I joined Hive AI in 2014 as the third employee, and have been an engineer and manager of multiple teams over my time there. I helped Hive grow to over 200 employees and to a $2B valuation. I was always most excited when I had the opportunity to lead product teams and sit between designers, engineers, testers, and executives. My strength was in communicating with these disparate parties, and making sure that the most important priorities were turned into clear action items for each. I most enjoyed the work of taking executive goals, distilling them to clear information architectures, then working creatively with designers to help us think outside the box about how we can satisfy the underlying goals of the architecture in potentially new and innovative ways.