Leadership and management
What is your management experience?
source: Tom's own account
I've led teams of 5-15 across multiple roles:
- LEO Diagnosis App: 12-person ML/CV team
- Host Europe: Created New Media department, 5-6 direct reports
- EuroDNS: 4 direct reports, remote/hybrid setup
- LEO TREAT: Inherited 15-person team in turnaround situation
Managing people is something I can do and enjoy, but it's not my primary motivation. I'm motivated by creating impact - sometimes that means being a people manager, other times it works best through informal leadership or hands-on building.
Direct answers
- Novo Nordisk, Head of Patient Products: led 6 experienced PMs building consumer engagement products, for a period, before moving into the pill team where the need was greatest, management by outcomes; overcame resistance to establish weekly demos and experiment sharing, broke product silos and encouraged learning loops[NOVO.R2]. Hiring: hired and managed the New Media team at Host Europe, 5-6 direct reports[HOST]; rebuilt the US marketing department before recruiting a US-based successor[UK2.R1.USTURNAROUND]; built the marketing team from scratch at Opbeat[OPBEAT]. Direct reports by role: Novo 6 PMs; Wegovycare team of 10[NOVO.R1]; Diagnosis App 12[LEO.R3]; TREAT 15 inherited[LEO.R1.TURNAROUND]; TwentyThree 10-12[T23]; EuroDNS 4[EURODNS]; Host Europe 5-6.
- Product teams owned: eight across five companies, LEO 3[LEO], Novo 1 plus six PMs led[NOVO.R2], UK2 2[UK2], Host Europe 1[HOST], EuroDNS 1[EURODNS]; five of the eight were domains, hosting or client software.
source: Tom's own account, direct answers
Related
- TREAT: how did you bring the TREAT team onside LEO.R1.TURNAROUND
- Ask: what are you like to work with META.COLLEAGUE
- Ask: do you prefer being an IC or a manager TQ.MGMT
- Diagnosis App: Tell me about the diagnosis app LEO.R3
- EuroDNS: How do you manage remote teams? EURODNS.R1.STORY.REMOTE