Ari Sussman
Chief Product Officer @ Own Up
A true player-coach in Product, Ari is measured, goal oriented, moves with urgency, and has scaled some of Boston’s fastest growing companies. He can do early: OwnUp as one of their first 10 employees. He can scale companies through growth (Vistaprint, Catalant), and public company (Walmart). I’m sure that HBS background comes in handy sometimes, too. ;)
Domain Expertise: Product Management
Most passionate problem sets:
Building world class product and design teams
Focusing on the right product problems
Understanding customers
Career Experiences: Own Up, Walmart.com, Vistaprint, Catalant, HBS
💪🏽 COACHING COURSES
1X1: Product Planning
Come up with a process to align customer and business needs with an actionable plan to execute. Planning requires a different process depending on the size of the organization and its needs. We can talk about how that process should evolve over time as the business scales.
$2,500 per month
(Typically two sessions per month + prep work + followup email/text time)
GROUP SESSION: Managing PMs & Designers
Each week we'll run a session on 1:1 employee management catered to your business's needs. All material will be customized for product and design teams. We will cover topics like the 1:1, difficult conversations, effective feedback, performance reviews, hiring, firing, and more.
2.5 hours
$325 per person
⭐ Core Values
1. Create the right habits
2. Build deep relationships
3. Affirm product value before marketing it
4. Do the work yourself before you hire
5. Optimize for learning
Interests
🏍️ Passion areas: Self improvement, fathering, keeping fit, piano/guitar, reading
📚 Favorite books: Deep work, Difficult conversations, The Riteous Mind, Hooked, Radical Candor, The Culture Code, Sapiens, Getting Things Done
🆘 Causes I support: American Jewish World Service, Room To Grow, United South End Settlements
🌍 Fun goals in 2021: Meditate for 30 minutes per day
🖋️ Top ARticles / Contributions
The Case For Trying Out A Startup 5 min read
Foundations For Setting Organizational Goals 5 min read
How A School Acted Like A Startup 6 min read
Design Sprint in Quarantine 7 min read
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