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

December 12 @ 9:00AM PST

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Vanta VP Product, Boris Logvinsky on Product Management Skills

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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 • December 13

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 positions. For the general PM role, it's much more important to demonstrate your ability to delve into customer problems, set strategy,......Read More

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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 • December 13

Product management decisions should ideally be data-informed rather than purely data-driven. Being data-informed means leveraging data to guide and support decision-making, while also acknowledging the context, the subtleties of customer behavior, and the broader market trends that quantitative d......Read More

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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 • December 13

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 customers calls, gather insights and turn those into a feature or investment proposal, or perform competitive research and synthesize t......Read More

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

Boris Logvinsky

Vanta VP Product • December 13

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 found that the most successful PMs / candidates: * Customer focus. I look for past examples where they have deeply understood ......Read More

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