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Welcome back [FIRST_NAME], and a big hello from myself and Pulkit Agrawal, your new HTC Marketing VPs! We are excited to bring you all the tech news you need over the next year, and hope to continue the incredible HTC legacy. We also wanted to sincerely thank Fede and Aron for their amazing leadership on this newsletter over the past year. We have truly learned from the best!

We hope you all had a restful winter break and are ready to hit the ground running this semester!

Let's do this!

We Have a Winner!

Fresh New Jobs For You

• Salesforce Product Manager: You will be responsible for defining a strategic narrative through the lens of customer stories and thought leadership content. You will live the customer journey and help inform and retell the magic of how Salesforce has helped companies transform. You will align customer storytelling to position against the competition. You will help Salesforce identify and develop the next set of products and features. Successful candidates will have a passion for taking the complex and making it simple and for marketing through compelling stories.
• AirBnB Platform Finance, Biz Finance & Analytics: Airbnb is seeking (4) first-year, full-time MBA students for a 12-week virtual internship. While interns will work primarily with team members based in our headquarters in San Francisco, CA, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this internship will be virtual and we welcome applications from candidates across the United States.* Start and end dates are expected to coincide with the school calendar.
• Nvidia, Product Marketing, Customer Stories:  Nvidia is looking for an MBA Intern to join their NVIDIA Data Center product marketing team. This role is focused on working with customers as well as the product team to drive messaging, positioning and content assets that clearly communicate the value proposition for NVIDIA data center platform. NVIDIA GPUs have changed data center computing. They are the engines fueling the modern artificial intelligence revolution and are broadly deployed in enterprise, cloud and the largest supercomputers in the world. If you want to drive the adoption of groundbreaking technologies and make a difference, in a fun, dynamic work environment, Nvidia wants you to apply!
• Cruise, Go to Market:  Cruise’s Go To Market team is responsible for designing and executing Cruise's operational strategy. Their mission is to unlock the full potential of self-driving cars by creating a scalable service that delights customers - connecting them to the people and things they care about at the lowest cost. Marketers collaborate across Cruise and our partners to develop vehicle platforms like the Cruise Origin, support the growth of our all-electric fleet, and build the products and tools necessary to run operations across markets. Join Cruise in building the world's safest, most sustainable fleet of autonomous vehicles.

• Adobe, Product Marketing Manager, AEM Sites: In this position, you will be defining and leading a go-to-market strategy for Adobe's product area of ownership. Creating the core customer-facing messaging and assets for product launches is also a key responsibility of this role. You will develop and own marketing tools and content for priority product and solutions launches on Adobe's website, collateral (datasheets, brochures, whitepapers, presentations, case studies), interactive demonstrations and multimedia presentations, and other content that you deem vital.
• Sage Intacct, Product Marketing Manager: Sage Intacct is looking for a talented Product Marketing Manager to play an important role in leading product marketing for our industry verticals – Financial Services, Software/SaaS, Non-Profit, Hospitality, Healthcare, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Wholesale Distribution, and Quickbooks. You will play a pivotal role in driving customer campaigns, product launches and updates, content creation, social media campaigns, webinars, web copy, competitive research, sales enablement and more to help us drive awareness, education, engagement and growth in these critical industries.
• Zepeto (Internship and Full-Time): Zepeto, a 3D avatar-based mobile app with over 200M registered users, is looking to hire across Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development, and Business Operations, both full-time and interns. Candidates can choose to work either in the company's US or Korea offices. The app is especially popular among Generation Z in Asia, the US, and Europe. The company is backed by Naver and LINE, Asian tech companies with huge presences in Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Please refer to the pdf and Instagram, YouTube pages for more information about the company. The company will hold an info session on January 27th (next Wed) 5:30pm PST. If you're interested, please RSVP here. 

Good luck!

Upcoming

• Building an Actionable Product Strategy:  In this talk, we'll walk through a strategic framework for different kinds of products. And also share how to put your strategy into action. The speaker is Abhijit Tamhane who is the Director of Product Management at LinkedIn. Abhijit joined LinkedIn from HackerRank, where he was VP of Product Management overseeing the Product Management and Design function. Before HackerRank, he was the head of Product Management for the Commerce Group at Target.com and Mobile. Over there, he played an instrumental role in establishing global Product teams and leading a technology led transformation of Target’s Ecommerce business. Prior to Target, he has held Product leadership roles at Salesforce and Hightail. Abhijit holds an MBA from University of California at Berkeley, and a MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Live Chat with Former Sr. Netflix PM:  Join in and get all your Product Management questions answered during our online event with Johnny Chang, Product at Netflix. Some questions that will be answered include: What is the best part of being a Product Manager? What is the worst part of being a Product Manager? What do you look for in a Product Management resume and/or candidate? What was a difficult Product Manager interview question you’ve had? And how did you answer it?
• "Next Flexible Display" International Design Competition: Large size flexible display technology has been developing and being ready for the market. This is a great opportunity to join the industry to be one of the design pioneers to discover a brand new product type together. To contribute future design and technologies with your breakthrough ideas and make a truly worthwhile experience. Participants will be asked to submit the presentation of their idea for “Next Flexible Display” by the application in the official website. With the concept presentation by 1 PDF and 1 short video which can clearly explain the concept of product design and user scenarios, moreover the value of flexible display usage.
   

...and this.

Brain Power

A Haas MBA alumn reached out to us to pilot a new product her partner is working on. Emily Brechlin (FTMBA '20) is in Product Growth at Facebook, and her partner, Gino Alberto is working on a group video startup called Sockhop. They're looking for early users for feedback and testing.

The product is a group video app built for fun and socializing. It's on a physics simulator, so your video bubble can move around and bump into others. You also have proximity volume, which means you can adjust your sound circle to have conversations with people nearby in the shared space. This is intended to replicate how we hang out in real life. Along with the physics and sound circles, the team created low-stakes games (soccer, golf, hackysack), drawing, and customization options for your video bubble and backgrounds. Perpetual rooms are always-on, so folks can drop in and hang out - it's like the virtual MBA lounge!

The team is excited to introduce Sockhop to Haas as a way for the class to hang out and socialize. They went ahead and created a room for us that we can use for free. Check it out: https://sockhop.me/room/Haas-MBA-Lounge.

And if you're interested in learning more, you can visit their homepage at home.sockhop.me. They only ask that we provide feedback - which can be submitted directly through the Feedback button on the website or by emailing info@sockhop.me. And if you want to connect with Gino directly, feel free to email him at gino@sockhop.me.

Even Raven wants to try this out...

Time for the new Spotlight Feature!

Pulkit Agrawal, Apple Program Manager
 

Thank you Pulkit for being our first feature!

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