Episode description

As a Senior Director of Product Management at job site Indeed, Nissim Lehyani is helping the company adapt to shifting job seeker needs for about 250 million people who visit the platform every month.  

For Nissim, product management is about reducing friction and enabling a better path that gets people to a desired outcome. 

Product managers need to weigh decisions based on delivering the maximum amount of value to the largest group of people as quickly as possible, he says on this episode of People Driven Products. Those variables include: the amount of value delivered, the number of people who will benefit, and the time it will take to ship. 

In the interview, Nissim describes how he thinks about adding platform improvements at Indeed, like the addition of a virtual interview feature to help with job search during social distancing. 

He discusses what it takes to get good user feedback (he’s a fan of open-ended questions) and why you have to talk to users directly and not just make assumptions based on behavior patterns.