United Kingdom

Customer Experience (CX)

Technical Product Management

Front-end

Back-end

Full stack

Creative writing

Technical writing

Project Management

Systems Design

AI Ethics

University of Glasgow

Jonathan Barrett

Software Engineering Manager

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

Blog writing

Cloud computing

Database management

Mathematics

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Product roadmap

Postman

React

React Native

Ruby

Figma

GitHub

JavaScript

Jira

Notion

GitLab

Redis

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Linear

Conversational AI

Negotiation

Chatbot

Information architecture

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Leading and coaching teams through expansion into the UK market, establishing ways of working and new forms of collaboration across the organisation to ensure good knowledge transfer and sharing. Also led the design and implementation of a new pillar within the organisation, working closely with stakeholders to build out technical roadmaps and capabilities, while ensuring all moving personnel were aligned with the best opportunities for growth.

Leading multiple teams in migrating M&G's digital estate to a modern platform, as well as running the intern and graduate programmes.

Leading and coaching multiple teams in the development of Indeed's staffing agency product Flex, expanding the service to the US, working with large clients to understand their needs and break down requirements with product and tech leaders to deliver iteratively, and helping many reports through growth and promotion.

First non-founder engineer at a wildly successful Edinburgh startup, delivering integrations, financial planning and calculation features, full app redesigns, and working to build team capabilities and expertise before moving into management, leading multiple teams and driving individual growth and promotions for over 20 reports

Jonathan Barrett🇬🇧

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