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Paige Costello

VP of Product @ Figma

Leads Figma's Editor group. Previously Head of AI and Core Product at Asana.

β€œAsk the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics, covering team leadership, product design, and measurement and analysis.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
FigmaVP of Product~2023-present
AsanaHead of AI & Core Product~2019-2023
IntercomDirector of Product Management~2016-2019
IntuitProduct Manager~2013-2016

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β€œWonderful. Now, I want to know who you talked to, but we'll find out.”
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Paige Costello

How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

4:19
β€œYeah, yeah. There's another group that's focused on our process management, but a lot of the core work in project management, core is in my group, and then we have a growth and enterprise scale team.”
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

5:49
β€œExactly, and people are better at it than they used to be.”
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

20:47
β€œSo I would say our remote days are more impactful than the days we're together where we're getting into the swing of things.”
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

20:50
β€œYes. I would encourage you to know your chronotype and to lock that time where you have the most head space to do that work. So, for me, it's mornings.”
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Paige Costello

How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

21:04
β€œI'm a morning person, and so I try to make sure that I don't have any meetings before 10:00, sometimes before 11:00, and that's when I do my hardest task for the day.”
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

21:15
β€œMy go-to book recommendation for other PMs is inspired by Marty Cagan. I think it's a classic. The other books that I have enjoyed and recommended lately are The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood and ...”
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

55:54
β€œOoh, I'm very much enjoying The Diplomat right now, and then TV show or movie. Let's see. I just watched the Fire of Love documentary, which is about a couple who study volcanoes, and that was a great...”
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

56:14
β€œI would say though that the advice, bits and bobs, I gave you earlier are absolutely things that I've been thinking about feeding, but I think the page bot would probably say, "Ship it."”
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Paige Costello

How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

58:10
β€œYeah, and so you can try the different models. So you can do four, and you play five, and Claude, and a few others. Yeah.”
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Paige Costello

How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

58:30
β€œYeah. So no more than three reviews on a given piece of work where people are blocking one approver. If a meeting has more than 10 people on it, we ask the person hosting the meeting to kick out the o...”
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

1:00:31
β€œThe three reviews are three people who are assigned a task to look at something, but only one person is blocking whether it moves to the next stage.”
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How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

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