SCU Leavey School of Business
SCU Leavey School of Business
Product Challenge -
Product Sense
Winter 2022
Product Club is excited to showcase the teams' Presentations. Click on the teams to see the amazing work they delivered all within 4 hours!
Team members: Veni Are, Rashmi Warrier, Srihari Shekhar, Shivi Shekhar Shrivastava, and Mark Wu
Coach: Charlotte Swenson, Product Manager at Angle Health
Team 2 (Awarded Best Product Sense)
Team members: Ankitha Shetty, Sandra Joseph, Dolly Dwivedi, and Fransisca Poniman
Coach: Pranjal Daga, Product Manager at Brex
Team members: Jeffrey Lee, Priyanka Bapat, Nag Batta, Ghazal Katyal, Manit Thakar
Coach: Nina Smith, Senior Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks
SCU's Product Club hosted its 3rd flagship Product Challenge event on February 27, 2022, focused on Product Marketing. The 4-hour event was designed to inspire students for a future career in Product. Six industry experts and four participating teams of 14 graduate students attended the event virtually. Participating teams were asked to look into the idea of Product Sense. The event culminated in each team giving a presentation on their interpretation of Product Sense of improving a company's product and image followed by thought-provoking comments by the judges.
During the 4-hour event was designed, teams were given the opportunity to prepare for future product interviews related to a key skill of developing product sense. Participating teams were asked to answer the question "How would you improve Airbnb?" in an effort to identify the problem, pain points, and solutions with appropriate prioritization. Teams assess and present these items in an effort to provide a cohesive solution to the prompt. With the help of an industry expert to provide guidance as they collaborated throughout the challenge. Teams delivered a final presentation.
It was amazing to see all three teams present phenomenal work with so much enthusiasm and passion in just four hours. The judges selected two teams for the award of "Best Product Sense"! See above for all team presentations.
SCU's Product Club received tremendous support from Professor Kumar Sarangee, and Professor Charles Byers, who assisted the club in designing this event. All three teams were also paired with an industry professional serving as a coach for their teams.
Judge's Panel
Sahar Mor: Product Manager at Stripe
Shuang Li: Group Product Manager at Box
Dinkar Jain: Product Director at Meta
Coaches
Charlotte Swenson: Product Manager at Angle Health
Pranjal Daga: Product Manager at Brex
Nina Smith: Senior Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks
This event was designed and hosted by Product Club's leadership team: Melody Nouri (event lead), Ollie Zhou, Kalyani Ambulkar, Niyati Raghavan, and Arthur Mor.
Interested to know about our previous product challenges, please click here!