The Secret to Career Pivots | Mahak Sharma

Making career pivots is not about jumping out of the frying pan into a fire but rather to create a plan where you make clear actionable steps or pivots to a better future career. Mahak Sharma has successfully transitioned industries and across large tech companies and she joins us to share her story today. She's now a full-stack product, strategy, and operations leader. She works at Google and leads growth partnerships with some of the largest and most established commerce businesses in the world. Prior to Google, she spent 6 years building startups and was most recently Head of SMB Growth @ Twitter, VP Business Development at InMobi where she helped incubate and grow revenue partnerships globally across Asia, Europe, and the US. Mahak holds a Masters in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and her Bachelors from IIT (India). She is an active angel investor and also advises start-ups on high impact growth operations. Throughout our conversation, Mahak divulges her personal encounters with change and effective remedies to push past the challenges we encounter during our careers.