Product Stacks
By Department of Product
From productivity tools, frameworks, tech stacks to software development management tools, we'll dig deep to get an understanding of how top companies are running product and how you can get inspiration for your own product stack.
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Product StacksJan 26, 2023
Justin Blumenthal - Product Manager at Coinbase
Justin Blumenthal is product manager at Coinbase where he leads P2P crypto payments and the Coinbase Card. During his time at Coinbase, Justin launched new features including multichain send and receive. Prior to Coinbase, Justin was Lead PM at Square, leading the development efforts for Square Reader for Contactless and Chip and the Square Reader for Magstripe.
Justin’s product stack includes:
- Problem / Proposed Solution (PPS) template
- RAPID (Recommend / Agree / Perform / Input / Decide) template
- User feedback tools including usertesting.com
If you’d like to stay up to date with Justin, you can follow him on Twitter.
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Vishal Kapoor - Director of Product at Shipt
Vishal Kapoor is the Director of Product at Shipt where he leads two mission critical product groups: Order Bundling, and Shopper Earnings, which together manage billions of dollars of P&L annually.
Prior to Shipt, Vishal was lead product manager at Lyft and spent 7 years in product at games maker Zynga. Vishal also has experience as a software engineer at Microsoft and Amazon.
Vishal’s leadership Product Stack includes:
- 4 factor framework: Strategic Planning, Accountability, Communication, Collaboration
- OKRs for achieving and tracking outcomes
- Experimentation
If you’d like to stay up to date with Vishal, you can follow him on LinkedIn.
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Vik Bharadwaj at Wayfair
Vik Bharadwaj is a Senior Product Manager for Wayfair Mobile apps leading engagement and retention initiatives along with optimizing for conversion. Prior to joining Wayfair, Vik was a senior product manager at Peapod Digital Labs, an Ahold Delhaize USA Company.
Vik’s product stack includes:
- Product review document
- Product review deck
- Software release notes
If you’d like to stay up to date with Vik, you can follow him on LinkedIn.
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Mohana Cherukuri at EA Games
Mohana Cherukuri is a product manager at EA games working in the developer platform team, responsible for building tools that can be used inside EA games.
Prior to EA Games, Mohana worked at Booking.com and Amazon, and has a background in software engineering.
Mohana’s product stack includes:
- Product discovery document
- Google Docs, Tableau, Figma, Miro
- North star metrics
If you’d like to stay up to date with Mohana, you can follow him on LinkedIn.
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Aishwarya Murali at Amazon
Aishwarya Murali is principal product manager at Amazon where she builds products to support the ecommerce seller experience. Prior to Amazon, Aishwarya worked as a Technical Product Manager at Expedia and spent time in management roles in Expedia and Dell.
Aishwarya holds an MBA from Purdue's Krannert School of Management with experience in Supply Chain Management , Logistics and Operations. Aishwarya also has a degree in software engineering.
Aishwarya’s product stack includes:
- Product insights board
- Vision document
- Experiment document
If you’d like to stay up to date with Aishwarya, you can follow her on LinkedIn.
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Camilla Fisco at Uber
Camilla Fisco is a product manager at Uber where she focuses on building Adtech marketing platform solutions that reach millions of users. Prior to working in product, Camilla spent time in marketing and working in the fragrance industry.
Camilla’s product stack includes:
- OKR tracking and PRDs with Coda
- Smartsheets for roadmaps and data visualisation
- Agenda template for one to ones
Other essential tools mentioned include:
- A pen and paper!
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Diego Rivas at Google
Diego Rivas is a Product Manager at Google working in the augmented reality (AR) team.
In his role as a PM, Diego works with product teams across software and hardware and was previously part of the engineering team that launched the Pixel 3 and Pixel 4. Prior to joining Google, Diego was a product design engineer at Apple where he was involved in developing the design architecture of the iPad.
Diego’s Product Stack includes:
- The Why - PRDs, one pagers and strategy docs with Docs and Slides
- The What - OKRs using Slides
- The How - bug tracking / project management software using Sheets
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Suji Kim at LinkedIn
Suji Kim is a senior product manager at LinkedIn focused on member acquisition efforts in the International Growth team. Prior to working at LinkedIn, Suji was senior product manager at Amazon where she helped create Amazon’s worldwide delivery experience.
Suji’s product stack includes:
- Outlook and Google Workspace for productivity and documentation
- Zoom, Slack and teams for communication
- Figma and Figjam for design and collaboration
- Smartsheets for project management
Suji’s tips for using Slack include:
- Setting reminders using Slackbot
- Open conversations in split view
- Setting keywords alerts
- Remind yourself about messages to follow up on later
- Scheduling messages to send later
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Majed Chaaban at Venmo
Majed Chaaban is a Senior Product Manager at Venmo where he’s focused on the Venmo Debit Card - a product that allows millions of users to spend Venmo balance funds everywhere Mastercard is accepted in the U.S. and in U.S. territories. Prior to Venmo, Majed was Senior PM at PayPal.
Majed’s product stack includes:
- Data analysis with Amplitude
- Process management and productivity (including personal productivity!) with Jira
- Documentation writing and collaboration with Atlassian’s Confluence
Other products mentioned include:
- Smartsheets for roadmaps and project management
- Slack for communications
- Word and Sharepoint for documentation
- Figma and Figjam for designs and whiteboarding
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Christin Karwatzki at Shopify
Christin Karwatzki is a Senior Product Manager at Shopify where she helps millions of merchants offer competitive and reliable delivery experiences. Prior to Shopify, Christin spent 4 years at Amazon in both product and program management. Christin’s product stack includes:
Frameworks and tools mentioned include:
- Assumption slams for testing assumptions and de-risking strategy
- The importance of product principles to guide decision making
- The PR FAQ document (similar to Amazon’s working backwards)
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