Full Name
Mariya Breyter
Job Title
Head of Product Management Tech @ Amazon
Company
Amazon
Speaker Bio
Mariya Breyter is a business and IT executive with twenty years of experience ranging from government jobs to versatile corporate experience in large-scale technology (Amazon), financial services (Goldman Sachs), startups, healthcare, media, and education with a passion for leading enterprise-level agile adoptions and culture changes. She is a passionate product manager, agilist, and lean thinker, and an active member of the New York City lean and agile community.
Mariya is also a contributor to a number of online resources on product management, lean, agile, and project management topics, including her own lean and agile site, www.agileleantransformation.com. She was a keynote speaker at Product World 2021 on the topic "Working Backwards Powered by OKRs". She is the author of a 2022 bestseller, "Agile Project and Product Management."
Mariya has a combined BA /MA degree in Linguistics and Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Linguistics, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Her passion is building products that delight customers, using the lean mindset, and creating high-performance teams and organizations. At home, Mariya is using lean principles to organize her family activities, and the kids use Kanban to achieve complete alignment and full transparency.
Mariya is also a contributor to a number of online resources on product management, lean, agile, and project management topics, including her own lean and agile site, www.agileleantransformation.com. She was a keynote speaker at Product World 2021 on the topic "Working Backwards Powered by OKRs". She is the author of a 2022 bestseller, "Agile Project and Product Management."
Mariya has a combined BA /MA degree in Linguistics and Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Linguistics, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Her passion is building products that delight customers, using the lean mindset, and creating high-performance teams and organizations. At home, Mariya is using lean principles to organize her family activities, and the kids use Kanban to achieve complete alignment and full transparency.
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