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AMA: Gainsight Director, Product Management, Sailaja Kalle on Product Strategy

October 8, 2025 @ 10:00AM PT

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  1. How do you get the exec team on board with your product strategy?

    Sailaja Kalle
    Sailaja Kalle

    Gainsight Director, Product Management • 8mo

    Product Strategy needs to align to Company's overall vision and the problem that we want to solve. Who are we Helping ... Solve what ..... With .......WHy they we will choose us over ....... because we have..... If we have a clear understanding and alignment of the above problem statement with the executive team, then we have alignment over overall direction and strategy for the product. Also having a understanding of what our current product and market strategy is and our vision of where we wan ...Read More

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  2. How do you plan releases? What development methodology does your company follow?

    Sailaja Kalle
    Sailaja Kalle

    Gainsight Director, Product Management • 8mo

    Our Releases includes what we have as new feature development, existing customers requests, bugs and performance /tech debts. Given this, we try to do a 6 week release cycle with bug features or customer facing changes and multiple hotfixes which cater to fast deployment to address bugs and other customer requests. We use Sprints to manage these cycles. We have a Annual plan broken to multi quarter plans which are further broken to Sprint planning that happens once in 2 weeks. This allows for an ...Read More

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  3. How do I know if we have a product strategy problem or a go to market problem? Our product isn’t growing as fast as we’d like.

    Sailaja Kalle
    Sailaja Kalle

    Gainsight Director, Product Management • 8mo

    The best way to keep a tab on this is to have constant check with customer base and Sales teams.

    The way I see it is if its awareness problem to retention problem. If its awareness problem, meaning fewer people are trying the product/feature, its a GTM problem. If its retention problem, meaning if fewer people who tried are sticking around then it is a product strategy problem.

    Having constant check with customers and prospects is the best way to keep tab of this problem

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  4. Which stakeholders need to have buy-in for your product strategy, and how do you approach creating alignment?

    Sailaja Kalle
    Sailaja Kalle

    Gainsight Director, Product Management • 8mo

    All internal leaders and cross functional leaders - Sales, Marketing, Engineering and external stakeholders like strategic customers would need to be aligned on the strategy. Understanding of market and our buyers and their needs, existing customers and their painpoints , all the ingredients together makes the foundation for a sound strategy

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