Your Personal Guide in Silicon Valley

“My recent onsite interviews with Amazon went incredibly well, thanks in large part to Ellen’s amazing coaching! Her mock interview session was a game-changer. Ellen’s insightful feedback helped me refine my interview skills, like confidently conveying my passion and requesting time to gather my thoughts during behavioral questions. These tactics significantly boosted my confidence and performance. While I’m still waiting on the official offer, I feel incredibly prepared thanks to Ellen’s guidance.  In fact, compared to previous mock interviews with other coaches, Ellen’s approach stands out.  I highly recommend her services to anyone looking to ace their interviews!”

“Ellen was my most recent manager in a very chaotic time in the Assistant team. The biggest thing to highlight is Ellen’s exceptional people skills which I find very rare at Google in my almost 10 years at the company. Ellen provides me the autonomy to work independently without micromanaging me and is supportive when I need their help or advice. When I provide feedback, Ellen listens and takes the feedback seriously and acts upon it. Ellen also proactively reciprocates and provides me regular feedback with areas to improve in key areas of focus…

Most recently, Ellen led an extremely high visibility XFN quality improvement effort for Assistant in collaboration with the Assistant VP of Eng and many Directors on the PM and Eng teams. I would recommend Ellen for any role as she highly excels at a people management level as well as any high level individual contributor level.”

“Ellen created transformational process improvements by working closely with a complex network of stakeholders that increased the pre-production quality efforts within the Google Assistant organization. In addition to her own contributions, Ellen also did a great job highlighting how I could increase the complexity of my own work to navigate a path to a promotion while being an advocate for my work. Ellen’s ability to give direct and constructive feedback that improved the quality of my own work is a strong reason why I would recommend her management style to anyone.”

“Ellen was my right-hand person in managing my 4-sites organization, extending also to multiple research teams in other PAs. Ellen developed processes to track this massive amount of work, ensured we avoid duplication, and helped teams monitor their progress against OKRs… She is seen by leads in my and other organizations as the go-to person for TTS, and working with them has enabled her to come up with invaluable insights about our projects.

Ellen created TTS ProdOps from scratch, she also took on the TTS DataOps team when the team needed strong management support and guidance. Ellen not only stabilized both teams by providing direct mentorship, but also grew two senior members as the team managers and set up a sustainable and scalable operation for the long run.

To summarize, Ellen is an experienced senior PgM Lead with excellent managerial experience. She learns new domains quickly, is excellent at building relationships across organizations and always keeps the strategic perspective as a guide, even as she and her team are tasked with numerous tactical execution details. I recommend Ellen without hesitation.”

“I had the opportunity to work closely with Ellen as she led multiple initiatives to improve Assistant quality. There were a few things that really stood out in my experience working with her:

She has an unusual ability to go very deep and understand the details and also pull up and see how those details fit into the broader strategy. I saw this in her commitment to actually touring all the vendor operations for manual testing and speaking deeply with our TVCs to understand the details of their workflows and concerns. At the same time, she understood that these learnings would impact our overall approach and strategy and built out a thoughtful, nuanced POV on what needed to happen organizationally.

Ellen was extremely effective in bringing groups together. She created several workstreams of teams that historically had not worked closely together, and enabled true collaboration and landings x-team. She also elevated emerging leaders of these teams, building further trust and value.

Ellen was a trusted partner, who I could rely on to get work done and tell me honestly what I needed to hear. Any team would be lucky to have her.”

“It has been great working with Ellen on Quality on the Assistant and her influence was pivotal to the progress which we have made in bug hygiene and testing.

Ellen was great at structuring the broad program of quality and taking a principled approach to prioritizing and collaboration. Ellen outlined the broad goals of the program and ensured that all relevant parties were included to improve these. Ellen outlined a timescale for what we wanted to achieve and we largely followed that timescale and achieved our goal. Ellen was able to navigate between low level details of bug hygiene and testing and high level objectives. Ellen was very effective at communicating what she needed from gTech and always reliable at providing what we needed to make progress.

Together we were able to significantly reduce bug backlogs in assistant and establish phase one of the foundations of a health product excellence/bug operation on the Assistant. Ellen was the most impactful and collaborative PgM we’ve worked with on Quality.”

“As a director in Google Research I’ve observed Ellen’s effectiveness over a period of several years in her capacity as a program manager responsible for driving Google’s text-to-speech efforts. Her various initiatives transformed erstwhile disparate efforts into well coordinated, mutually informed strategic efforts with a high degree of coordination and mutual trust, working with common purpose and high velocity.”