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Come join Raya Advisory's LinkedIn Live event, hosted by Yasi Baiani and the panel of Talent Partners, Recruiters, and HR Experts from Pear VC, Orby AI, and Hop. * Are you interested in positioning yourself for AI roles? * Are you looking for your next role? * Are you torn between staying in a large company or joining a small one? * Have you been exhausted navigating this current job market? * Are you in career transition? This panel is for you! Come and join us for a great conversation. Hope to see you there and then.

You may wonder what Raya Advisory offers. 🤩 Below you can see the list of our offerings. ✅ If you have #recruiting needs across #product, #engineering (including AI engineers), #marketing, and #design you should think of Raya and have a conversation with us. ✅ Q4 is around the corner and it's annual planning time for most companies. If you are wondering what your product or AI strategy should be as you prepare for 2025, reach out to us to talk. We are happy to support your team. #recruiting #productconsulting #strategyconsulting #AI #coporatetraining

👇 Thinking about your AI Strategy? 🤔 This is for you... C.A.P.T.U.R.E framework helps you get buy-in for any strategic work including your AI strategy. We had over 500 people signed up and listened to MAHESH YADAV (from Google Gen AI) and me talking about how to shape and present your AI Strategy. Here are the highlights: 1) Use C.A.P.T.U.R.E framework to craft a compelling AI strategy to get buy-in from the executive team and key stakeholders (see more in the images below for what C.A.P.T.U.R.E stands for. 2) Every team needs to spend time and effort to #upskill themselves with AI knowledge. Invest in #upskilling of your team. Bring in experts to educate your team. 3) Understand the technical opportunities and limitations of AI and ensure to address those in your proposal. Propose a "phased path" with a clear timeline, budget, and goals to help your executives understand how your team will go from idea > concept > minimum viable product > and to scaled product. 4) Lay out how you build #responsibleAI offerings and mitigate compliance, privacy, and ethical risks. 5) Testing AI products is different than your typical product. They may need more than your QA. If you build a product for lawyers or doctors, you need those experts to review the model's output. Those types of talent are expensive and they need to be considered as part of your cost and plan. 👉 You can find the link to the full talk in the comments below. ♻ If you find this post helpful, re-share or like it to help others benefit as well. Thanks, Chilann Chan for executing and bringing this awesome event together. #AI #productstrategy #AIstrategy #productmanagement #productdevelopment

⚡ 💡 The "best ideas" are always controversial! ⚡ 🤔 They are not as obvious, and not everyone in the company can see how it will come to life. If something is so obvious and easy, every other competitor and player would have already done it. That's why getting alignment for your most promising product ideas or business strategies is never easy. The bigger the idea, it typically requires more engineering and other types of investments; this makes it even more challenging to get executive buy-in. I've experienced this often in my work as a product executive and leader in companies such as Fitbit, Teladoc, and Cleo as well as in my work with clients at Raya Advisory. Come join me, MAHESH YADAV, and 200+ people who've already signed up (Wow!) to hear how to unlock multi-billion dollar opportunities for your company and how to align executives and teams to implement those strategies. I will talk about key soft skills, business acumen, and technical skills you need to effectively influence others and build alignment. I will share stories about: - How we got executive alignment and support to build Fitbit's Female Health category which was a controversial topic at first since most of male executives couldn't see the big opportunity around cycle tracking and fertility windows -- which ended up being widely adopted and had over 2.4M users in the first month. - How collaboratively with involving all the functions and leaders at Cleo, I solidified a product strategy and north star to expand beyond female health and early-stage family support to become an end-to-end caregiving company -- unlocked $270B market opportunity for the company. - How in our work with Raya clients today we help them assess, present, and implement AI strategies and solutions that are right for their organization. Huge thank you to Maven team and Gagan Biyani for this Influence at Work Series and for including us. Also, a big thank you to Chilann Chan who has supported us behind the scenes to make this a reality. Join LIVE on 8/13, 12:00pm. Link is below in comments. #Productmanager #AI #productstrategy #AIstrategy #GenAI #Influence

The rise of product management over the past two decades tl;dr Hypergrowth for two decades, followed by a pleatue. The role isn't growing like it was for 20 years, but it’s also not shrinking. This seems like a good and healthy thing all around.

🎊 🎉Congratulations to the winners of our Inaugural Women in Power List! 🎊 🎉 We are proud at Raya Advisory to have the opportunity to put a spotlight on these incredible leaders and trailblazers who are truly changing the world for the better. Their stories and achievements are inspiring! 🤩 Please join us in congratulating all the winners and amplifying their stories by “liking or reposting this post.” Congratulations to 👏 👏 👏 Hayden Brown, CEO of Upwork Cara Brennan Allamano, Chief People Officer of Lattice Bonnie Hyun, US Head of Capital Markets at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Mar Hershenson, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Pear VC Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, CEO and Co-Founder of knownwell Vanessa Larco, Partner at NEA Kirthiga Reddy, CEO and Co-Founder of Virtualness Noosheen Hashemi, Founder and CEO of January AI Amy McDonough, Managing Director of Strategic Health Solutions at Google Hayley Bay Barna, Partner at First Round Capital Jennifer Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Scribe #womeninleadership #womeninpower #femalefounders #femaleexecutives

Join #AI thought leaders & product experts on Wednesday 7/10 at 9am PST on #LinkedInLive to hear how they envision Apple Intelligence to rehaul how products will be used, designed, and built going forward. Huge thank you to our panel of experts who will join this conversation: Tanya Roosta, Ph.D., MFE, Amazon AGI & UC Berkeley Lecturer Shyvee Shi, LinkedIn Product Leader & Author of Reimagined: Building Products with Gen AI Prashant Mahajan, CEO & Founder of Zeda.io Moderated by yours truly, Yasi Baiani, CEO & Founder of Raya Register here and join the conversation: https://shorturl.at/KLZq0 #appleintelligene #GenAI #AI #productmanagement #productexperiences University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business #productleaders

Apple recently announced Apple Intelligence, its artificial intelligence (AI) platform. We believe Apple Intelligence will revolutionize how products are designed, developed, and consumed similar to how the App Store changed the way products were built and used over a decade ago. Please join our panel of AI experts, founders, and product leaders to learn more about how we envision the products to be built, integrated, and utilized moving forward. Our panelists are: - Tanya Roosta, Ph.D., MFE (Amazon AGI, Sr. Applied Science Manager & UC Berkeley AI/ML Lecturer) - Shyvee Shi (LinkedIn Product Leader & Author of Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI) - Prashant Mahajan (Zeda.io, Founder & CEO) Moderated by Yasi Baiani (Raya Advisory, Founder & CEO)

🔥 📣 Exciting senior roles opening up with our clients at Raya 🔥 📣 ✅ VP of Product & General Manager - Series D, AI company (US only, remote) ✅ VP of Product - Series D, Enterprise SaaS company (US only, remote) ✅ VP of Marketing - Series B, Health Tech company (Bay Area only) ✅ VP of Engineering - Series D, Fin Tech company (US only, remote) 👋 If you are interested, please comment below and express your interest. 👉 If you know others who are looking for similar roles, please tag their names. 👍 If you are interested in hearing about the roles that come our way, please add your name to our Talent Pool (link in the comments). #hiring #hiringalerts #jobalerts #gethired #openroles #recruiting

Pave your own path.... 🤩 And make your own #career decisions based on your criteria... Let me share my experience... Last year about this time, I turned down the Chief Product Officer (CPO) role in a health tech company with $70M+ revenue and aggressive growth goals. In many ways, it was the #dreamjob I've worked my whole career for.... In other ways, it wasn't a right fit for the following reasons: * The company was based in Texas and it was expected for me to be there 2-3x per month. With two little kids and my mother being a stage 4 cancer patient, I knew I couldn't do that type of "commute to work". * The company had aggressive goals of delivering 3-4x growth through innovation and M&A. In the past, I've delivered those types of growth both through innovation and M&A (hence they wanted me on their team), but I couldn't see that being a rational business goal in this environment. * I wanted to pursue my #entrepreneurial path which I had put on hold before joining my previous company. I decided that even though the timing may not be perfect (it will never be in some ways), I will move forward with that. I officially launched Raya and started building the business. Looking back at this one year later, I couldn't be happier about the decision. Here are the learnings -- hopefully you all can take something to apply to your career decision: ✅ Know your family/life < > work balance criteria and priorities. ✅ Don't make career decisions based on fears. ✅ Do things differently. Don't follow the herds. ✅ Have a portfolio career model and create alternative revenue streams. ✅ Be eager to learn and get out of your comfort zone. Hope you all dare to pursue what's best for you and define your own path, even if that may be different than the conventional or expected paths. #LIPostingDay #careeradvice #careerexperience #paveyourownpath #worklifeharmony #worklifebalance