John Cutler
Senior Director, Product Enablement, Toast
John Cutler focuses on the messy overlaps and patterns of product—The Beautiful Mess (the title of his newsletter). John currently supports product teams at Toast as Senior Director, Product Enablement. Before Toast, he interacted with diverse product teams and product leaders worldwide as a product evangelist and coach at Amplitude. Few people in the world have this kind of exposure, and if you follow John's writing over the last couple of years, you can see the influence of this perspective. He has a background in product management and UX research, including B2B SaaS companies like Zendesk, Pendo, and AppFolio, and before that, B2C, ad-tech, banking, and media. John is a prolific (or some might say obsessive) writer, with almost a thousand posts spread across various newsletters, blogs, and Medium.
Rosenverse talks by John:
" Models are sense-making tools; trying to come up with one preeminent model for the company is a recipe for disaster. "
Oxbows, Rivers, and Estuaries: How to navigate the currents of change (without burning out)
December 3, 2024
" The top priority is often the lack of a priority, resulting in teams spending 50% of their time jumping between priorities. "
Prioritization for designers and product managers (1st of 3 seminars) (Videoconference)
June 13, 2024
" The highest leverage thing you can do is design statements that capture the essence of what you’re doing in ways that can set sail a thousand ships. "
The Alignment Trap
November 29, 2023
