5 Questions with Natalia Burina (Director of Product Management at Salesforce) | by ashita achuthan | Women In Product | Medium

See how Natalia Burina, Director of Product Management at Salesforce, answered our questions about her career as a PM. Natalia will be speaking on the Lightning Talks panel at the September Women in Product conference. I grew up in a Seattle suburb as a first generation immigrant. My family relocated from the Balkans when my mother, a mathematician by training, landed a job in technology. Engineering inadvertently saved us from a war back home which left a profound impression on the significance of engineering skills. As a student I was very nerdy and disciplined. I studied mathematics and computer science and loved it. At the university I didn’t do much beyond keeping my nose in the books. I wanted to make my parents proud. I strived for a future that was interesting and involved working with smart people. As a student I dreamed of a job in either academia or as a software engineer at Microsoft. I was not aware of product management as a potential career. The early years of my career

See how Natalia Burina, Director of Product Management at Salesforce, answered our questions about her career as a PM. Natalia will be speaking on the Lightning Talks panel at the September Women in Product conference. I grew up in a Seattle suburb as a first generation immigrant. My family relocated from the Balkans when my mother, a mathematician by training, landed a job in technology. Engineering inadvertently saved us from a war back home which left a profound impression on the significance of engineering skills. As a student I was very nerdy and disciplined. I studied mathematics and com