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Natalia Baryshnikova
Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Agility • February 16
1. Storytelling. You need to be able to tie many disparate pieces of product work - user needs, business goals, technical limitaitons, competitive landscape, innovation opportunities - into a coherent, compelling narrative. A director can fill in the blanks in the following sentences with ease: "......Read More
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Paresh Vakhariya
Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) • March 28
The 3 top areas I think are: Leadership and team management Managing a team of product managers, as well as collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization is key. Provide feedback on all aspects of strategy and execution is key to becoming a leader. Hiring and onboarding PM......Read More
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Julian Dunn
GitHub Senior Director of Product Management • December 1
My answer to this depends a lot on whether the "director" title includes people management or not. Personally, I believe that it should, and that the IC (individual contributor) track should only use the titles PM 1-3, Senior PM, Staff PM, Principal PM, Distinguished PM, etc. But I don't make the......Read More
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Milena Krasteva
Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • October 6
1. Communication
2. Execution
3. Domain expertise
I'd add stakeholder management as an important one but I can only do the top 3 :)
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Vasudha Mithal
Headspace Health Senior Director, Product Management • August 22
1. Exemplary people leadership (ability to bring people along) 2. Strong relationships across various functions (including non-R&D teams) - get done what's needed to solve a problem, and get products launched. 3. Maturity to know when to switch course for a product line, drive tough de......Read More
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