Kelsey Tempel is a Senior Product Manager at Sonos, a wireless home sound system that fills your home with brilliant sound, room by room. Kelsey comes on the show to dive into all things product development like how to stay focused on your customer through the development process and how to find innovation even with an established product. She discusses what makes Sonos so unique and how they’ve adapted to significant changes like the prevalence of the cloud and covid. She highlights the importance of automation and rapid iteration in product update cycles and shares what skills she thinks make the best product developers successful.
- 1:09 - How Kelsey got into product development
- 6:40 - What makes Sonos different and innovative
- 11:50 - Best ways to identify customer pain points and evolve a product
- 12:55 - Impact of Coivd at Sonos
- 15:20 - Role of automation and rapid iteration in product development
- 18:44 - How to keep innovation going as a product leader
About the There's a Device for That podcast
Discover the unprecedented device-based solutions changing the world around us.
There’s A Device For That! showcases the unprecedented device-based solutions changing the world around us and bringing to life experiences we once didn’t think possible. In each episode, our host, Sudhir Reddy, chats with an industry leader driving cutting-edge technology, such as line-busting devices, AI-enabled doorbells, and next-generation connectivity solutions, to explore what kind of impact they’re making and what’s in store for the future. Join us to uncover the progressive ideas transforming our daily lives, from how we work to how we play to how we connect.
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