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What processes do you have in place to incorporate customer feedback into your product roadmap?

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Ajay Waghray

Udemy Director of Product Management, Consumer Marketplace • August 25

We have a great podcast episode about this! To summarize, it’s less about explicit processes and more about tools in the toolbelt. It’s all about right tool, right job. The tools that come to mind for incorporating customer feedback are: 1. User research. This typically involves a full user re......Read More

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How do you know if you have validated the problem space enough to start dedicating engineering resources to building out the product?

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Ravneet Uberoi

Uber B2B Products • August 31

Before investing in engineering resources you want to build conviction around the following: 1. Is there a market need? Are you fulfilling a true gap in the market? 2. Do you have a differentiated vision to deliver on this need? 3. Is there willingness to pay? 4. Does the business model ma......Read More

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What does the career path for a product operations manager look like?

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Katie Cubillas

Twilio Sr. Dir, Product - Technology Partners • April 28

In taking an end-to-end business leadership approach to this role, it opens up multiple career paths. For example- if your goal is to become a product GM, this is well aligned. If your ambition is to be a future COO, I think this is a great role to dig into. I think it's also a great extension to......Read More

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Do you approach stakeholder management differently based on the team you're talking to? (Design, Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success). And if so, how?

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Guy Levit

Meta Sr. Director of Product Management • April 26

Ultimately Product Management is about people. I do approach stakeholders differently, but it’s based on who they are, rather their role. Some stakeholders like to be consulted ahead of time, some prefer being briefed in bigger forums where they can gauge the reactions of others. Some like struct......Read More

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What's the biggest challenge you've ever faced as a product management leader and how did you overcome it?

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Neel Joshi

Google Group Product Manager, Google Assistant • August 31

Without going into specifics, the biggest challenge has been cross-organization influencing. My time at both Microsoft and Google has exposed me to lots of intra-organization projects with varying levels of buy-in from each team. The level of effort and coordination required to pull not one, but ......Read More

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What type of skill sets and experiences do I need to build in order to strengthen my career and move from being a Sr. Product Manager to Director level and above? What type of leadership career tracks do you see people continue their careers?

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Natalia Baryshnikova

Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Agility • November 9

The most concise way I've described the difference between being an IC and a manager to someone was: "As an individual contributor, you need to get sh*t done. As a manager, you need to make sh*t happen". I have covered the specific skills need for both senior PMs and Directors in another answer t......Read More

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How do you retain good talent, especially when PM roles are in such high demand across the industry?

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Mckenzie Lock

Netflix Director of Product • August 4

I’ll skip the obvious things - pay well, set a vision, growing company, skill building, career pathing - and highlight some under-rated ones: * Hire well and have high talent density. Most people who choose a career in Product Management are motivated by self improvement - being around ot......Read More

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What do you find the most difficult in Platform Product Management?

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Katherine Man

HubSpot Group Product Manager, CRM Platform • May 3

I’ve held roles as both platform and non-platform product managers and I’d say being a platform product manager is definitely the most challenging but rewarding. The most challenging part is your solutions are more abstract and less obvious. Instead of building solutions directly for customers, y......Read More

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What were your biggest challenges on transitioning from Product Manager to Group Product Manager?

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Kie Watanabe

HubSpot Group Product Manager • October 13

Going from an IC PM to a manager role was one of the most gratifying transitions in my career. Having been a manager before in a different context prior to becoming a Group Product Manager at HubSpot, I had some prior experience leading teams and operating in an environment with broader scope and......Read More

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How do you manage a roadmap when company leadership cannot or will not provide guidance? (e.g. the C-team is all newly hired and don't know enough about the product or customers)

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Marvin Green

Splunk Director, Product Management • September 13

Thanks for the question! You, my friend, are in a coveted position. I would encourage you to shift your mindset and look at it as an opportunity to influence and educate your leadership team on what you know about your customers and create a vision and strategy for your product to share with them......Read More