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Make a Career Transition to Product Management (SAC Career Week)
by Student Advisory Council (E/W)
Back to SAC Career Week 2023
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Details
Join us for SAC Career Week 2023, a weeklong series of events designed to support Boothies pursuing market-based, experienced-hire career paths in the market. The Booth Product Management Club (BPMC) is collaborating with The Student Advisory Council (SAC) and Career Services to bring you a panel discussion on making a career transition to Product Management. This event will feature Product Management professionals from renowned companies who will share their expertise and insights to help students advance their careers.
The panel discussion will take place on Saturday afternoon at Gleacher Center, with the option to attend in-person or virtually. Lunch will be provided, So please join us for this insightful session!
Goals
- Gain valuable insights to enghance your job search in the Product Management field.
- Learn about the nuances and opportunities from experienced professionals to help you position yourself and skills.
- Meet with professionals and alumni to foster potential future advocates.
- Expand your understanding of various companies as you navigate your time at Booth.
Panelist Biographies:
Balaji Ananthanpillai is a versatile product leader with high business acumen passionate about driving innovation and bringing in a positive change to the world by building products that reduce economic and cognitive friction. Balaji is a former Product Lead with Prime Video & Amazon Studios and is an authentic, results-driven, and inclusive leader who is passionate about building empowered and diverse high-performance teams. He has more than 10 years of product experience in launching 0->1 products, scaling existing products, and is a proven leader known for partnering cross-functionally to align multi-year strategies with VPs and C-Level executives. Balaji holds an MBA from University of Chicago – Booth School of Business and a Master of Science degree from University of Cincinnati.
Ayuko Hill is currently a Product Manager on the AIML team at Apple, focusing on early stage development of Health and Fitness features. She joined the company in December 2021 after completing a summer internship. Before Apple, she spent several years as a Product Manager in the manufacturing industry where she managed industrial measurement products.
Suds Narasimhan is a Product Manager for Google AI focusing on Large Language Models and AI services. Before Google, Suds spent 4 years at Microsoft Azure, shaping their data services portfolio. Suds spent his early career as a product development engineer in healthcare and financial services. Suds holds a Master's in Computer Science and an MBA from Chicago Booth.
Alice Zhao is an entrepreneurial product manager with 6+ years of experience in product, analytics and finance functions in tech. She joined Microsoft in 2022 August leading the implementation of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT into Bing search experience. Prior to Microsoft, Alice is a product manager at Amazon impacting a team of scientists, researchers, and software engineers to build products that delight millions of users around the world. As a product owner, Alice focuses on the intersection of technology, business, and design, and leads innovative greenfield project from zero to one. She also mentors aspiring product managers interested in tech industry and enjoys exploring Chicago outside work and school.
Food Provided
Speakers
Balaji Ananthanpillai
Product Lead
Prime Video & Amazon Studios
Hosted By
Co-hosted with: Booth Product Management Club (E/W)
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