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What's the one piece of advice you would give to someone starting in a VP of Product role for the first time?

Charat Maheshwari
Adobe Director, Product Management1mo
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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Sheila Hara
Barracuda Networks Sr. Director, Product Management1y
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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Margaret (MJ) Jastrebski
AlphaSense SVP, Product and Design1y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Sirisha Machiraju
Level AI VP of Product1y
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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Mike Flouton
Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust4y
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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