Career Mission & Future State

Mission:

Deliver products that customers truly love & value, by building products and high functioning Product teams.

Future State:

I want to work in a high trust environment where I feel safe to be myself and do my best work. I want to work around people who value my work and believe I’m the very best person for the job I’m in. This makes me feel like a strong contributor to a winning team.

I want to be recognized as a product leader who can step onto any management team and immediately add value. This means I need to have excellent product and design sense, the ability to ramp quickly and build a supportive team around the product we are building. Additionally I need to be excellent at big stage & boardroom communications and cross-company leadership.

I want the opportunity to build world class products and lead a high performance team. Building products from 0-1, iterating on them while building a supportive team is my biggest strength and it gives me pride and satisfaction to be able to deliver on this strength. Seeing products and teams grow together while helping team members develop their careers brings me great joy. I want to be recognized by people on my team as the best manager they’ve ever had and to know that I’ve made a positive impact on people’s careers and lives.

I want to contribute to a growing company with a strong chance to win. It’s a virtuous cycle working at a place that is experiencing success. It’s exciting, fun, and rewarding to see a company grow and see careers grow along with it.

I want an opportunity to build world class products. I seek an environment that is humble enough to be customer first, strategic enough to invest in good PM and Design, and skilled enough to develop and follow product development best practices. Working on world class products, with a world class team and product development process, makes me feel proud and accomplished.

I want to have the freedom to live a balanced life. To me, a balanced life is freedom to develop and maintain personal relationships, stay in peak physical condition and live calmly with little stress and anxiety. This makes me feel calm, relaxed and in control.

I want to build up enough professional credibility as a Product Leader in the software market to be able to pick the best opportunities and have enough financial cushion to be able to rest between roles, recharge and enjoy my family and friends.

As for the specific role I play, in the near to medium term, I imagine serving as a software Product Leader (Director/Sr. Director). Longer term, I could also imagine being a VP or the CPO of a small software company.