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AMA: HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech, Zeeshan Qamruddin on Building a Product Management Team
April 12 @ 10:00AM PST
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HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech, Zeeshan Qamruddin on Building a Product Management Team
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Zeeshan Qamruddin
HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Flywheel • April 11
The great thing about being the first hire is something that is also great about Product Management: there is room for interpretation. My philosophy has always been more heavily focused on understanding how things operate current state, finding out pain points as well as the more successful parts......Read More
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Zeeshan Qamruddin
HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Flywheel • April 11
This is a situation that our team went through last year, scaling from 2 PMs to 10 over 12 months. Before hiring any additional PMs, we first took the time to survey the teams that existed in our current state. We reviewed the tools they owned, their missions, their place in the lifecyle of the m......Read More
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Zeeshan Qamruddin
HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Flywheel • April 12
At the company level, there are a few different methods of communications to keep everyone abreast of updates: 1. Product Notification emails (Ad Hoc) - These emails have a set template and allow product teams from around the company to share updates to their areas in a digestable forma......Read More
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Zeeshan Qamruddin
HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Flywheel • April 11
This is a scenario that teams often find themselves in, especially in fast moving parts of a business. The question I would ask when looking across the existing products is "Where do I gain the most leverage from innovation?" There are certain products that simply need to work, and that have a......Read More
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Zeeshan Qamruddin
HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Flywheel • April 12
Today, our org structure follows the ethos of "Small, autonomous teams". In this structure, we generally have a PM paired with a Technical Lead (Eng), somewhere between 3 - 5 Engineers, and a Business Systems Analyst to focus on operational and analytical tasks. Some teams have a Design/UX repres......Read More
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Zeeshan Qamruddin
HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Flywheel • April 11
As I mentioned in another answer, lean on those around you; there is a wealth of knowledge to be amassed from stakeholders and peers that have likely interacted with the product that you've been brought in to support for some time. Those same team members likely led to you being brought on board ......Read More
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