Kirsten Zverina nee Archer

Kirsten Zverina nee Archer

Senior Product Manager at Google Inc.

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    User-focused product leader, building B2C tech-powered products at scale, with great PMs & product teams, to improve our world and benefit global customers Experienced cross-functional leader & passionate advocate of inclusive design (esp. accessibility) to make better mass-market consumer products.

    About me

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    Seniority

    20 Years

    Hierarchy

    Manager of Managers

    Industry

    Financial Services / Fintech
    Entertainment, Media & Music
    Marketing & Advertising
    Consumer Services
    Gaming
    Internet
    Computer Software
    Logistics
    Retail
    Consulting
    Insurance

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    Diverse Teams Have Greater Customer Empathy

    6 September

    Kirsten Zverina, Head of Product at Abethos Ventures, shares her experience encouraging diversity and inclusion in her team, to spark benefits for customers in mass-market products.

    User Feedback
    Working with Product Teams
    Hiring, Retaining, or Firing
    Engineering
    Consolidating Your Learnings Through Reflection and Journaling

    6 September

    Kirsten Zverina, Head of Product at Abethos Ventures, shares valuable insights and tips on how to continue learning, despite the global pandemic.

    Working with Product Teams
    Working and Leading Remote Teams
    Internal Process Optimization
    Engineering
    Simpler Product Visions and Strategy, Create Clarity to Empower Teams

    6 September

    Kirsten Zverina, Head of Product at Abethos Ventures, found that simpler product visions and product strategies, unite with more people.

    Working with Product Teams
    Strategy and Vision
    Engineering
    Data-Driven Product Teams Are Easier to Empower and Earn Autonomy Faster

    6 September

    Kirsten Zverina, Head of Product at Abethos Ventures, shares how data-driven teams can increase their efficiency and find it easier to focus together, to boost key metrics.

    Communication and Collaboration
    Working with Product Teams
    Team Management
    Engineering
    Scaling Teams to Make Better Decentralised Decisions via Documents and Tenets

    6 September

    Kirsten Zverina, Head of Product at Abethos Ventures, shares some decision-making mechanisms like FAQs and tenets, that can help reduce the pain of scaling teams.

    Building and Scaling Teams
    Working with Product Teams
    Internal Process Optimization
    Engineering
    Dealing With Imposter Syndrome, There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Perfect PM’

    6 September

    Kirsten Zverina, Head of Product at Abethos Ventures, shares the steps she took to help a new PM overcome their imposter syndrome.

    Working with Product Teams
    Team Management
    Compensation
    Engineering
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    Experience

    Senior Product Manager

    Google Inc.

    Jan 2022 - current

    Senior Product Manager

    Founder/Product Manager

    Abethos ventures

    Nov 2020 - Jan 2022

    London based firm, building prototypes

    Head of Product

    Findmypast

    Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

    Led core platform product teams (Tree)

    Manager of Product Management

    amazon

    Feb 2017 - Nov 2020

    Led for Logistics Product rollouts in the UK, AI/ML data-based products for Retail

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