Simon Chen @ Facebook / Executive Assistant to Technical Program Manager

Welcome to Flux's Mobility Spotlight where we share stories of people who have made successful job transitions and the companies with cultures that encouraged them to do so. Our goal is to highlight these transitions and understand what drove them, experience and working-style overlaps that might not be obvious, and to share advice for others considering a similar move.

In this episode we're speaking with Simon Chen who is a Technical Program Manager at Facebook. Out of undergrad Simon started as an Executive Assistant to the CEO and later transitioning to a Business Analyst function at an e-commerce start-up. After taking a Data Science course he made the leap to Facebook as a Product Specialist and then transitioned further into a product-driven function in Technical Program Management.  

In this discussion we cover:

🎤 Advice to college grads on how to find your path

🧐 Identifying opportunity around you

🦄 The benefits of starting your career at a start-up