AMA: Mezmo Sr. Director, Product Management, Ashka Vakil on Platform Product Management
December 13 @ 10:00AM PST
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Mezmo Sr. Director, Product Management, Ashka Vakil on Platform Product Management
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management • December 13
Platform product managers are responsible for building a set of services and capabilities that are used by customers (internal or external) to build products or solutions. Operating systems like iOS and Android, Mobile app stores like Google Play, and Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are ......Read More
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management • December 13
Aligning roadmaps for product managers on individual products with the broader platform requires a collaborative approach. It is critical to establish overarching strategy and platform goals that are aligned with the company's business objectives and extremely important to understand clearly each......Read More
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management • December 13
Platform PM is a specialized role that requires technical chops and soft skills to work with external and internal customers and stakeholders while being able to go deep in the weeds but also think about the big picture of what the platform can do. As a result, there are a lot of dimensions on wh......Read More
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management • December 13
Given platform product managers are not directly building an application or a tool or a solution for a single use case, the most challenging aspect of being a platform product manager is multiple stakeholder management. This multiple-stakeholder management requires platform PMs to have certain......Read More
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