The Product Shop: Recent Episodes
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We're joined by Matt Andaloro, Product Manager at Loblaws. We reflect on his interest in improv and how he's applied improv techniques within his own team. He shares how COVID accelerated the adoption of online grocery services and revealed a new audience that changed his product roadmap. Finally, Matt shares how he combines a mix of quantitative and qualitative data to inform his product decisions.
We're joined by Amina Saigol, Senior Product Strategist at Connected. We reflect on her beginnings when she first stepped into the tech and product world, how Amina has used her past experiences to help guide Connected with clients through the product discovery phase, and learning what you can do to manage expectations with stakeholders when planning and building new product features.
For our third episode of the Product Shop, we're joined by Zhi, Senior Director of Product at Top Hat. We reflect on her roots in Singapore, how she determines what makes a great Product Manager some things Product Managers should expect in the role and the growing pains of a startup in the growth phase. She dives into how the team at Top Hat adapted their core product offering during COVID, which resulted in a very interesting discovery that may set a new way of learning post-COVID.
We're joined by Mat Marr, Senior Merchant Relations Manager at Shopify, as we reflect on his perspective on how the Shop Pay app has accelerated consumer e-commerce checkout, how the relationship he's built with merchants has helped define the apps product roadmap, and why Shopify's ecosystem of products has helped pave a new e-commerce experience.
We chat with Cobi Druxerman, one of the Co-Founder's & Head of Product at Taplytics as he shares the story of Taplytics' journey through YCombinator and growing a tech company in Toronto.