Max Schoening
Head of Product at Notion; previously PM at Google, design lead at Heroku, VP of Design at GitHub, two-time founder
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Max Schoening is Notion's head of product, a former PM at Google, design leader at Heroku and design and engineering leader at GitHub, and a two-time founder. The one thing most worth learning from him is to hire and grow people for agency, then protect the tiny core that makes a product great.
Even if you have the skills at your fingertips, the thing that matters is agency.
AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles | Max Schoening (Notion)
Max Schoening: the story and the lessons
1Max Schoening's path through every product role
Schoening has worked as PM, design leader, engineer and founder. He was a PM at Google, ran design at Heroku, and led design and engineering work at GitHub under Nat Friedman. He founded two companies and now leads product at Notion.
Because he has lived across roles, he reads the merging of PM, design and engineering as a natural next step.
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AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles | Max Schoening (Notion)
Shows how a product team can get designers and PMs prototyping in code, why agency matters more than skills in the AI era, and why great products rest on one tiny exceptional core. Comes from Notion's head of product, who pushed designers and PMs to ship code and helped launch a widely loved AI agent.
Schoening has worked as PM, design leader, engineer and founder. He was a PM at Google, ran design at Heroku, and led design and engineering work at GitHub under Nat Friedman. He founded two companies and now leads product at Notion.
Because he has lived across roles, he reads the merging of PM, design and engineering as a natural next step.
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