SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 16 Kristina is currently the Chief Product Officer at Dott, a shared micro-mobility operator that is on a mission to free cities with clean rides for everyone. Kristina has been in product roles for 15+ years, and prior to Dott, she held Product lead roles at very well known companies, including Booking.com, Lyft, and Eventbrite. She started her career in product as an Associate Product Manager at Intuit. Enjoy! 📹 interview available on the #SheLeadswithCarly Fac...
Aug 11, 2022•31 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 15 Kie started off her career as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. She then received her MBA from Harvard Business School before breaking into product through internships at early stage technology companies, including Canary, Happie, and Catalant. She then joined HubSpot, where she is today, and took on various product management roles as individual contributor to leading teams. She recently joined the Payments team at HubSpot to help small B2B businesses g...
Aug 04, 2022•36 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 14 Tamar is an experienced executive and entrepreneur with experience in mobile and web in B2C environments. Currently, she is the Vice President of Product at Lumen, a wellness device and app that measures your metabolism and provides valuable insight based on your metabolic data. Prior to Lumen, she was the Chief Product Officer at Worthy.com, the VP of Product for Sears in Israel, founded her own company called Grab_It, and she was also the Chief Revenue Office...
Jul 28, 2022•32 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 13 Roni is currently the Vice President of Product at Selina, which is one of the world’s fastest growing hospitality brands Prior to Selina, Roni started her career in design and user experience. She then transitioned into product and worked primarily at AOL as their Head of Product for their B2C video. Throughout her career, Roni has experienced working in numerous different cultures, from American, English, Israeli, Finnish, and Latin American. Enjoy! 📹 interv...
Jul 21, 2022•32 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 12 Os has been in product for 20+ years, working for top companies in Senior Product roles including AOL, BBG Ventures and WeWork Labs. She is now the Co-founder and CPO of DragonsCanFly, a Web3 agency. Os is also the Co-Creator of Evolved Eggatha, an NFT project aimed to tell stories of women and she's an author. Os is taking all of her experience and expertise into writing her very own book, Starting From Scratch , which is all about managing change and making s...
Jul 13, 2022•38 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 11 Dana is now a Senior Product Manager at PayPal. She began her career in product design, to then starting her own company called Livin Media - an internet-based social sharing platform where she was also the VP of Product. After her own venture, she went back into working in technology as a Product Manager at Fiverr for 4 years. Before joining Paypal, she went on a travel sabbatical as well! Enjoy! 📹 interview available on the #SheLeadswithCarly Facebook page! ...
Jun 28, 2022•35 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 10 JZ runs product teams, advises startups, and teaches product management at Stanford University. She is currently the Vice President of Product at Webflow, a SaaS company for website building and hosting. Previously, she worked in Senior Product roles at incredibly well-known companies, including Dropbox, Wework, and Airbnb. In JZ’s spare time, she renovates houses, runs team-building workshops, and when she is not running after her 2-year-old son, she creates h...
Jun 21, 2022•43 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 9 Michal Levin is the Vice President of Product at Hero, an in-home care platform focused on medication management. Her professional career focused mostly on User Experience, and expanded into Product. She was the UX Design Lead and Manager at various companies, including Tzur, Modu, Google (as the first UX hire in Google Israel!), and Zoox. She then transitioned to the health and biotech sector and became the head of UX for Medical Devices and Clinical Trials at ...
Jun 15, 2022•33 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 8 Sanjna is a Senior Product Manager at Plaid - a financial services company. Prior to Plaid, Sanjna started her career in growth and marketing at Mulesoft. Then, she transitioned into product after Salesforce acquired Mulesoft. Sanjna has accumulated 5+ years of technical product experience in enterprise tooling, B2B, and SaaS technologies. Also, this past year, she founded Boxby, a marketplace for gifting experiences, and then relocated to Amsterdam where she is...
Jun 07, 2022•43 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 7 Lauren is a Senior Product Manager at Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms. Prior to Coinbase, Lauren's product experience primarily comes from her time at Intuit and Intercom as a Product Manager and Senior Product Manager, respectively. She also has experience in Venture Capital when she was a Principle at Streamlined Ventures. Enjoy! 📹 interview available on the #SheLeadswithCarly Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/SheLeadsShow...
May 30, 2022•42 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 6 Olivia is the Senior Director of Product Management at Slack. Prior to Slack, she was a Head of Product for Realtime Innovation at Instagram, Lead Product Manager at Twitch, and a Product Manager at gaming companies in Blizzard Entertainment and ZAM Network. However, Olivia didn’t have the conventional path into Product. She had a whole career beforehand as a professional musician, a director of asset management, to even a key player in real estate. Enjoy! 📹 in...
May 12, 2022•39 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 5 Zaria received her Bachelors degree in Design Engineering and Social Change from Harvard University in 2019. During her time at Harvard, she worked as an Analyst at J.P Morgan and at Ford Motor Company as a Product Development Intern in Research and Advanced Engineering. After graduating, she joined Twitter as an Associate Product Manager where she worked on the Consumer Privacy team and Misleading Information team during the 2020 U.S. election. Zaria is now a p...
May 03, 2022•38 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 4 Gyanda is a VP of Product at LinkedIn, specifically, the Head of LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions products. After receiving a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University and a Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, Gyanda began her career as an analyst in investment banking and then started at LinkedIn in a Associate Product Manager role. She then rose up the ranks from an APM role, to Group PM, to Dire...
Apr 25, 2022•28 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 3 After receiving her Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT, Sharmeen started her career as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard, Raytheon and Leeo. In 2015, she transitioned to product at Twitch, where she eventually became the VP of Product and Engineering. Her transition to Facebook was unconventional and took a turn where she discovered that the following few months would also include a fight against breast cancer, a journey that she is cur...
Apr 19, 2022•34 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 2 Xiaodi has been in product roles for the last 20 years, starting off as a product manager in the financial services space at NextCard and Digital Insights. She then worked at Ebay, where she went from PM to Director of Product. Before becoming CPO at 1stDibs.com, she was a Senior Director of Product at GILT. Enjoy! 📹 interview available on the #SheLeadswithCarly Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/SheLeadsShow/ Please subscribe and leave a review!...
Apr 12, 2022•32 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 1 We are kicking off Season 3! The theme of this season: SheLeads [in Product], where you will learn from the top product leaders - how they discovered and broke into product and the key aspects of being the best product leader. The first season of Season 3 is Roshni Jain, the VP of Product at Eventbrite! Roshni began her professional career in consulting at McKinsey before diving into product at Cardlytics and Udacity to now - as the VP of Product at Eventbrite. ...
Apr 05, 2022•37 min
The final guest of Season 2 is the incredible Mallun Yen! Mallun Yen has devoted the past 20 years to changing the status quo and shifting industry norms, as an enterprise executive, operator, and category-creator. These experiences laid the groundwork for Operator Collective, a venture fund and community she founded in 2018 to make venture accessible to a group critical to a startup’s success but largely left out: top operators from diverse backgrounds who have built and scaled the most admired...
May 06, 2021•40 min
Desiree Peterkin Bell is an award-winning multi-faceted political and communication strategist and international best-selling author that world leaders, visionaries, and change agents turn to when they desire to not only build a rock-solid brand, but an enduring legacy with global impact. As President and CEO of the public affairs firm, DPBell & Associates, she serves her clients by leveraging her hard-won expertise in problem solving, crisis communications, strategic counsel, and brand deve...
May 03, 2021•37 min
Amanda’s experience as a Division I basketball player in college helped her realize that she always wanted to have some connection to athletics. As she progressed into coaching basketball, she realized the one thing in her life that wasn’t where she wanted it to be: her social scene. Her (poor) experience with dating apps inspired her to start her own company with Playoff - a dating app for current and former athletes! She took her personal struggle and decided to start her own venture. So many ...
Apr 29, 2021•36 min
As a Partner at Operator Collective and Co-Founder of the Black Venture Institute, Leyla Seka continues to be at the forefront of solving deep inequalities, specifically addressing the homogeneity that is seen in the income cycle and funding for companies. However, Leyla’s innate conviction for impact came through before, especially during her time as an Executive Vice President at Salesforce, where she led an equal pay initiative that kicked off Salesforce's company-wide salary review, that ult...
Apr 26, 2021•38 min
Triin is the Co-Founder of Sie. Ventures, a capital platform who supports the most promising female founders on their fundraising journeys. Prior to Sie, Triin was an early-stage investor at The Venture Collective, Founders Factory, and Startupbootcamp. She co-founded three startups in FinTech and HRTech. Today, Triin is also the Female Founders & UK VC Channel Lead for the Global Women in VC - the world’s largest global community for women in venture capital to connect, collaborate, and cre...
Apr 22, 2021•37 min
Sharon is the President and CEO at Community Brands, a leading provider of cloud-based software to associations, nonprofits, K-12 schools and faith-based groups, who serve over 120,000 clients across the world. Prior to Community Brands, Sharon has held senior roles at top companies, including Dell, FedEx, Lenovo and more! In this episode, Sharon shares incredible advice in the importance of leading with empathy, finding your passion, and accepting moments when you’re wrong. All of this and so m...
Apr 19, 2021•34 min
As the CEO of Code First Girls, Anna has built one of the largest communities of female tech talent in the UK, with a focus of connecting women to economic opportunities and jobs in the tech industry. Prior to Code First, Anna co-founded her own EdTech startup and was the Commercial Director of Lynda.com, which was bought by LinkedIn for $1.5bn (4th largest acquisition in social media history) and is now known as LinkedIn Learning. In this episode - she talks about her transition to senior posit...
Apr 15, 2021•30 min
You won’t find many leaders like Shelley Zalis. She started off her career without a clear direction for the future. She then received her first job review that was far from praise. While most would succumb and start to conflate their own value with their job performance, Shelley did the contrary. One thing led to another, and she realized the power of standing up for yourself, setting your mind to something, and capitalizing on those opportunities. Now, Shelley is the Founder and CEO of one of ...
Apr 12, 2021•35 min
As the founder and CEO of The P5 Project, Jenna’s core focus and purpose is to help women increase their income, impact and influence. In this episode, Jenna emphasizes that raising a family and achieving your career goals are not mutually exclusive. You can do both, and you can do both successfully. She also gives incredible advice for those navigating their careers in college and coming out of college. One of the key lessons: put yourself out there, meet new people, reach out to people who you...
Apr 08, 2021•45 min
#SheLeads in #SPACE! Shelli is the Chief Operating Officer at Space Foundation and has an amazing journey that began in the US Air Force right out of high school to eventually enter into the space industry - a path that she never anticipated entering. Shelli shares so many incredible lessons for anyone navigating their career - especially the importance of finding not only your mentor, but also your coach and your champions - the ones who help you rise to the next level in your career. 📹 interv...
Apr 05, 2021•29 min
As an immigrant to the UK from China, Meg talks about her life growing up and how the person she is today is heavily influenced by her parents and the hard work they did throughout their lives. The lessons she has learned from her parents and from her career translated to her passion to start ADAY - an incredible, versatile and environmentally conscious clothing brand! Meg shares so many golden nuggets that anyone can apply into their professional and personal lives. Enjoy! 📹 interview availabl...
Apr 01, 2021•33 min
Komal’s career path seems to be contingent on one thing: follow your passions. From pursuing engineering to recognizing her love for the operational/business side, she worked in all different companies, industries and sizes. From GE Aviation, to Bain & Company, to then being an early employee at Lyft, Komal follows the signs and says “YES!” She reflects on her career path and how she was often the only female in the room. Implicit bias in the workplace is inevitable. It’s there. So how do we...
Mar 29, 2021•29 min
Christina brings her experience as a former Division 1 Women's Soccer player at Harvard University into her passion for addressing mental health for student-athletes. Her ups and downs going through injuries opened her eyes into the huge gap amongst how physical injuries are treated vs mental ones. Hear about the incredible lessons she's learned throughout her career - from her professional career going to Deloitte and Stanford Graduate School of Business to now founding MyHuddle! 📹 interview a...
Mar 25, 2021•35 min
SEASON 2 IS HERE! Excited to kick off Season 2 with the absolute soccer legend Brandi Chastain! Brandi played for the U.S Women's National team from 1988-2004 and scored the iconic World Cup winning penalty against China in the 1999 Women's World Cup to secure the victory for the U.S. While she chats about this legendary moment in her career, she also reflects on the lessons she has learned throughout her athletic career that she now brings with her to CityCheers. 📹 interview available on the #...
Mar 22, 2021•35 min
