Career Conversations: Dan Balcauski, Founder of Product Tranquility

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Join General Assembly and The Product League for a career conversation with Dan Balcauski, Founder and Principal Consultant at Product Tranquility

In this conversation, we will cover:

• How to carve your own career path in product management
• Why it's critical to be customer-focused
• How to use Jobs To Be Done to improve your products and services
• What are the challenges of your own product consulting business
• Why traveling, volunteering, new experiences, and literally getting out of the office makes you a better PM

The goal of this event is to have a candid career conversation and hear actionable and relatable advice, resources, and insights that you can apply to your own career.

Speaker Bio:
Over the last 15 years, Dan has managed multiple products throughout the product life-cycle from new concept incubation, product launch, product maintenance, platform transitions, and end of life. Dan has worked in both consumer and B2B companies on both hardware and software. He has done product work for all sizes of companies from startups to publicly traded multi-national enterprises.

Prior to founding Product Tranquility, Dan completed a solo round-the-world expedition to 21 countries, a lifelong dream that involved several life-changing volunteering experiences and a new collection of friends and good stories. Prior to that, he was Head of Product at LawnStarter, a two-sided marketplace bringing the best lawn care professionals to customers across the US. He joined LawnStarter after SolarWinds’ $4B acquisition by Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo. At SolarWinds, he was a Principal Product Strategist where he helped form and execute product growth strategies across new and existing products, both on-premises and SaaS-based.