Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)

AMA: Microsoft Principal Product Manager, Virgilia Kaur Pruthi on Product Management KPIs

February 1 @ 10:00AM PT
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
This could really range based upon the company, your users, your target goals, where you are in your business lifecyle, etc. The most basic ones are: acquisition, activat...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
If you are lucky enough to have a PMM partner, then I would create a very transparent RACI chart which showcases who is: R - responsible A - accountable C - consulted I -...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
Interestingly enough I see two trends in the types of KPIs product teams miss. 1) Aligning with the larger's organization or business goals - Ensuring that your product ...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
Creating the right mechanisms to manage your stakeholders is critical to managing up and across. Allowing your stakeholders to stay on the pulse of your product while hav...
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How do you define and set SLAs with engineers?
I'm currently struggling to define checkout error rates for our e-commerce platform. We're currently at 1.5%. Personally, I think it's too high. However, I have nothing to substantiate my opinion.
Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
I would recommend first building a relationship with your technical lead/engineering counterpart. Have them show you how your e-commerce platform (or product area) works ...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
What a terrific question! This is one takes time and depending upon your organization will require patience. The best way I have learned, is to ask "why" a particular fea...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
I'd love to learn more about what you mean by this. In reality they shouldn't change, your customers would just be internal that's all. You could still measure activation...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
Wonderful, congrats! Get into a rhythm by understanding the business/company goals. Then understand how the tech works (look at the customer/user interface first and then...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
Such a great question! When you first set a KPI especially if you are in a new market and/or in a new product/customer space, it can feel uneasy. The best way I have lear...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
Don't think of it of what you should and should not own. Think about what makes sense to the customers you are focusing on. Then think about where you are in the customer...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
Product teams in my opinion consist of product, engineering, and design (at a minimum). With that said, product KPIs should always be shared with engineering since what t...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
This could really range based upon the company, your users, your target goals, where you are in your business lifecyle, etc. The most basic ones are: acquisition, activat...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
It really depends on what type of business it is. For instance, a product feature or product should be so frictionless that it allows users to onboard (adopt) easily once...
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Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon4y
This is a hard one as I am sure there are a ton of layers to unpack here. Whenever there is a question around metrics, I would first look to the customer and understand w...
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