Guide to working with me
1. Experience
- Fruitful spell as a startup COO (+100% growth y-on-y and reaching profitability)
- 5+ years in product management (marketplaces, consumer apps)
- Track record of building valuable products people love
- Know-how from every corner of a growth company (product, data, design, engineering, management, marketing, operations, customer support, finance)
- Leading distributed teams and working fully remote
- Helping people work better together: focus on clear communication and internal processes
- Data-informed decision making
- Aligning people behind company vision and goals
2. Personality
Being the most biased person when it comes to myself, I turned to a combination of personality tests (Briggs-Myers, Big 5, DISC, empathy quotient) to get a baseline for structured self-reflection. In the end, I found the following result from Briggs-Myers to be quite spot on:
INTJs have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. They have long-range vision and quickly find meaningful patterns in external events. They are independent, skeptical and critical and have high standards of competence and performance for themselves and others.
They value health, home, family, and achievement.
A couple of things to add:
- I have a low concern for others (I don’t do things to please anyone)
- Socialising takes a lot of energy from me, and I mostly prefer being on my own
3. Values
- Balance
- Integrity
- Growth
Read more here.
4. In practice
Logistics
I work office hours, don’t do overtime and am offline during my vacations.
Communication
I value asynchronous and thoughtful written communications. And GIFs.
Meetings
The less meetings, the better.
Planning and decision-making
Improving execution is a bigger leverage than perfect planning.
Me as a teammate
I’m happy to help you.
Me as a manager
My job is to help my team to be as good as they want – no more, no less. This boils down to three things: communicating clearly, creating structures (of effective work) and giving autonomy.
Me as a direct report
Ultimate leverage, if we are aligned on a personal level.