How is your product team structured?

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Melissa Ushakov

GitLab Group Manager, Product Management • 3y

I'm a Group Manager of Product at GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/product/product-management-leadership/#group-manager-product-gmp. I am a manager for the Product Managers for the Plan stage at GitLab. Each product manager on my team has engineering, UX, and quality counterparts that they work with to build their products. I also have leadership counterparts in Design, UX, and Quality. We all work together to steer the direction of a collection of teams. You can see all the details ...Read More

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Julian Dunn

Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 2y

We divide up the team by domain area and then map existing features and area-specific outcomes to them as much as possible. Obviously, it's not always possible to create a MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) division of areas of responsibility (AoRs) among all PMs, but I am constantly examining the current org structure and AoRs and discussing with my engineering leadership counterparts as to whether we need to make any changes. I should also mention that we also align engineering ...Read More

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Kalvin Brite

Contentful VP, Product Management | Formerly Twilio, SendGrid • 3y

At Contentful, we are organized into three Product Lines (Core Platform, Apps, Ecosystem) that each own a specific set of products for a set of customers. Within each Product Line, we have a 2-5 year product vision that gets revised 2x a year with each PL leader (eng and product). From this strategy, we decide the level of investment to make across each PL, and the teams needed to achieve this vision. We then create charters for each team that provides direction to the team (PM, Designer, Engin ...Read More

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