Thrilled to share that Nhien Tran has joined Aptible as their core Product Lead! When Aptible engaged us to find a senior Product for their core platform, they needed someone with a sharp sense of product intuition, a strong DevTools background, and the combination of both startup DNA and experience with scale at a later stage. Nhien stood out in part because of her most recent experience at Datadog. Despite coming from a larger organization, she demonstrated the startup energy Aptible needed, combining operational excellence with a passion for solving core product challenges. Congratulations, Nhien – and a huge thank you to the hiring team at Aptible for the continued partnership. We're excited to see what the future holds! 🚀 Aptible is a platform as a service (PaaS) designed to automate infrastructure management for scaling companies, empowering developers to focus on their ideas, not infrastructure. Looking to scale your team with candidates who have a mix of scrappy startup DNA and operational excellence? Send us a note! #producthiring #startupdna #startuphiring
How do I hire someone who's seen scale, yet is still scrappy? Aptible posed this question to us and we went to work: It quickly became clear that some of the most talented candidates weren't just working at high growth startups, but within larger companies known for aggressive scale and engineering excellence. But founders are often hesitant to hire someone with lots of big company background. They're fearful there's going to be a DNA or velocity mismatch. That's where it's important to dive deep and peel back the layers of the onioin. Our conversations with Nhien Tran pretty quickly revealed some extremely promising stories. As a critical PM owning the browser side of Datadog's Realtime User Monitoring product, she had learned to work within a smaller team that needed to prove it could punch above its weight to justify more resources. When the need for a React SDK emerged, Nhien led her engineering team to create one quickly, marshaling engineers that had never built one before to treat it like an internal startup. And most critically, she had seen a rapid scaling in her product areas, seeing customers provide real time feedback and enthusiasm about the value that she was delivering. And when you enter a smaller company -- that's often the biggest question founders worry about with a PM. Are they going to build the right things quickly, or are they going to spend lots of time building smart but unneeded things? Nhien answered that question head on at every step of the interview process. Hats off to an incredible partnership with the team at Aptible, including Caroline Lau and Frank Macreery for being great collaborators during this process. And amazing work to our search lead Nikki Bruno for her endless passion in filling this role! Nhien -- we're excited to see what you do!