Lucie McLean is a Product Director with 15 years experience building high profile, large scale digital consumer products. Lucie started her working career as a journalist for BBC News, before making the move into mobile product management. At the BBC she led teams to develop award-winning products including the BBC London 2012 Olympics app and mobile websites and the BBC Sport app. As head of Children’s products at the BBC she also grew and led the team to build some of the most-loved and used Children’s apps in the UK. Lucie relocated to Berlin in summer 2019 and spent some time at the travel-start up Omio before joining Zalando as Product Director of the Outfits Program, where she is also closely involved in shaping the company's product management community. She has also been a member of the board of the Zurich-based Product Management Festival for four years. The PMF organises two annual conferences in Zurich and Singapore, global-meet ups and an executive education programme with Insead. Lucie is also a regular speaker at product and digital conferences around the world. Lucie is passionate about helping people make the transition to product management, building happy, empowered teams, helping product managers find their voices and develop their personal toolkits and supporting women in tech.
My Mentoring Topics
- Product management
- Product team organisation
- Stakeholder management & communication
- Digital transformation
- Personal development
- Digital media products and content
- Public speaking and & conference speaking
J.
28.October 2021Yes, extremely! Lucie is super knowledgeable. She asked probing but open questions, allowing me to expand on my thoughts and challenges. We then discussed ideas and possible solutions in more detail, the whole time keeping me empowered to find my way to the answers. By the end of the session I felt reassured that my thoughts are on the right track and with real, tangible next steps to follow through on. For a single session, it was expremely successful. The scheme itself it really powerful and I'd be happy to consider mentoring in the future as a way to "pass it forward"
K.
21.October 2021Thank you so much Lucie! I really got a lot of insights from the session and actionable feedbacks: - how to make sure I not just focus on my comfortable area and spend time on strategy PM work - how to define some processes to avoid overloaded with testing or manual work - how to make sure I share my learnings to other PMs and gather feedback to make sure I feel confident for senior management to review
F.
18.October 2021The session was very insightful, and Lucie gave me some valuable feedback that can help my product career. I really liked when she asked me specific question to understand my need better, and provide me with a some tips that I believe I'll start using starting tomorrow
A.
30.October 2021It was a very insightful session! We chatted about effectively building product strategies and working better with engineering teams - Lucie gave me very actionable insights and overall was a great sounding board.