Women Tech Talk

This week I am joined by Anuka Pokharel (she/her) - Product Manager at HubSpot and I'm SUPER excited about this conversation! Anuka started her career in Politics and Economics and quickly realised she isn't creating the impact that she wants to. After landing her first job in tech within the Talent Acquisition space, she soon knew that TA wasn't going to be her forever career and she...

This week I am joined by the amazing Mark Ivan Serunjogi who's the Strategy Director at TheTruthWorks. In this weeks episode we cover a variety of different topics and Mark Ivan takes us on an interesting journey from his experience relocating from Copenhagen to New York and from New York to Berlin and how each move shaped him in different ways as a person. Mark Ivan comes from a phenomenal Em...

This week I am joined by Sérgio Laranjeira! He's recently joined as the CTO at Metacore and we have a great deep-dive conversation. During our conversation, we deep-dive into the topic of trust and transparency and how they play a vital role in every aspect of life including building successful teams and products. As someone who's been in a leadership position for over a decade, Sérgio exp...

This week I am joined by Oleksii Ishchenko who is the VP of Engineering at elopage. During this mini-series of Allies in Tech, I've invited some amazing guests to join me and share their views and experiences on what DEI means and why it's so important to have within your culture - especially in the tech world. Oleksii has a great back story - moving from Ukraine to Germany and working his...

This week I'm joined by Nataliia Senatorova, who's a Senior Product Manager at Cronofy. In this episode we discuss how she got into tech working for one of Germany's biggest Fintech companies - N26 to her journey at her new role as Senior Product Manager. We deep-dived into handling rejection, the unknown, bad (and good) leadership and being a job seeker during a very difficult year in...

This week I'm joined by Vitalja Subota who's the TA Manager at Bettermile. We uncover a range of topics from going from Web development to marketing to then tech recruitment. During her journey in tech, we deep-dive into the assumptions that women face in the industry, the lack of forward-thinking from companies and hiring managers in today's market and the impact that can have in attr...

This week I was joined by Olena Kondratenko! She's the VP of Product at the female factor in Vienna. We discussed a lot about the imposter syndrome women feel, especially when they decide they want to switch up their careers and all the thoughts and feelings that come along with it. Funnily enough, we're not alone and many women (and men) have felt the same way! Olena very openly shares he...

This week I am joined by Diana Schubert who's the Chief Experience Officer at Storebox in Europe - Vienna. Diana comes from a technical background where she studied business informatics. We explore that you need to be bold and believe in yourself and go ask for the promotion and not wait around for it and why that's so important, especially for women. We deep-dive into the importance of em...

This week I was joined by Cristina Racu and very excited for you to listen. Cristina leads a Product team in a FinTech company called Paysafe in Vienna. However, her tech journey started in the games industry as within design! She deep dives into how she had a young curious mind and just gave everything a go and kept applying for jobs until she landed her first role in Vienna. In a male-dominated...

Eva shares her interesting journey into tech. Starting from her early years in school when she knew she had an interest in technology but didn't know which route to take. After dropping out of university she later on was drawn back to tech and realised you didn't need a computer science degree to kick-start a career in tech. Through networking, she landed her first job and explained the im...

Lesley has a very interesting career path that has led her to where she is today. She went from accounting, to oil & gas to tech! We discover her journey into tech, why DEI is so important, why we need to be our true selves and the power of standing up for yourself. She's currently working within a technology incubator and helps founders create effective DEI strategies that will make them and...

Amanda has been in the tech scene for the last 6 years, working in Silicon Valley! We discuss how she joined the tech world, the challenges she's faced and the perception of being a women in tech (especially in the Silicon Valley world). ​It's a conversation that dives deeply into gender norms and how society looks at certain aspects and that affect that this can have in our day to day lives. ​If...

Valentina's journey into tech is an interesting one. She originally comes from an arts & theatre background and being creative is a big passion of hers. After graduating and sending over 80+ applications and having around 30 interviews - she finally landed her first job in tech. As her career went on and after she'd picked up technical skills, she was advised to look into tech recruitment, whi...

Sophie's journey into tech is a very interesting one. She's originally from Australia and moved to Austria while she was traveling. ​She comes from a content writing background and found her way into tech by landing a job in one of Austria's leading FinTech companies. How? She hit apply, with our meeting all of the requirements! ​Sophie explained what her experience was like when she started...

Daniela started her career within a traditional executive search firm when she was only 17! She really takes us through an incredible journey of how she got into tech and the importance of being able to make an impact. Transparency & integrity play a vital part in her day-to-day life and she describes to us why being vulnerable as a leader is the best thing you can do...

Jamie has a very interesting journey into tech and her career path is definitely far from linear. We explore her English degree, why tech was an interesting industry for her and how she landed her first job in tech. She attended coding camps and now works as a growth manager at Oliver POS. We uncover everything from being the only woman in the coding class to facing age discriminati...

Maxime found her way into Tech when she joined an Austrian Start-up - TourRadar where she started of as the Assistant to the CEO and worked very closely with the board & management teams. She then started to work within the Ops teams where she gained knowledge and later started her career at the current start-up where she heads up the Finance & Operations department. We explore what her tr...

We explore tech, recruitment, motherhood & careers and how recruitment can help accelerate your career into technology. Why it's so important to be compassionate and building meaningful & long lasting relationships.  From an early age Dorontina always loved interacting with people and helping them out. She always contemplated a career either as a doctor or psychology and psycholo...

Lisa finished her degree in Geomatics and later on found her way into software development. We explore her journey how she applied to her first internship without hitting any of the requirements on the job ad and why women need to apply without needing to hit 100% of the requirements. She also co-manages an amazing initiative called Girls in Tech Switzerland - which raises awareness...

Mia has a degree in Law and after university went into the art field and later on found her way into tech when she moved to Berlin and started her journey when she joined a start-up. ​Since then she's been heading up HR departments and has helped her companies hire for technical/non technical teams. ​We explore how she transitioned, what the experience was like, the difference between 'culture add...

Laura is a UX concept designer and is in charge of conducting research and works closely with the development & product teams to bring ideas to life. ​We explore Laura's journey into UX, how she changed her course half-way through University and her job seeking journey. We explore the subject of talking and the power that has when going into an industry where you don't have practical experienc...

Maggie is a UX/UI designer at Swat.io who's been working within the start-up world when she relocated to Vienna. She has a huge passion for product design and the limitless possibilities you have within tech. She's shares her journey to landing her first tech role, how she got into product design and the perceptions of tech. We cover such a variety of topics! Connect with Maggie: https://www.linke...

In this weeks episode I’m very excited to be speaking to Andrea Fernandez who’s the co-founder of a German start-up fintech company call Alice. We uncover her journey into finance, how childhood has an impact on our adulthood, should we start educating kids earlier on about tech & finance, her successful career at Wall-Street to now founding her very own company, where we further discussed rai...

In this weeks episode I’m very excited to be speaking with Liz Lux who is the VP of People at an Austrian start-up company called Bloom Diagnostics. We discussed people culture, the gender & diversity gap and what we as a society need to do, to unable the gender gaps to close. She also gives us an insight of her journey into tech and how she found the transition going from a learning & dev...

Today we are joined by the lovely Edna a Senior Principle Engineer who relocated 4 years ago from Bosnia to Munich to start her developer career in a company called mydays. Today we discuss her relocation journey, how she found the transitions, her journey into technology and what it means being a women in tech! We discover her education journey, what you need to do to stand out and the importance...