Tamar Yehoshua
Tamar Yehoshua is the president of product and technology at Glean. Prior to joining Glean, Tamar was chief product officer at Slack, where she led product, design, and research as the company scaled, including a 10x increase in revenue, its public listing, and an acquisition by Salesforce. She also led product and engineering teams at Google, working on search, identity, and privacy, and at A9.com, an Amazon company. Tamar has served on the board of directors for RetailMeNot, ServiceNow, Snyk, and Yext.
Career (separate track) Skills
When choosing a new role, prioritize the quality of your cross-functional partners to ensure your product vision can be successfully executed and launched.
"Make sure you go somewhere where you have a good engineering partner. Because if you have great ideas of what to build but you can't get them built, then you go nowhere. So that has to be part of your..."
Career acceleration depends on excelling in your current position and developing a deep understanding of human motivations for both building products and leading teams.
"People have a tendency ... Especially product managers are very ambitious and they want to get to the next level and they're always eyeing the next job, but you're not going to get the next job unless..."
Maintain a beginner's mind to avoid the trap of building features based on personal assumptions rather than genuine customer needs.
"Don't assume you know. Marc Benioff would always say, 'Have a beginner's mind. Go in assuming that you know nothing and listen to your customers, listen to the people.' Because I also see this as you'..."
Discovery & Research Skills
Successful product managers balance metric-driven decisions with a customer-centric intuition built by maintaining a beginner's mind.
"One of the things that I caution product managers about is that you don't want to be too overly reliant on metrics and you want to also have an intuition. You want product managers who understand intu..."
Operating Cadence & Communication Skills
PM success depends on establishing a high-trust, aligned partnership with engineering to ensure ideas can be built and to prevent stakeholder confusion.
"And then I think what's really important is that you're aligned. You understand your roles and responsibilities and where you're going to divide and conquer and where you're going to be aligned. You d..."