<h2><strong>Journey to Becoming a Chief Product Officer</strong></h2>
<p>Adrienne Jan shared her career trajectory, starting from <a href="https://boutique.orange.fr/">Orange</a> to becoming <a href="https://www.scaleway.com/en/">Scaleway</a>&#8216;s Chief Product Officer. Her journey took her from France to California and back, working with startups and major companies like <a href="https://www.aegsev.com/">AEG</a>. She emphasized the importance of international experience, saying, &#8220;Go work abroad. It gives you a lot of interesting insights on cultural differences and how they also affect the way our products are used.&#8221;</p>
<h2><strong>The Role of Diverse Teams in Product Development</strong></h2>
<p>Adrienne highlighted the significance of her diverse team at Scaleway. The team consists of product managers, designers, tech writers, product marketers, and UX researchers. She explained, &#8220;Product managers are in charge of implementing the product strategy and working with the engineering team to build the product.&#8221; She stressed the importance of each role in creating successful products.</p>
<h2><strong>Triple the Velocity in Product Development</strong></h2>
<p>One of Adrienne&#8217;s notable achievements at Scaleway was tripling the velocity of product development. She explained that this rapid development is crucial for competing with major American cloud providers. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to probably launch 30 new products this year,&#8221; she stated, emphasizing the need for speed and efficiency in bringing products to market.</p>
<h2><strong>AI Innovations and Partnerships</strong></h2>
<p>Adrienne discussed Scaleway&#8217;s partnership with the French AI company H, providing a supercomputer of GPUs for training large AI models. She noted the importance of European innovation, stating, &#8220;Not all of AI is American or Chinese. There&#8217;s a lot of opportunity for Europe to have a strong positioning with great engineers and a lot of innovation.&#8221;</p>
<h2><strong>The Future of AI in Product Management</strong></h2>
<p>Adrienne is optimistic about AI&#8217;s role in product management, believing it will automate routine tasks and allow for more focus on creativity and innovation. She advised future product managers to be pragmatic and take risks, saying, &#8220;Our job is creating products, and that requires human intelligence in terms of strategy and positioning.&#8221;</p>


Dan Taylor

Ben Costantini

Adrienne Jan

<p>Journey to Becoming a Chief Product Officer Adrienne Jan shared her career trajectory, starting from Orange to becoming Scaleway&#8216;s Chief Product Officer. Her journey took her from France to California and back, working with startups and major companies like AEG. She emphasized the importance of international experience, saying, &#8220;Go work abroad. It gives you a [&hellip;]</p>


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Adrienne Jan