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Technical Product Management

Platform Product Management

Front-end

Back-end

Full stack

QA Engineer

Growth Hacking

Program Management

Project Management

Development Operations

Architectural Engineering

Raphael Neves

Founder | Tech Career Coach

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Product roadmap

Ruby

ChatGPT

GitHub

Golang (Go)

Hotjar

Java

JavaScript

Jira

Lucidchart

Notion

Confluence

Node.js

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

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 ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

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

Working cross-functionally

Spearheaded a 70+ member engineering team, fostering collaboration and achieving strategic goals.
Directed six engineering managers and six tech leads, emphasizing people-centric leadership and customer focus.
Collaborated with different stakeholders and partners to create the deprecation plan of our legacy system, and define the customer migration strategy to increase the product adoption rate and enhance our go-to-market approach, improving our NPS from 7.2 (2022) to 8.3 (2023), and closing deals with enterprise customers with >1,000 paid seats.

Led a management team of three engineering leaders and two tech leads, fostering synergy and transparent communication, resulting in a 25% increase in team productivity.
Created a career ladder framework, improving role clarity and progression paths, leading to a 20% increase in employee satisfaction and retention.
Contributed to the Product Roadmap, aligning it with company goals and customer needs, achieving strategic OKRs to close new customer deals, and drive innovation.
Implemented a performance review process, focusing on regular feedback and mentoring, resulting in having 100% of the engineering with a clear career development plan that matched with personal ambitions and company objectives, reducing the turnover rate from 7% (2022) to 3% (2023).

Directed a remote team of eight cross-functional engineers, ensuring alignment with business stakeholders, and excellence.
Organized backlogs and facilitated ceremonies, maintaining clear project direction.
Coordinated release trains and deliverables, ensuring timely product releases.
Developed a stakeholder engagement strategy that improved project approval rates by 20%, streamlining project initiation and execution.

Led software solution analysis and design, leveraging microservices architecture.
Promoted collaboration through agile facilitation and stakeholder engagement.
Developed scalable software applications, focusing on continuous quality improvement.
Optimized the software development lifecycle, reducing project delivery time by 25% and increasing project completion rates.

Raphael Neves🇵🇹

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