S2E6 - Aleks Bass, CPO Typeform - First 30-60-90 Days, Conflict, Feedback

Aleks Bass is Chief Product Officer of Typeform where she leads product strategy, development and execution. Typeform helps brands with thoughtfully-designed tools that turn digital interactions into lasting personal connections, with no-code forms, quizzes, surveys, and asynchronous videos.

Prior to Typeform, Aleks led products at Surveymonkey, Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), Workfront (acquired by Adobe).

Aleks' passion lies at the intersection of technology, insights, and strategy, and applying these disciplines to improve products, customer experiences, and marketing outcomes. As a leader her goal is to foster a culture of collaboration and accountability, instill a growth mindset, advocate for experimentation, and fully invest and respect the craft of creation.

Key Highlights:

In this episode, Aleks talks about:

• The evolution of market research
• How successful product managers overlap across product, engineering, design for maximum impact
• What product managers should learn about how their products serve customers
• Addressing skepticism some executives have about conducting market surveys
• Framework for the first 30-60-90 days in a new company in a new role
• Building clarity about how to address conflict
• How to give effective feedback
• and a lot more...

Connect with Aleks Bass:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksbass/

Connect with Rahul Abhyankar:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulabhyankar

Referenced in this episode:

- Book: Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres