Jackie Bavaro is a product manager at Asana, a leading startup that builds the modern productivity software for teamwork without email used by companies such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Uber, Foursquare, and Pinterest. She joined as the company's first product manager and she lead the team through their public launch, the launch of their premium product, and the launch of their product for larger teams.
With over eight years of experience in product management, she has also worked as a product manager at Google and as a program manager at Microsoft. At Google, she joined as part of the elite Associate Product Manager (APM) program and worked on Google Search, where notably she launched Place Search - the first product to group web results around objects in the real world. At Microsoft, she worked in the Office group on Windows SharePoint Server where she launched blogs and wikis on the SharePoint platform.
Jackie has interviewed over 100 PM candidates in both phone screens and on-site interviews, reviewed many resumes, and sourced numerous candidates. She has advised many candidates on applying to become product managers and finding the right company, which was part of the inspiration for writing this book.
Jackie graduated from Cornell University with a double major in Computer Science and Economics.
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