AMA: Meta (Facebook) Head of Technical Program Management, Vasanth Arunachalam on Technical Product Management

I'll answer this question in combination with "How is the role of technical product manager different than other product managers?" There is likely no formal definition o...

This response also applies to one of the other questions asked here - "What qualities stand out in some of the best TPMs you know?" I strongly believe that you can be a s...

I’ll try to answer this first question along with the question of - “What metrics do technical product teams look at to define success, what do you find to be the most im...

Great to hear that more and more SWEs/SREs are considering transitioning into this career. I was a SWE myself before I transitioned to this role. Technical Product/Progra...

I love this question because it flips one of the previous questions to focus more on the individual. IMO the success of a Technical Product/Program Manager largely lies i...

I personally enjoy my role. I think no challenge is insurmountable. If I were to think hard, especially at Meta, the pace at which technology advances is simply astoundin...

I talked about my take on desirable qualities in one of my previous responses, so I’ll focus on the common mistakes I’ve personally made in my career in the past, that ho...

It could be a combination of any of these things - Look at data (dashboards, customer feedback channels, internal partner team feedback) to check progress (on product su...