People Driven Products

As a Senior Director of Product Management at Indeed, Nissim Lehyani is working on helping the company adapt products to shifting job seeker needs, especially in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Show Notes

As a Senior Director of Product Management at job site Indeed, Nissim Lehyani is helping the company adapt to shifting job seeker needs for about 250 million people who visit the platform every month.  

For Nissim, product management is about reducing friction and enabling a better path that gets people to a desired outcome. 

Product managers need to weigh decisions based on delivering the maximum amount of value to the largest group of people as quickly as possible, he says on this episode of People Driven Products. Those variables include: the amount of value delivered, the number of people who will benefit, and the time it will take to ship. 

In the interview, Nissim describes how he thinks about adding platform improvements at Indeed, like the addition of a virtual interview feature to help with job search during social distancing. 
He discusses what it takes to get good user feedback (he’s a fan of open-ended questions) and why you have to talk to users directly and not just make assumptions based on behavior patterns. 

What is People Driven Products?

As a PM, your job is to make products and features your users love. But we all know that’s easier said than done.

That’s why we made People Driven Products. You’ll learn how to make products people love and get insights from the PM leaders behind some of the fastest growing and most successful tech companies in the world.

The show is hosted by Ryan Glasgow, who has over a decade of experience managing products at companies like Weebly and Vurb (acquired by Snapchat) and is now the Founder and CEO of Sprig (formerly UserLeap).

In each episode, he’ll be talking with PM leaders at companies that are masters of gaining customer insights, and making customer-centric products.

You’ll learn from some of the best PMs in the world and get practical advice on how to create a customer-centric product team, build a customer-focused culture (and get your company on board), get user feedback quickly, make decisions from those insights, craft a compelling story from the data you gather, help your company make the right product decisions, and most importantly, make products people love.

We can’t wait to share these insights with you, and truly hope that each one helps you and your company, create people-driven products.

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