What is the most effective way to scale a Product Management team beyond the first Product Manager?
Cloudflare Sr. Director of Product | Formerly Segment, WeWork, Airbnb • 4y
This is a situation that our team went through last year, scaling from 2 PMs to 10 over 12 months. Before hiring any additional PMs, we first took the time to survey the ...
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Optimizely Chief Product Officer • 4y
The simple answer is to hire PMs :) . That said, I'm assuming you are asking more of how to structure the team to scale to the needs of the organization as you hire Def...
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Senior Director of Product | Strategic Planning, Mentoring | Formerly The Knot Worldwide, Trello (Atlassian) • 4y
I have been a part of small teams, large teams, a PM consultant and an entrepreneur. I have yet to scale a PM team beyond the first PM but here are the things I would con...
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Figma Director of Product • 3y
Contrary to popular belief, it's not about writing a job description as fast as possible and starting to hire! It's important to spend some time upfront thinking about th...
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Google Group Product Manager • 3y
I'm not sure it is the most effective because I've really only used one strategy, but it has been effective for me. Grow your own scope, take on more than you can handle...
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Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft • 4y
Building with intent is key. As a first PM or TPM, you are often running a one-person show. You wear multiple hats and you tend to be scrappy, flexing to what the busines...
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CookUnity VP Product & Design • 3y
The first PM hired into a company, or in a division of a company, will usually be an individual who can wear different hats on any given day. (see one of my favorite prod...
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Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category • 1y
Setting up the right culture is what matters the most, rather than the numbers of product managers.Product Management is a function, and you can find that other people in...
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Related Questions
You're the new Product Manager for a B2B SaaS company that has 40 people and is starting to scale. What should you aim to do in your first month and your first quarter?How do you approach building a well rounded product team?What is a good product manager to engineer ratio to maintain as you scale?What are the key processes you'd set up when expanding the PM team from 1 to multiple people?What is your advice for creating and/or improving the product management process when joining a small but growing team? Particularly for a small company with no or little structure?