Progression Podcast

Progression
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Progression Podcast

As tech teams we're great at designing and building products and experiences that people love. But one thing that we still can't do effectively is design our own careers. With the help of regular contributors and special guests, we dig into why that is, tackling questions around managing vs making, missing manager tools, soft and hard skills and training, compensation and navigating a new job that's right for you.

  1. 25/01/2023

    #29 Jackie Bavaro (Asana, Google) on having impact as a Product Manager

    Jackie Bavaro was most recently Head of Product Management for eight years at Asana, the well-loved work management software, where she joined pre-launch as the first PM. During her tenure, she grew the PM team to over twenty amazing people, helped Asana's go from $0 to more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, and launched Asana's associate product manager program. Jackie has since written two fantastic books on PM careers - 'Cracking the PM career' and 'Cracking the PM interview'. In this episode we talk about Jackie's growth as a PM at Asana, defining impact in role, working with founders, navigating feedback and her 'Do, Try, Consider' framework which we've now implemented at Progression. Links Jackie on Twitter Jackie on Amazon Jackie's tweet referencing the framework we talk about in the podcast Jackie's interview on Lenny's pod Do, Try, Consider Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email hello@progression.co and tell us more. Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539 Progression is free for your first team of 10 Sign up at progression.co

    45 min

  2. 29/09/2021

    #28 Steve Bianchi (Beamery, Unilever) on the rise of the people-focused COO and a capability-based future

    This week Jonny chats to Steve Bianchi, CHRO and COO of talent operating system Beamery. A real futurist and systems thinker, Steve gets into the future of the people team, why people leaders make good Chief Operating Officers and imagines a future where we’re hired not based on our university and CV but by our skills and ambition. Links: Steve on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenbianchi Beamery: https://beamery.com/ Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email podcast@progressionapp.com and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539

    46 min
  3. #27 Lucas Coelho (Roam Digital) on building an academy, leadership lessons and how to run a happy team

    07/09/2021

    #27 Lucas Coelho (Roam Digital) on building an academy, leadership lessons and how to run a happy team

    In this episode Jonny chats to Lucas Coelho — VP of design at Roam Digital — about growing as a leader, his thoughts on how to build a bench of good junior folks, being honest and learning from failure and his experience building progression frameworks and using Progression. Lucas is a Progression customer, but we try and steer well clear of that until the very end. Lucas Links: https://lucascoelho.co/ https://twitter.com/coelholucas Lucas's talk at Figma Config: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsSKDh8gBg Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email podcast@progressionapp.com and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: https://progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539

    55 min
  4. #26 Brian Lovin (Github, Spectrum, Design Details) on the rise of the senior IC

    23/06/2021

    #26 Brian Lovin (Github, Spectrum, Design Details) on the rise of the senior IC

    In this episode, Jonny chats with Brian about the rise of the very senior IC (Individual Contributor) - a subject close to our heart at Progression. We also go into the process of creating a startup and Brian's experience building and exiting Spectrum, his mixed feelings about how much we should be optimising for titles and putting yourself out there on the internet. Brian is a designer at Github, co-host of the very popular Design Details podcast and most recently published a collection of interviews with senior designers on staff.design. Brian Links: https://brianlovin.com/ https://twitter.com/brian_lovin https://staff.design/ https://designdetails.fm/ https://nav.al/principal-agent - the article that Brian references that we're now obsessed with Jonny can be found at https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email podcast@progressionapp.com and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: https://progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539

    56 min
  5. #25 Sarah Clatterbuck (Yahoo, LinkedIn, Google) on frameworks for startups vs large orgs and avoiding anti-patterns

    04/06/2021

    #25 Sarah Clatterbuck (Yahoo, LinkedIn, Google) on frameworks for startups vs large orgs and avoiding anti-patterns

    In this episode, Sarah Clatterbuck, Senior Director of Engineering at Google sits down with Neil to discuss a whole range of topics including: What is was like in the LinkedIn engineering team as they grew from 300 to 3000 How Sarah recommends startups and scale-ups think about rolling out progression frameworks for the first time How to think about and reduce unconscious bias and anti-patterns in frameworks Links: Sarah on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahclatterbuck/ Sarah on Twitter https://twitter.com/girodchatterbox Neil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ncameron Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email podcast@progressionapp.com and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: https://progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539 Image credit: Kevin Scott

    43 min
  6. #24: Jessie Hayes (Whereby, Box) on treating people like a product and keeping frameworks light

    12/05/2021

    #24: Jessie Hayes (Whereby, Box) on treating people like a product and keeping frameworks light

    This episode, Jonny chats to Jessie Hayes, VP People and Talent at Whereby, the London video platform.  As one of the first 'People people' on the pod, Jessie goes through her personal career journey to get to Whereby, through large companies (Goldman Sachs, Box) to small, then we dig into how to treat your people function like a product which your employees subscribe to (very novel and clever) and then get Jessie's thoughts on progression frameworks, where they've succeeded and failed and what they're doing about it at Whereby today as they scale to 160+. Jessie's links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicamayhayes/ https://twitter.com/hijessiemay https://www.jmh.fun/ Jonny: https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email podcast@progressionapp.com and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: https://progressionapp.com/careers Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539

    51 min
  7. #23: Gonçalo Silva (CTO, Doist) on building progression frameworks for a distributed team

    25/03/2021

    #23: Gonçalo Silva (CTO, Doist) on building progression frameworks for a distributed team

    We're back after a bit of a break with a new series of Progression Pods - this time we're mixing up the presenter so watch out for some new voices from the team. In this episode, Gonçalo Silva, CTO at Doist (creators of Todoist and Twist) sits down with Neil to discuss the nine month process they went through to create a progression framework for their globally distributed team of 100 people.  They discuss building the framework transparently, iteratively gathering and incorporating team member feedback and how they use their framework to help determine compensation. Links: https://twitter.com/goncalossilva https://doist.com https://todoist.com https://twist.com Neil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ncameron Who else should we be speaking to? Be on the pod! Tell us about someone great! Just email podcast@progressionapp.com and tell us more. Our lovely sponsor: Progression! We're tackling meaty problems around career growth and hiring engineers and designers at the moment. Read more and find our open roles on our careers page: progressionapp.com/careers  Rate us! It really helps if you rate us on iTunes. You can do that right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/progression-podcast/id1435509539

    57 min
  8. #22: Inside Progression Ep2 — Jonny and Neil catch-up

    10/06/2020

    #22: Inside Progression Ep2 — Jonny and Neil catch-up

    It's been a while since Jonny and Neil sat down to talk through Product progress, plans and strategy. This somewhat unplanned ramble-chat covers how we're thinking about high touch vs low touch go-to-market, COVID impact, honing the problem we're solving and for who. Of course, Neil also reviews a biscuit. We have no new guest interview episodes planned (it's been a busy few months) but if you like these team chats please let us know and we can do more of them! Anti-racism statement During this episode we reference a statement on anti-racism and our stance, that we planned to be an intro to the episode but we decided to make it its own episode. The audio and transcript of that is here: https://www.progressionapp.com/posts/anti-racism-statement/ — please do give it a listen, we're learning and would love your feedback. Other links As always, you can give Progression a try at https://progressionapp.com All previous episodes now available on our blog: https://progressionapp.com/blog Jonny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonnyburch Neil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ncameron

    41 min
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About

As tech teams we're great at designing and building products and experiences that people love. But one thing that we still can't do effectively is design our own careers. With the help of regular contributors and special guests, we dig into why that is, tackling questions around managing vs making, missing manager tools, soft and hard skills and training, compensation and navigating a new job that's right for you.

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  • Creator
    Progression
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2023
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Progression
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