AMA: Netflix Director of Product, Mckenzie Lock on Establishing Product Management

The candidate must “spike” (“8/10” or higher) in all of these areas, in order of importance: 1. Critical Thinking Given how many decisions and complex problems are thro...

I’ll skip the obvious things - pay well, set a vision, growing company, skill building, career pathing - and highlight some under-rated ones: Hire well and have high t...

The good news is that you have an engineering team that is excited about the product & generating ideas. That’s huge. Over the long term, this will make your product ...

The most important thing you can do as a new head of product is to align with the founder/s and/or your manager on what your role is. Most people assume they did this in ...

Common challenges are: Fear that the PM will slow the team down or add too much process Another function has stepped in to fill the PM shoes and is reluctant to give the...