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What skills do you look for in a good Outbound Product Manager?

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Outbound Product Management Product Management Skills
  1. Sarah Joshi
    Sarah Joshi

    Atlassian Director of Product • 11mo

    Deep enterprise SaaS experience, especially working directly with large, complex customers. Relentless customer focus: comfortable engaging with C-level execs, landing deals, and de-escalating tough situations. Strong cross-functional collaborator: can partner with engineering, sales, and other teams to drive big initiatives. Excellent communication and influence: represents the product org with customers and influence both internal and external stakeholders at all levels Systems thinker: has a ...Read More

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  2. Sailaja Kalle
    Sailaja Kalle

    Gainsight Director, Product Management • 3y

    Outbound Product managers also have foundational product management skills, technical expertise, and a focus on product success like traditional Product managers. However, the best outbound PMs are continuous learners who are good communicators, customer-focused, and technically savvy. Ideally, I look for candidates who have meaningful product management experience, worked in the enterprise software space before, know the industry landscape, and have outstanding soft skills.

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