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AMA: Volley Head of Product, Roshni Jain on Building a Product Management Team

November 22 @ 10:00AM PST
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Volley Head of Product, Roshni Jain on Building a Product Management Team
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How do you communicate product management updates and activities to the rest of the company?
Roshni Jain
Roshni Jain
Volley Head of Product/VP • November 23
This varies a lot based on the size and stage of the company - so it's important to think about: * Which audiences you want to communicate updates to * What level of detail each audience needs * What frequency each audience needs * What existing mechanisms and forums exist where you can m......Read More
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If your PM team has only one or two people responsible for covering multiple products with complex features, how would you recommend dividing the workload in the short-term so as best to support long-term growth and expansion of the team?
Roshni Jain
Roshni Jain
Volley Head of Product/VP • November 23
This can be a challenging situation as there are many places the 1-2 PMs could add value. I would recommend taking two filters to the workload. First, categorize the priority of the existing multiple products across the three horizons: * Horizon 1: Strong current drivers of value that need to ......Read More
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If you were starting out in a rapidly growing company would you start by embedding some best practice and then start to build out a team or start by building a small but mighty team and tackle it as a group?
Roshni Jain
Roshni Jain
Volley Head of Product/VP • November 23
I would work on doing both. When you start out in a new role it's important to get quickly up to speed, create a plan and start adding value. Most likely you'll see many opportunities to make things better now that are a light lift. So, I would add these best practices (could be simple things ......Read More
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What is a good product manager to engineer ratio to maintain as you scale?
Roshni Jain
Roshni Jain
Volley Head of Product/VP • November 23
PM to engineer ratios can range wildly from 1 PM to every 2-3 engineers to something 1 PM to 15 engineers. This largely depends on the size of the company and the type of product. In a more entertainment context, like a gaming start-up, you might have leaner engineering teams with more PMs to de......Read More
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When is it appropriate or feasible to have multiple Product Managers at different levels (PM, SPM, PPM) within a team/squad, without altering the size of the engineering team?
Roshni Jain
Roshni Jain
Volley Head of Product/VP • November 23
There are only particular instances when, in my experience, it can make sense to have multiple product managers within a team. If your engineering structure is a squad/pod model where there is a dedicated set of engineers along on a core mission with clear ownership, I would most typically have 1......Read More
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