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Building a Product Management Team

I’m the first PM hire in my company. What advice would you give to someone tasked with establishing this function in an existing business structure?

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As a product manager, what are the make-or-break things for you when interviewing a potential next product manager for your team?

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Do you have any advice for a junior PM who is a first product management hire?

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What's your framework to prioritizing needs/deliverables when you're the first Product Manager at a company establishing the function?

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How do you coordinate and work cross functionally with the product marketing team to create commonly shared KPIs?

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What are the key processes you'd set up when expanding the PM team from 1 to multiple people?

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What is the single most important activity you prioritize as a product leader? Why do you prioritize this activity above all else?

- How might this shift according to company maturity and the maturity of the product you're working on? - For IC PMs, what is the single most important activity that you'd recommend they prioritize? How might this shift according to company maturity and the maturity of the product you're working on?

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Question about org structures - what does your PM team org structure look like?

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How do you break down responsibilities and KPIs for product launches between product management and marketing?

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What is an important KPI that you see product teams completely missing?

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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?

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

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

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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?

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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?

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How do you think about shared KPI’s with your engineering team? And what are ones that product teams often miss?

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How do you effectively split your attention between contributing individually and coaching your PM's? Do these two priorities ever conflict with each other?

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What is your advice for creating and/or improving the product management process when joining a small but growing team? Particularly for a small company with no or little structure?

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How have you dealt with possible overlaps between Product Managers, Business Owners and Marketing?

I was just reading an article by Marty Cagan about the scenario of Business Owners "versus" Product Managers, especially for companies using a matrix organization. Now, I'm living in a similar situation, and not only in the case of Business Owners, but it seems that depending on the side of the organization, the scope of Product Managers is divided more than expected, causing various types of issues. So, I'm curious if other companies, big or small, have also had to deal with this. Here's the link to the article: https://www.svpg.com/product-managers-vs-business-owners/

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How do you approach building a well rounded product team?

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As a Group Product Manager who has had experience working at several big companies that provide different products and services, what are the top 3 skills that you think have helped you succeed at these companies

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What is the most effective way to scale a Product Management team beyond the first Product Manager?

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When autonomous technical/product teams are actively capable of leveraging TPM’s help/skills, in those cases do you still see any/some need for SCRUM master kind of roles going forward? Thanks

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What three things do you think define a successful program and why.

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Transition to the TPM is often considered as a next career step for technical roles. How to source for such candidates granting that their profiles often lack relevant details? What job titles, qualities and skills would you recommend to look for?