Organizing product teams can often be the last thing on your mind, but the approach you take often impacts the success of the individuals, the teams, and the company. How do you create focus, adaptability, and resiliency when change is a constant? In this session, Jay Bergesen, fmr Etsy VP & Head of Etsy.com and current Artifact Uprising CPO, discusses iterating through approaches to organizing product teams at companies of varying scale and the patterns that have emerged and sustained over time.
Jay is a product executive with consumer technology and marketplace leadership experience at all levels of scale. He has two decades of experience building internet products. He’s currently the Chief Product Officer at Artifact Uprising, a Denver-based technology and consumer product company that helps people honor the meaningful in their lives through printed photo gifts, books, and more. Jay previously served as SVP of Product at Ibotta, the largest consumer tech company headquartered in Denver; VP of Etsy.com and other senior product management positions during a six year, high-growth period at Etsy; and Head of Product Management at Bloomberg.com. Earlier in his career, Jay served as Staff Interaction Designer at Yahoo and came into product management after holding several design and engineering roles.