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

November 22 @ 10:00AM PT

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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•

Volley VP of Product • 2y

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/po...

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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•

Volley VP of Product • 2y

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 prior...

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How do you communicate product management updates and activities to the rest of the company?

Roshni Jain•

Volley VP of Product • 2y

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 toWhat level of detail eac...

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What is a good product manager to engineer ratio to maintain as you scale?

Roshni Jain•

Volley VP of Product • 2y

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...

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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•

Volley VP of Product • 2y

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 o...

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