Past event

Life and Career in Product Management

Ngoc To, Katy Mason
August 6, 2021 6:00 – 7:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
Life and Career in Product Management

About this session

Ngoc will share her experience as a PM who has worked at startups all the way to big corporations, building B2C products. She inspires people with no technical background, as well as, first-gen WOC to break into product management.

You will receive an understanding of all things as a PM, the main responsibilities, expectations and stakeholders PM works with on a day-to-day basis, key challenges.

By the end of this chat you will learn:

  • Why PM is a rewarding job and why tech companies need them
  • A jumpstart: How to get into PM without a technical background
  • Key challenges PM has to face: workload, stakeholder management
  • Responsibilities of PM in general - the difference of being a PM at a startup vs a big corp

Register now to bring your voice and perspective to co-create this LIVE Chat & Learn with Ngoc To, linkedin.com/in/ngocto | personal passion in food content: instagram.com/bonne.vivante.21

Moderated by Katy Mason, elevating WOC and first-gen voices, instagram.com/modernchi and modernchi.org

Meet the speakers

Ngoc To

Ngoc To

Senior Product Manager at Twitch

Ngoc is an experienced product manager with passion for products that delight users with innovative technology and intuitive user experience. Ngoc is currently a Sr PM at Twitch working on improving the ads experience for Twitch viewers. Prior to Twitch, she was at Adobe working on machine learning initiatives for video editing apps to automate and simplify workflows of video content creation. Ngoc holds a MBA from UCLA Anderson. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngocto In her free time, she likes exploring new restaurants IG: @bonnevivante21, traveling and learning about new cultures, doing creative activities, from photography to handcrafts (Macrame, knitting…), and practicing yoga/pilates.

Katy Mason

Katy Mason

Conversation Facilitator & Qualitative Interviewer, modernchi

I moderate in participatory forums for maximum audience-speaker connection. In all of this, I take a closer look at definitions of success, connection, and collaboration for individuals, organizations and for our future. My work celebrates kindness, encouragement and collaboration. My childhood in Hong Kong shaped my love and appreciation for cultures and perspectives. This adds value as a Qualitative Researcher, where I dig into stories to find patterns, themes and threads. This superpower serves vibrant community with individuals craving for iterative conversational spaces. My constant effort to learn from individual perspectives and belief systems regenerates my connection to humanity. Conversation Facilitator ✧ Mastermind Guide ✧ UXR Qual Researcher: 5+ years qualitative human-centered researcher experienced in building usability interviews, scenarios, and scripts. As a practitioner of empathic customer motivation discovery, I transform thought process and behavior into actionable insights and roadmaps to inform product dev and stakeholders on ‘what’ we need to build for the next version. You can find me here: Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-mason/ and Instagram @modernchi

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