Making the Leap from Senior Product Manager to Director
Hear from a panel of Atlanta product management leaders about the paths they took from individual contributor to leadership.
This week, we're focused on your career. Making the journey from individual contributor to product management leadership can seem daunting, or at best mysterious.
Our panel will talk about their backgrounds and the choices they made that led them to leadership roles, what they learned along the way and what they would do differently if they were starting again.
Featuring:
Robert Elliott, Globant
Kellie Jones, Ultimate Kronos Group
Brian Huss, Cox Automotive
Jahanzeb Jabbar, The Home Depot
Moderated by Lisa Black, Oracle
Lisa Black, Oracle
Lisa is an experienced product manager who operates with a customer-centered and data-driven approach. She has led products at Kronos, The Home Depot, Deloitte Digital, and is excited to be back for her second tour at Oracle as part of their Cloud Infrastructure product team. In her prior years with the company, Lisa was responsible for multiple products in the Oracle CX Applications portfolio.
Lisa has scaled products & processes in the Human Capital Management, Supply Chain, and Customer Experience (Marketing Intelligence) spaces. She has deep experience in enterprise analytics, and early in her career was responsible for modeling & visualizing data with a technical skill set.
Outside of work, Lisa is an avid photographer, enjoys traveling to new places, and is fluent in English and French. She hails from Montreal, has lived in two international capital cities plus two US state capitals. Lisa now calls Atlanta home, where she volunteers and cheers for Georgia Tech as a local alumna.
Jahanzeb Jabbar, The Home Depot
Jahanzeb is an award-winning product leader with a tremendously diverse set of industry experiences. Known for building and developing high performing teams, to innovate and break through in otherwise mature and crowded spaces in retail and financial services.
Whether it is front end experiences such as mobile and digital customer products at Amex and Home Depot or backend products such as credit card pricing and insurance fulfillment at Amex, he’s been able to create a product vision, strategy, and execute.
Kellie Jones, Ultimate Kronos Group
Kellie is currently Senior Director, Product for UKG, responsible for leading the Payroll and Benefits areas of the award winning HCM solution, UltiPro. She's been in technology product management for over 20 years and is passionate about simplifying the complex. In her spare time, she likes to #lollygag through the city of Atlanta looking for street art and tiny doors.
Robert Elliott, Globant
Robert Elliott is currently the Sr Director, Product Strategy & Engagement at Globant. Previously, Robert held Strategic Product Management roles at The Home Depot and WarnerMedia. He has 16 years experience as a leader and strategist in the technology industry. Robert received his Bachelor of Business Administration (MIS) from Auburn University and his Master’s in Business Administration
from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business.
Brian Huss, Cox Automotive
Brian Huss is Senior Director of Product at Cox Automotive, where he leads a team of 25 product managers working on Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, focusing on making the car shopping, purchasing, and owning process better, easier, and more modern. Brian's been building and leading teams creating transformational product experiences at scale for two decades at Turner, CBS Sports, MTV, Comedy Central, and AOL. He also is a co-organizer of Product404, a local product leadership community, where he focuses on building a product mentoring program to match up seasoned product professionals with those transitioning into product or looking to take the next step in their careers. Brian's also a distance runner, baseball fan, and ex-improv comedian.
