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What qualities in a B2B product manager do you think are applicable to Consumer Product Management?

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  1. Roshni Jain
    Roshni Jain

    Volley VP of Product • 4y

    This is linked to the other question, so I'll be brief here. The vast majority of fundamental PM skills are transferable regardless of B2B, B2C or platform focused work. By fundamental skills I mean  Leadership and communication - the ability to lead through influence, work with engineers, designers and many other functions and very strong verbal and written communication. PMs are the spokesperson for their product and they must have excellent communication to build the credibility they'll need ...Read More

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  2. Jeff Chow
    Jeff Chow

    Miro Chief Product and Technology Officer • 4y

    As I mentioned in the past question, B2B PM's are very good at the nuances of product priortiization given the additional dimensions coming from larger more influential customers. The healthy tension of near term revenue vs. overall growth truly helps a PM be stronger at prioritization. Related, many B2B PMs are very well versed at listening to the customer. This may be sitting in on a sales or customer success call or just hearing from account teams specific feature requests from customers. Oft ...Read More

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