Name: ProductTank October 2025: Frameworks & Problems
Start: 2025-10-29T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-29T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Kiln

Join us for the October edition of ProductTank PDX!

We’re excited to welcome two incredible speakers, [Sarah Crispin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-crispin-013165a/) (Product Management, Strategy & Operations Consultant) and [Justin Wolske](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinawolske/) (Chief Product Officer @ Yellowbrick), for an evening exploring the problem with problems, and how to leverage frameworks to move fast. As always, we’ll also have plenty of time to meet other product folks over drinks and tasty snacks.

📅 Wednesday, October 29, 2025
🕕 6:00 – 8:00pm
📍 Kiln

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### Lighting the Frameworks on Fire

We learn a lot about best practices and frameworks, but it’s rare that product managers find themselves with the space and time to use them as intended. This is a story about learning the rules of the game you’re actually playing so that you can adjust your approach and cobble tools together to move fast, play hard, and maybe even score. Spoiler: success in this endeavor requires an A+ team and, if we’re being honest, luck.

About Sarah: Sarah found her way to product management after teaching middle school, coaching collegiate track & field, and working as a management consultant. In her most recent full-time role, Sarah served as a Global Director of Product at ASICS, where she worked to pivot a legacy fitness app. Originally from Maine, Sarah moved to Portland after almost 20 years in Boston. She loves dogs, running in the woods, learning about big ideas, and sports documentaries (recommendations welcome).

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### The Problem with Problems: Rethinking Urgency

A discussion centered around reframing problems as jobs to be done, and how that helps you build better personas and psychographics. The talk is catered first toward early-stage founders with product responsibilities (others can find something useful, too).

About Justin: Film producer by trade, he has worked in EdTech since 1999. Currently, he's the Chief Product Officer @ Yellowbrick and Principal @ Airy Disc Learning. His areas of focus are around digital learning products (with a specialization in using narrative-based pedagogies to drive executive-function learning), media production, lean/agile product development, and early/mid-stage entrepreneurship strategy.

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🎉 Don’t miss it!

Come connect with fellow product managers, designers, engineers, and enthusiasts over drinks and snacks. See you there!

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