.

Host Dwayne Samuels continues the chat with Steve about IBM's history in AI. Steve talks about the strategy used at IBM in AI and the history of Watson, and the growth mindset behind decisions Steve made as a GTM Product Manager.

Steve spent 40+ years at IBM, where he started as a Software Programmer and later became the GTM Product Manager and Product Manager for Strategic Watson Partners. As a former GTM Product Manager at IBM, Steve's goal was to bring order out of chaos. He talks about the changes in the market and in AI from back then compared to now. Steve speaks with host Dwayne Samuels about his roles at IBM and tells us the difference and similarities between being a Software Analysis and a Product Manager.

Hiro started as a Customer Success Manager in Japan and was the first CSO hire in their Tokyo office. He moved to the US to continue as a CSM for their biggest global clients.  As a Product Marketing Manager at LinkedIn, his mission is to successfully develop and manage international market acceleration strategies, and executing targeted regional market  "launches" with comprehensive integrated GTM motions. Hiro speaks with host Dwayne Samuels about his role at LinkedIn and how the PMM role overlaps with the role of a PM.  Music: When You Wake Up by Diana Taylor

After spending the first half of her career creating beautiful artifacts for audiences to be persuaded by, Vanessa decided to design products that people could use to feel smarter and more in control. This is the reason she joined Facebook as a User Experience Researcher on the New Product Experimentation team. Vanessa talks with Dwayne Samuels about how Product Managers can use various research methods to properly interact with their users. Music: Joseph McDade - Glacial Waves