Jason Messer
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Helping You Build Your Dream Career | PM @ Databricks | Ex-Microsoft
Studied at Brigham Young University
Works at Databricks
Available Tuesday at 3:00 AM UTC
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Jason's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $49/hr
Get help with General Exploration, Skill Building, and .
Jason’s Product Management Qualifications
Experience level: Product Manager
Product manager fueled by customer feedback and energized by building products that make people feel like they have superpowers. I’ve been lucky to do that full-time at Microsoft and Databricks. I believe we have two ears and one mouth for a reason and that curiosity, active listening, and humility are the foundation of world-class products. My PM superpowers are positivity, driving alignment and consensus, and detail-oriented problem solving. Whether you’re trying to break into product management or just trying to level up, I’d love to help you uncover your super powers and how you can use them to build the career and life you want.
Jason can help with:
General Exploration
Skill Building
Strategy & Vision
Resume Review
Frameworks
Behavioral Interview Prep
Salary Negotiation
Execution
Promotion Strategy
Networking Strategy
LinkedIn Review
Influence & Collaboration
Product Case Interview Prep
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager
Databricks
September 2024 - Present
Product Manager
Databricks
April 2023 - September 2024
Product Management
Product Manager II
Microsoft
September 2021 - April 2023
Interviewer
Product Management
Product Manager
Microsoft
October 2020 - September 2021
• Facilitate monthly reviews with executive leadership of Azure wherein the current state of Linux on Azure is presented along with key blockers for customers. • Perform competitive analyses with Azure, AWS, and GCP in Storage, Networking, and Compute product areas to discover strategic advantages and shortcomings of the Azure platform. • Align key stake holders and cross team dependencies throughout Azure to improve the Linux end to end experience on Azure. • Influence product direction and semester planning with key customer insights and highly technical documents outlining problems. • Involved in several mentor groups to university students and early in career technical groups. Product Management
Product Manager
Microsoft
May 2020 - September 2020
• Developed/Programmed Experiment Generator tool to rapidly generate A/B experiments to obtain customer feedback on product direction and feature development. Obtained partner level buy in to incorporate the tool into future product decisions. • Dealt with high levels of ambiguity in turning a rough goal to improve the ability to make data driven decisions into a well defined project and plan. • Created and ran surveys to obtain data on friction caused in Azure VM creation and connection process. Applied findings to simplify VM creation and connection. Product Management
Software Developer
Halosight
March 2019 - May 2020
• Solved complex Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems through the use of neural networks as well as linguistic algorithms to maximize efficiency • Designed and developed new customer onboarding experience through full stack development utilizing a tech stack of Angular, cloud-based databases / data stores, and Java • Worked closely with alpha customers to understand specific business needs and architected a product to solve them Product Management
Teaching Assistant
Brigham Young University
December 2018 - March 2019
Assisting 300+ students in • Understanding and applying concepts of discrete mathematics to computing • Writing complex programs utilizing discrete mathematical structures (finite state machines, propositional and predicate calculus for logic, and relational algebra for databases) • Design solutions for programming problems that are practical and maintainable
Teaching Assistant
Brigham Young University
September 2018 - December 2018
Assisting 170+ students in understanding: • Mathematical Models of Computing - Automata Theory • Limits of Computing - Computability Theory • Big O time complexity of algorithms - Complexity Theory
Intern
RGP
May 2018 - July 2018
• Consulted for multi-billion dollar joint venture client (ULA) in the aerospace and defense industry, provided key data to empower executive review of potential cloud based data solutions (AWS/Azure/Google), migrating from legacy HPC (high powered cluster) • Facilitated analysis and dissemination of large volumes of enterprise corporate data – finance, accounting, operations, HR, sales and marketing – using waterfall systems/methodologies • Participated in a virtual team and divided the region accordingly to optimize efficiency and overall effectiveness • Analyzed multiple target markets (Denver, St Louis, Utah) to identify potential enterprise prospects including direct contacts at the VP and C-Suite level (in support of the VP of Busienss Development) • Planned, marketed and held a successful executive business development meeting, attended by 25+ Fortune 1000 C-Suite and Executive prospects and clients – focus of the meeting was around strategy and adoption of technical accounting standards within publicly traded companies • Supported the technical conversion and tier 1 IT support of an enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) software transformation (Workday)
Education
Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science
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Overall Rating
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