What do you think is top 3 skills a PM should have acquired to move to director level?
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
1. Storytelling. You need to be able to tie many disparate pieces of product work - user needs, business goals, technical limitaitons, competitive landscape, innovation o...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 1y
So it starts with foundational product management knowledge. Typically those folks who get promoted to Director are the top product managers in the company. That's basica...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 3y
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 contr...
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Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • 3y
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 organiza...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
Exemplary people leadership (ability to bring people along) Strong relationships across various functions (including non-R&D teams) - get done what's needed to solve...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 2y
The PM-Director role can differ from company to company. Based on my experience, at the Director level, one becomes a people manager managing an area of the business. I s...
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
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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