What are some ways that junior and newer pms can get greater exposure to the C-Suite?
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Matterport VP of Product • 3y
Use your product launches as a way to communicate how you are solving customer problems and driving company outcomes. Most companies these days employ communication plat...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 3y
Communicate on topics that matter to the executives through the comms channels that scale. For example, you can write your thoughts (but remember to bring specifics/numbe...
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BILL Director of Product Management • 9mo
I always say "do the job you want, not the one you have", and I feel that's very applicable here. Usually, an organization has no shortage of ideas or initiatives, but of...
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GitLab Group Product Manager • 8mo
I think that everyone struggles with this when they start as a PM. Typically, I've found that it's simultaneously exciting and terrifying to get exposure to the C-Suite a...
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IBM Product Management • 2y
When I started my PM journey a posting from a prominent Amazon Product leader was something that was referenced. In this piece, the author suggests there are a few traits...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 3y
Quite simply - get involved and that in things that affect the outcomes that matter to executives. First make sure you clearly understand what you’re executive teams foc...
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Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category • 2y
The first question is why would you want to have exposure to the C-Suite?We often think that getting exposure will help our career, but that's not really true. What will ...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management • 3y
Aligning to Organisation strategy and working on building great products is a key way to stay close to C-Suite. Bring innovation to the organisation. Take mentorsh...
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Square Product Lead • 2y
This likely depends on the size of the company and the different rituals you may have. Obviously the bigger the org, the harder it is to get direct exposure to the c-suit...
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