Felix Watson

Felix Watson is a Product professional with ten years of experience delivering delightful customer experiences and working for diverse types of companies, including Telecom hardware and software, mobile apps, business applications, data and AI, Travel tech, and cloud services. Currently, he is a Product Leader at Google, focused on Google Play products and growth.

Previously, Felix worked as a Product Manager at Microsoft in the Azure cloud services organization. He built experiences that helped support engineers gain insight into Azure services and individual cloud resource availability. Felix increased feature usage and feedback ratings of his product by 80% and 5%, respectively, and shipped a new platform capability, providing a consistent availability-troubleshooting experience for over 100 Azure services.

His career journey started as a Software Engineering for the United States Department of Defense, and after for Ciena, a telecommunication company. When he began an internship at Microsoft, Felix became a Product Manager, working with Dynamics 365, a customer engagement platform. After, he founded Hansel, a location-data technology company, where he led a team to build an MVP for iOS in 8 weeks.