Petri Lehtovirta

Summary

A seasoned software, product, and program management leader with a robust background in technical leadership and executive roles. I bring a deep-seated passion for technology, product management, team leadership, and commercial challenges. Started my career as individual technical contributor, evolved into a team leader, and being now a commercially driven technical savy product executive leader. My career is distinguished by: - Hands-on extensive cross-functional leadership experience from cross continent environment. - Strong people leadership skills, underpinned by outstanding team feedback. - Success in challenging change management project, delivering exceptional results. - Management of substantial budgets up to €15 million. - Extensive interactions with major corporate executives like Google, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Compal. - Leadership principles: clear priorities, simplified targets, and hands-on involvement across various domains. - Proven ability to instill clarity and drive towards common goals among teams. - Proven ability to lead engineering, product and program management organizations based on on customer needs, analytics, innovation, schedule, budget driven decision-making. My approach emphasizes clear priorities, simplicity in targets, active involvement in project details, and leveraging data-driven insights to guide decision-making processes. My key principles to follow: - Timely and fact based decision making. Use all the available data to support timely decision making. Let's make decisions fast and calibrate when having better understanding - Simple is beautiful. Clarity and simplicity is needed for the all the levels of organization to execute towards the right direction - Shoot for winning. There is no reason to play for failure, play for win.