AMA: Vanta VP Product, Boris Logvinsky on Product Management Skills

December 12 @ 9:00AM PT

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As a hiring manager, what do the best product management candidates have in common?

Boris Logvinsky•

Vanta VP Product • 2y

The answer depends on the stage of company and product you're working on. At Vanta, where we're growing very quickly and are still formulating many of our process, I've f...

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What are the top 3 most technical skills a Product Manager needs to have? How do you hone these skills and talk about them during interviews?

Boris Logvinsky•

Vanta VP Product • 2y

Perhaps a contrarian take, but technical skills aren't the most critical for the majority of PM roles out there, except for deeply technical products or platform position...

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What can someone who has an extensive engineering background do to prove themselves competent for an entry-level product management role?

Boris Logvinsky•

Vanta VP Product • 2y

Start by showing interest and taking steps in your existing role. Work with your engineering manager or the PM on your team to take on PM work. You can listen to customer...

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Should product management decisions be data-driven or more so data-informed? Should Product Managers lead with intuition and use data to back up their assumptions?

Boris Logvinsky•

Vanta VP Product • 2y

Product management decisions should ideally be data-informed rather than purely data-driven. Being data-informed means leveraging data to guide and support decision-makin...

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