Elevate Your Product Career: Steps Towards Growth
Check out our career-boosting and all-inspiring event with Yelp. 📈 Ready to elevate your career in product management or design… but not sure how? This is your official invitation to watch our private networking event with Yelp’s product leaders all about HOW YOU can grow your career! During this session, you’ll: Gain…
About this event
Check out our career-boosting and all-inspiring event with Yelp.
📈 Ready to elevate your career in product management or design… but not sure how? This is your official invitation to watch our private networking event with Yelp’s product leaders all about HOW YOU can grow your career!
During this session, you’ll:
- Gain tangible tips + tricks for elevating your career in product.
- Meet Yelp’s product leaders.
- Hear firsthand how Yelp’s leaders built their dream careers.
Agenda:
- 12:00 PM ET - PowerToFly Kickoff
- 12:05 PM ET - Welcome & Keynote Address from Elise Pi, Group Product Manager, Ads
- 12:15 PM ET - Panel Discussion & Audience Q+A featuring
- Elise Pi, Group Product Manager, Ads
- Clara MacDonell, Product Design Manager, Content
- Nahla Salem, Senior Product Manager, Applied Machine Learning
- 12:55 PM ET - Closing Remarks from PowerToFly
- 1:00 PM ET - Breakout Sessions
- 1:30 PM ET - Event Concludes
About Yelp: Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment or purchase. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.
About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run platform that works with companies to identify skilled professionals for networking and recruiting opportunities. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,000+ events across the world with brands like Facebook, Spotify, Microsoft, and Deloitte, resulting in countless hires.
About PowerToFly’s Events: All RSVP’d attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require assistance to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.
→ PowerToFly cannot admit outside recruiters to this event. Please email hi@powertofly.com if you have any questions about this policy.
Agenda
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Where you could fit in
The team is actively hiring. Here are a few open roles this event is built around.
Meet the speakers
Elise Pi
Group Product Manager, Ads
Elise works with a superstar team to build Yelp's ad delivery platform and full-page auction to optimally supply and compose sponsored content on all surfaces. Her team builds features and drives algorithm improvements to deliver higher advertiser ROI and increase advertiser retention, +$X.M in ARR. As Elise says, "In other words: I help figure out where ads go."
Elise has been with the Yelp team for four years now. Prior career stops include IBM and CAP.
Clara MacDonell
Product Design Manager, Content
Clara is a product design manager for the Consumer Content team at Yelp. She first joined Yelp as a Product designer and has since shifted into management. Currently, Clara leads a team of 3 designers who focus on the user experience of contributing content to the Yelp platform — this includes everything from reviews to photos to check-ins and everything in between. Clara is passionate about running design thinking workshops and building design culture within the company. She has helped create the framework for running design thinking workshops at Yelp and also currently runs the product design blog team. Prior to Yelp, Clara worked at IBM as a UX/Visual designer where she focused on building collaboration software. Outside of work, she spends her Saturdays volunteering with Minds Matter SF helping to mentor high school students. Clara also spends her free time learning new skills, making gifs, and getting out in nature as much as she possibly can.
Nahla Salem
Senior Product Manager, Applied Machine Learning
Nahla Salem specializes in product managing B2B Machine Learning products. She leads a team in Yelp using ML to help acquire, engage, and retain Yelp's Local Biz owners. Before Yelp, Nahla built end-to-end ML products in multiple growth-stage Toronto start-ups where she also built ML and Product teams. Customers she worked with include Fortune-50 Manufacturing conglomerate, United Technologies, and the world’s largest health and beauty Retail group A.S. Watson. Her background includes Software Development and Consulting. She has a Masters of Business Analytics and an EMBA.
Yelp
Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment or purchase. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.
Who We Are
We’re passionate about connecting people with great local businesses. At Yelp, we’re bringing together world-class talent from different experiences, disciplines, and areas of study to produce a world-class product. We provide just the place for fostering diverse communities that make a large impact.
We are one dynamic company with many unique teams. Across our various departments, whether sales, engineering, or marketing, our employees comprise an eager community working in service of our mission and company goals.
Yelp employees live, work and play in five-star cities throughout the United States and Europe.
Our Belief in Diversity
At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and that’s just a few. We’re committed to increasing diversity and transparency both here at Yelp and in Silicon Valley.
Our Belief in Inclusiveness
At Yelp, inclusiveness is just as important as diversity. We cultivate a sense of belonging through company supported employee resource and affinity groups: Awesome Women in Engineering, :, DiverseBurst, Health & Wellness, OUTburst, VetConnect, Women at Yelp, Yelp Parents, YelpCares and many more!
Our Values
Our values are what drive us forward. They provide the framework for making decisions like who we hire, who we promote, and how we get things done. If it’s unauthentic and boring you can bet it’s not happening at Yelp.
- Be Unboring
- Be Tenacious
- Play Well With Others
- Be Authentic
- Protect Your Source
Live your best life with five-star benefits
We know that keeping you healthy and wise translates to an overall better work experience. Whether it's world-class health benefits, support for your family, or a wellness reimbursement, we believe happy employees are successful employees.
- Health benefits: Our employees are offered various coverage options for medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Employee stock purchase plan: Become a Yelp shareholder by purchasing stock at a discount.
- Paid time off programs: Take time to rest, recharge, and recover with paid wellness time, vacation, holidays, and one floating holiday per year.
- Mental health support and services via Talkspace: Get easy access to mental health support and services via Talkspace, an online therapy and psychiatry service.
- Adoption, daycare, and baby bonding leave: Start or grow your family with confidence. From adoption assistance to backup daycare and paid time off for new parents, you’ll have support for your family.
- Transgender benefits: Live life authentically with a comprehensive list of benefits for transgender and non-binary individuals.
- Work from home reimbursement: Make your work from home experience more comfortable and productive with a monthly reimbursement.
- Wellness reimbursement: Whether it’s fitness clothes, a massage, or a gym membership, get reimbursed every month to keep up your self-care habits.
- Corporate discounts: Save some cash with corporate perks and discounts at local and national stores, cafes, fitness centers, and more.
Ready to start living your five-star career at Yelp? Apply today!
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