Navigating Your Next Career Leap in Product

Hey Product Enthusiasts!

Finding a job in product looks different these days - which is why we are welcoming our featured speaker, Ash Goodwin, of My Product Path to talk all things hiring trends, how to make the most of your job search, and guiding you through making the best next step in your career.

Beyond that, we are thrilled to have a panel of both in-house and agency recruiters who will shed light on their experiences in hiring product people for our members to get the most of their advice.

Free pizza and drinks as usual! 🍻

Agenda
5:30 - 6:15pm - Welcome Drinks + Food, Networking Time
6:15 - 6:45pm - Ash Goodwin: Roadmap to Job Search Success: Navigate with Precision, Land with Confidence!
6:45 - 7:15pm - Panel with the incredible Ash, Beth, and Katie
7:15 - 8:00pm - Close + Networking

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Who you'll learn from:

Ash Goodwin, My Product Path [Speaker/Panelist]

Ash is the Founder of My Product Path, My AI Path and My Mentor Path.

Ash has been scaling Product organisations for over 8 years, building teams globally which have been responsible for generating billions in revenue for the likes of CWT, Experian, Collinson Group, WorldPay, Dojo, Samsung, Navro to name a few.

Ash originally Co-Founded My Product Path with a Chief Product Officer and we were the first Product recruitment business of its kind! This led to creating our Free Opensource mentoring platform with Jason Knight & Shaun Smith-Taylor called My Mentor Path which has over 500 Product Leaders on giving valuable advice to Product Professionals daily! Ash's latest business is scaling start-up & scale-up AI Product & Engineering organisations!

About the talk:
Roadmap to Job Search Success: Navigate with Precision, Land with Confidence!
A Product job search work shop to help you shape your CV & approach to the market, uncover interview secrets and proven strategies for you to approach the job market in 2024!

Bethany McKenzie, Harvey Nash [Panelist]

Bethany is a Principal Consultant at Nash Squared, a Global Solutions Provider, and works in their Harvey Nash Edinburgh office looking after clients across the Central Belt of Scotland. The range of her clientele includes various industries such as FinTech, Tech SME’s, Financial Services and Public Sector.
Around half of the roles Bethany looks after sits within product, but she also looks after change management and sales, whilst her colleagues look after the more technical roles including software engineering and automation.
Bethany speaks to both hiring managers and candidates daily and consults both parties throughout the hiring process. With 8 years’ experience in her field, Bethany gives great insight into the trickier conversations such as salary negotiation and managing being in for multiple roles at once.

Katie Shaikh, FreeAgent [Panelist]

Katie joined FreeAgent in 2016 to establish the Talent Team and fulfil the company’s ambitious hiring plans. The Talent Team now also deliver E,D&I, coaching, early careers and outreach activities. Katie's previous experience includes publishing and agency recruitment while latterly completing an MSc in Human Resources before moving in-house.
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Thank you to our sponsor, Zonal:

Zonal is a British, family-owned technology provider offering a wide range of tried and tested solutions to more than 16,000 pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels across the UK. For more than 40 years, their expertise in tech innovation has been the driving force in helping hospitality operators improve the experience for their guests and drive better efficiencies and profits for their business, now and in the future.
From EPoS to loyalty, CRM to table bookings, stock control, recipe management and BI reporting giving business critical insights – their tech includes everything an operator needs to run their hospitality business.
Their customer obsession shapes their product roadmap, and they bring passion for customers and dedication towards innovation to the everyday. They invest heavily in research and development, and continually add to their 200 best-in-class integrated partner companies, because they believe in providing customers with choice to create the optimum tech toolkit that best suits their needs.