Growthmates: Create and Grow Meaningful Products & Careers

Welcome to Growthmates. This is Kate Syuma, Growth advisor, previously Head of Growth Design at Miro. I’m building Growthmates as a place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Canva, Loom and many more are building excellent products and growth culture. Get all episodes and a free playbook for Growth team...

Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva, and many more are building excellent products and growth culture. Subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com . Listen now and subscribe on your favorite platforms — Apple , Spotify ,...

Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva, and many more are building excellent products and growth culture. Subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com . Listen now and subscribe on your favorite platforms — Apple , Spotify ,...

Quick update 🥳 Now the Growthmates newsletter and my other posts will be sent on Tuesdays (inboxes are packed with newsletters sent on Sundays). Hope you will enjoy the episode and listen to it throughout the week! Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva,...

Quick update 🥳 Now the Growthmates newsletter and my other posts will be sent on Tuesdays (inboxes are packed with newsletters sent on Sundays). Hope you will enjoy the episode and listen to it throughout the week! Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva,...

Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva, and many more are building excellent products and growth culture. Subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com . Listen now and subscribe on your favorite platforms — Apple , Spotify ,...

Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva, and many more are building excellent products and growth culture. Subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com . Listen now and subscribe on your favorite platforms — Apple , Spotify ,...

Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva, and many more are building excellent products and growth culture. Subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com . Listen now and subscribe on your favorite platforms — Apple , Spotify ,...

Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva, and many more are building excellent products and growth culture. Subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com . Listen now and subscribe on your favorite platforms — Apple , Spotify ,...

Exciting announcement! If you're keen on Mastering Product Growth and User onboarding , join the upcoming course in April. You will get personal guidance to create a stellar onboarding experience and frameworks to turn it into live. Get a 15% discount for your team (most value for PM + Product Designer together). Learn more and get early access → https://maven.com/forms/2c51cc Welcome to Growthmat...

We’re happy to welcome you on the Season 2 of the Growthmates podcast where we will dive into insightful conversations with leaders from Amplitude, Canva, Intercom, Coda, HubSpot, and more to come. If you enjoy our show — subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com . Listen now on Apple , Spotify , or watch on YouTube (new!) . In this conversation we invited Thom Ri...

We’re happy to welcome you on the Season 2 of the Growthmates podcast where we will dive into insightful conversations with leaders from Amplitude, Canva, Intercom, Coda, HubSpot, and more to come. If you enjoy our show — subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com . Listen now on Apple , Spotify , or watch on YouTube (new!) . In this episode, Iain Dowling, Growth D...

We’re happy to welcome you on the Season 2 of the Growthmates podcast where we will dive into insightful conversations with leaders from Amplitude, Canva, Intercom, Coda, HubSpot, and more to come. If you enjoy our show — subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com. — In this episode, I talked to Jenny Chang, interim Head of Design at Amplitude, who shared her insig...

About a year ago, we launched Growthmates to connect with like-minded folks and share personal and professional growth stories. Since then, we published 10+ episodes with fantastic leaders from Dropbox, Miro, Pinterest, Adobe, Atlassian, and season 2 is coming in January 2024! As we wrap up this year, we created a special episode where Oscar and I dive into a genuine, reflective conversation — som...

In this episode, we go beyond the surface and dive deep into the art of balancing velocity and quality when it comes to designing digital products. As part of one of the industry-leading tech companies, Adam Furness, our Guest today has a wealth of experience in navigating the intricate landscape of design and development. One of the highlights of our conversation is Adam's unique framework called...

Today we had a very deep and balanced conversation Verna Bhargava, Senior Experience Design Manager at Growth in Adobe. We unpacked the topic of vulnerability for leaders and individuals who are constantly trying to achieve high results for themselves and their companies Join this conversation to hear about how Growth is organised at Adobe, what frameworks help to find space for innovation, and ho...

Today we're going to dive deep into the topic of UX research and explore how it plays a crucial role in driving growth within Miro. We’re happy to welcome a man which we have the pleasure to work with, Andrej Balaz, UXR at Miro who will share with us some of the fascinating insights and practices he employs to conduct UX research in the growth field. Stay with us to hear about building a UXR cultu...

In this episode we have none other than Lex Roman, the founder of Super Easy Digital and the Growth Tracker community, but most important, Lex is one of the true pioneers in the field of Growth Design. We dived into Lex's inspiring transition from a comfortable job in the tech industry to embarking on the path of solopreneurship. Leaving behind the security of established companies such as Invisio...

In this episode we had Zander Whitehurst, Founder of Memorisely, ex. UX Designer at HotJar and an owner of an enormous design community. If you've seen his "Supafast" reels on Instagram — You know this is Zander. During our discussion, Zander shared his remarkable journey and the challenges he encountered when transitioning from a comfortable full-time job to a Founder role, and how his design bac...

Allen shared with us his journey into design, starting more than 20 years ago and working in top companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Ebay. He's been for 4 years now at Pinterest, where he manages the growth design team. We also dived into the current state of Growth Design on tech companies and talked about the future of this role. On the second half of our conversation, Kate and Allen s...

Priya Bhatia is a Growth Product Manager at 7Shifts. We started our conversation with unpacking her story of becoming a Product Manager in Growth, and discussed collaboration with product design and how to make it impactful. Then we landed on some crucial topics such as maintaining wellbeing and mental health in a high-paced environment, and even reflected on our recent experience of practicing si...

Ioana Teleanu is a UX Manager at Miro, founder of UX Goodies Community and ex. founder of Mento Design Academy. Ioana shared with us her fascinating story of building a personal brand, creating and sunsetting her own businesses and growing through that experience. We delved into topics such as finding balance between side projects and a full-time job, growing a design community to over 220k people...

Joey Thompson is a Product Designer, Growth at Miro. Joey shared his personal growth story with us, transition from an opera singer to UX designer and how he developed his passion for behavioural design. Our discussion turned into a thought-provoking roundtable where we explored cognitive psychology principles, dark patterns, and bright patterns, and discussed examples from products like linking D...

We were talking about building happy teams, growing as a Product manager in Growth, how to create the best partnership with product designers, and how to shift the mindset of the company to be more growth-oriented. Here's what we covered: [02:34] Willie's story of becoming a Growth PM [06:02] Coming back to Dropbox and shift to Growth mindset [16:48] How to keep up the high energy in the team [26:...