Vasudha Mithal
Chief Product Officer, Care Solace
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Vasudha Mithal
Care Solace Chief Product Officer • August 23
My top-3 favorites purely from a product perspective: * Google Photos, for very delightful and practical uses of AI * Huckleberry, for attempting to solve the problems of new parents in a tech-first way * Tesla, for the beautiful combo of hardware and software to create an overall rich ......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • August 24
A few things: * A very deep understanding of the problems they are looking to solve. This gets reflected in how they speak about past experiences (why did you choose to work on a specific problem, what exactly was the need?) as well as any case study (are they asking intelligent questi......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • August 23
No matter how many parents I saw before at work, I was nowhere close to realizing the true joys and challenges of working parents. A few things: * As you are solving world problems and developing your team at work, you are also growing and nurturing the leaders of tomorrow at home. I now thi......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • December 6
It is important to understand the product culture of a company. PM work is very often confused with project management (as you are experiencing). Your manager is the biggest lever in this scenario - define your goals clearly with your manager (typically companies follow an OKR based process for ......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • August 24
For very role-specific hiring: "Knowing about the role, how does your experience and skillset fit the needs?" The best answer: * Reflects the candidate really understands our company, has done research to know what might be top of mind and has taken the time with the recruiter to clarify ......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • December 6
Generally, a good way to transition is when you change one dimension at a time. So, either change your company, role or industry. Trying to move across several things is hard (not impossible). In that context, the best shot is at trying for a product role within your existing company. Build relat......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • December 6
Innovation is best achieved by diversity of ideas. Diversity can be achieved by many ways - one of which is including views from multiple industries and domains. While hiring for a generalist role, it is important to leverage interview questions that are going after the skill vs. domain knowledge......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • December 6
* Understand how commercial teams are setup, how products are priced, what's a typical sales cycle and even more top of the funnel - how is marketing run, target customers and the value props. * Build a basic empathy for a B2B buyers journey - which platforms are potential buyers alre......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • August 24
The most important thing to prioritizing a product roadmap is to deeply understand your company's strategy. How does your leadership think about 1) Goals for the year (revenue, profitability, user retention/satisfaction, ...) and 2) Balancing goals that might contradict each other (revenue growth......Read More
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer • December 6
The work keeps getting more and more ambiguous the more senior you become. You have to take initiative to stay connected across the company, keep a pulse of the market/news to ensure you are able to guide the work of your teams. It becomes less about working on a specific project but more about e......Read More
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Credentials & Highlights
Chief Product Officer at Care Solace
Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn
Product Management AMA Contributor
Lives In San Francisco, CA
Knows About Product Management Skills, Product Management Career Path, Product Strategy, Product ......more
Speaks English, Hindi