What's the one piece of advice you would give to someone starting in a VP of Product role for the first time?
6 Answers
Adobe Director, Product Management • 1mo
Listen before you lead or change. Resist the latter till the insights are developed. So, spending 30-60 days in listening mode: with customers, your team, engineering, de...
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Barracuda Networks Sr. Director, Product Management • 1y
Start by listening obsessively and aligning relentlessly.It’s tempting to jump into “fixing mode”—new VPs often feel pressure to prove their value fast. But the real supe...
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AlphaSense SVP, Product and Design • 1y
Find a way to ship new things quickly. Don't get too distracted by trying to address or fix everything at once - product processes, heavyweight discovery or roadmapping a...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
One piece of advice: Understand your product, organization, and company and what each of these needs to succeed. Then do that thing (at your appropriate job scope: produc...
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Level AI VP of Product • 1y
First of all, congratulations on your new role! I am sure there will be no dearth of problems to solve here:) But if there is one advice I can share -that would be to mak...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 4y
I think this depends on whether you've been a people manager (e.g at the Director or Head level) previously. If you're a fist time people manager, it can be a challengi...
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