ProductTank March 2026

Join us for the March edition of ProductTank PDX!

We’re excited to welcome two incredible speakers: Betsie Hoyt (Fractional Product Management VP) and Jed Gresham (Head of Product @ Moment). As always, we’ll also have plenty of time to meet other product folks over drinks and tasty snacks. Sponsored by Oregon Venture Fund.

📅 Wednesday, March 4, 2026
🕕 6:00 – 8:00pm
📍 Kiln

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### Building Space for Real Team Collaboration

Can you manage a room with engineering, design, sales, or clients without anyone resorting to a fake fire drill to escape? How can you foster genuine collaboration when everyone holds firmly to their own beliefs, yet remains silent? Or worse, only a select few are actively participating in discussions? This is the most frequently asked topic by executives, clients, and product managers seeking to enhance their skills. Let’s dive into the identification of common communication barriers and explore effective strategies to build open collaboration through road-tested techniques.

About Betsie: Hoyt is the kind of product leader who doesn't just manage products; she transforms entire organizations and creates real business impact. With over 20 years in the game, Betsie has built her reputation by turning bold product visions into reality across some seriously diverse industries, from construction tech to fintech to online dating.

She’s built and scaled high-performing product teams across North America and Europe, coaching PMs to grow as leaders, drive data-driven results, scale product roadmaps, collaborate, and tell compelling stories about the client journey.

These days, Betsie is helping companies nail their 0-to-1 product strategies and coaching product leaders to level up their game. She's proof that great product management is equal parts vision, execution, and genuine care for the people you're building for.

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### Career PMF: Product Managing Your Own Path

Jed shares a system he’s evolved over years of leading and mentoring product managers to help them navigate their careers with the same rigor they bring to their products. He’ll walk through how to define a “career PRD,” build a backlog of experiences, use networking and interviews as continuous discovery, and set lightweight career milestones. You’ll see the real templates Jed uses with PMs today and leave with a simple, repeatable way to roadmap and manage your own product management career over time.

About Jed: Gresham is a product leader who has spent more than 15 years building and growing SaaS and infrastructure products at companies like Moment, Oso, Gremlin, and Symantec. He has led product and pre‑PMF teams across DevOps, reliability, and security, and loves helping product managers apply product thinking to their own careers.

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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!