Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Najla Elmachtoub

Najla is currently a Director of Engineering at Delivery Hero in Berlin.

Najla is currently a Director of Engineering at Delivery Hero in Berlin. In previous roles at Etsy and startups in New York and Mexico City, she led product teams across several domains, including mobile, fullstack, machine learning, and adtech. Her passions lie in coaching managers and engineers to grow in alignment with themselves and the business, positioning teams in high-leverage ways, and creating community – all in service of delivering value to customers. She is a big believer in growing teams with empathy, bringing people along for tough decisions, and advocating for others.

How does context switching impact team productivity?

In this panel, we’ll dig into why unmanaged context switching is detrimental, and ways you can help developers handle interruptions, and reach (and maintain) a state of focus and flow.

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Become a stronger leader for your cross-cultural team

Having members of your team based all around the world requires you to have a flexible mindset and communication style.

Working with leadership to plan for a successful new year

With knowledge of business context, an understanding of leadership’s priorities, and a strong roadmap, you can make the most of your annual planning process.

Creating a user-focused engineering team

Watch the webinar to learn how to include your engineering teams in conversations around product design and strategy.

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Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot

How to recover really quickly from failing really slowly