Denise
Tilles
Product Leader and Co-author
Product Operations
With over a decade of product leadership experience, Denise Tilles supports companies like Bloomberg, Sam’s Club, and athenahealth to enable meaningful outcomes for customers + the business through targeted support in product operations, product strategy, org design, and coaching. On the operating side, she’s built and led product teams at Cision, Conde Nast, and Understood.org.
20 March 2025 09:15 - 09:45
Leaner times ahead: Why product operations is more important than ever
Recent large companies’ mass layoffs show how the pendulum may be swinging back to “don’t talk about how to do the work.” - Will companies miss out on enabling functions like product operations because of the backlash of poor agile deployments? - Could this short-sighted POV force PMs back into the “Build Trap?” How to show your exec team why product operations is a key asset when doing more with less.