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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management • May 4
“Change is the only constant” is a cliched phrase in the industry but the reality is not far off in many lines of businesses. At Meta we often get to work with the best available information in hand and not afraid of pivoting when that information changes. That comes with a degree of ambiguity, c......Read More
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management • May 4
For the first part of the question - * I stared my career as an Individual contributor IC) and as you know that is all about specific product/platform strategy and top notch execution. I talked about the day to day of an IC in my previous AMA. * When I transitioned to a manager role with......Read More
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Rupali Jain
Chief Product Officer • March 1
There are different types of updates that need to be communicated to the rest of the company and how those get communicated is different * Vision/Roadmap: At least annually, live at the annual kickoff to the company. A recording should be available at all times, as well as part of the sa......Read More
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Zeeshan Qamruddin
HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech • April 11
As I mentioned in another answer, lean on those around you; there is a wealth of knowledge to be amassed from stakeholders and peers that have likely interacted with the product that you've been brought in to support for some time. Those same team members likely led to you being brought on board ......Read More
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Jacqueline Porter
GitLab Director of Product Management • December 7
Communicating as a product manager is probably 90% of the job. I would say you need to make sure you establish clear chains of communication, both internally and externally, especially as a pertains to product roadmap delivery updates. My favorite method of doing this is to create a safe, publicl......Read More
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David Cutler
CookUnity VP Product • June 30
I love this question because it's something I'm currently involved with at CookUnity. At a B2C company the marketing team is a Product Manager's best friend, especially in the early startup days. You can build the greatest product in the world but there are only so many Field of Dreams "if you bu......Read More
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Patrick Davis
Google Group Product Manager • August 18
I'm a huge fan of all success metrics and OKRs (objectives and key results) being shared between the core cross functional working group. Of course there will always be some that don't match up; I'm thinking about some SLAs, uptime, latency type KPI's that your engineering team tracks. But by ......Read More
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What's your day to day work involves today and when you started your career as TPM?
Please share your experience running and administrating larger programs in newer or unknown areas of your functional expertise. Thanks!How do you communicate product management updates and activities to the rest of the company?Do you have any advice for a junior PM who is a first product management hire?How do you break down responsibilities and KPIs for product launches between product management and marketing?How do you think about shared KPI’s with your engineering team? And what are ones that product teams often miss?