#16: Ashish Gurung – Head of Product
Ashish is the Head of Product at Visualping, a website change monitoring service for businesses and also people.
Ashish shares how he got into Product from consulting and Project Management, and educates me on job title and roles in the Product Management world. We also talk about the art of influencing and building trust with stakeholders and leadership, and what framework Ashish used to get buy-in to work on a project that helped him get on the path of product management. Then, he shares the biggest challenge of context-switching between strategic and tactical mindsets. And from the point of view of person hiring designers, what are the key answers he is looking for when reviewing candidates. And at the end, Ashish shares some insights about the Design team at his current company Visualping.
Ashish shares how he got into Product from consulting and Project Management, and educates me on job title and roles in the Product Management world. We also talk about the art of influencing and building trust with stakeholders and leadership, and what framework Ashish used to get buy-in to work on a project that helped him get on the path of product management. Then, he shares the biggest challenge of context-switching between strategic and tactical mindsets. And from the point of view of person hiring designers, what are the key answers he is looking for when reviewing candidates. And at the end, Ashish shares some insights about the Design team at his current company Visualping.
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Ashish GurungHost
Kirill Vechtomov
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