Product Management
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Product Development
BILL Director Product Management • 1mo
Yes, PMF can absolutely be the goal early on. And in our experience, forcing a precise north star metric before you have real usage data often leads to optimizing for the...
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Head of Product, VP • 3y
When setting up any new line of business, revenue projection is an important step to understand the expected outcomes and viability of the business. For new a new product...
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Carta VP Product, Upmarket & Private Equity • 2y
Ask your leadership/marketing team what gives them anxiety and then attack those points as part of your 1st launch. For e.g. if they are worried about bad PR then ask the...
685 Views
Atlassian Head of Product, Jira Product Discovery • 1y
The following stand out to me for what I've witnessed:The team is acting like the product they're creating is going to be successful. I'm amazed at how many successful co...
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PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 1y
My assumption when reading this question is that you're being asked for "an AI roadmap" or to more quickly ship customer experiences "with AI". If I got that right, welco...
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Matterport VP of Product • 1y
Embrace prototyping. Especially for a 0 to 1 offering, asking customer and market feedback is hard because they have to envision the problem, your solution and on top of ...
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How do you get inspiration for product design when it comes to designing a new product?
After gathering all the requirements and having great insights into users pinpoints, studied competitors, and market trends, How do you then get the inspiration for design layout before talking to your designer to translate all of this into an intuitive user experience
Nuvemshop Director, Product Growth | Formerly Superhuman, RD Station, IBM, Bosch • 11mo
Designing a new product is so cool, but also daunting cause it's just a... blank... canvas.Understand the user’s world: I believe inspiration begins with empathy. Try to ...
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BILL Director Product Management • 1mo
Honestly, don't overthink it. The best prototype is the one you can put in front of a user the fastest.At BILL, we default to Figma. It's fast, collaborative, and design ...
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How do you go about brainstorming the right solutions in terms of coming up with user experience to address the validated problems to be solved for users
How and where do you get inspiration to determine how and what types of user experience to be built and fleshing this our in your user stories while writing PRD
DocuSign Director of Product Management • 3y
When thinking about Solutions, think they can come from anywhere - From you, from customers, from cross-functional peers, from industry, competitors, or from your everyda...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 6mo
We run beta and early access (EA) programs as structured, time-bound experiments designed to validate new functionality before general availability. Each program follows ...
441 Views
Intuit Director of Product Management • 6mo
Your feedback loop is an important part of the entire product development life cycle, not just post-launch. I encourage my teams to build the muscle to continually gather...
428 Views
Product Management Leader • 6mo
At Atlassian, assessing which problems to tackle is a deeply cross-craft and strategic process.When we propose a new strategy or explore a meaty new problem space, it typ...
1046 Views
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 11mo
Engineering needs clear context on why a problem matters - its root cause and its business impact. The timing of their involvement depends on their availability and the p...
510 Views
Cisco Director of Product Management • 6mo
AI has shifted how we approach roadmap planning, primarily by accelerating our ability to process and synthesize information at scale.For me, the ability to work through ...
379 Views
GitLab Group Product Manager • 6mo
That’s a great question. I’ve seen a lot of people and companies building AI features simply to have AI features and say they are “AI powered”. That’s a losing strategy. ...
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Senior Director of Product | Strategic Planning, Mentoring | Formerly The Knot Worldwide, Trello (Atlassian) • 6mo
This is a common misstep for everyone, PMs included. I’ve certainly been led astray by assuming I know what users want. It’s important to have empathy for users, but not ...
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Former BILL Director, Product Management - Payments • 6mo
I triage scope changes based on impact: does the new info affect MVP success, expose a missed requirement, or can it wait post-launch? If it’s critical, I evaluate timeli...
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Is there a framework that you use to decide whether a problem, feature or project is best suited for AI?
How do you go about operationalizing this framework in terms of aligning stakeholders, gathering data, developing feature requirements and so on?
Google Group Product Manager, Android • 2mo
Less of a framework, more of a question -- are the product needs aligned with what AI is fundamentally good at?LLMs are phenomenal at language, phenomenal at coding, exce...
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Former BILL Director, Product Management - Payments • 6mo
The biggest misconception is believing AI will do everything for you- define the MVP, decide what to build, and evaluate itself. It won’t. You still need clear requiremen...
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Flexera Chief Product Officer | Formerly Rackspace, Dell • 6mo
Deciding between build, buy, and partner is a regular conversation at Flexera. Here is how we work it through:Build: Capabilities that are core to our business and that w...
1101 Views
Splunk Director of Product Management • 6mo
The strategy really depends on where you are in the journey. Competing with established players looks very different for a startup versus a scaled company.For startups, i...
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Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
If you haven’t already, it’s helpful to start with the context of the question: “How do you define a mature product?”For mature products, analytics play a key role in opt...
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JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 2mo
First, I spend time understanding the personas who are already using the product. The goal is to make sure they are still capturing value and that their workflows have no...
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Workiva Vice President Of Product Management • 3y
I would define a mature product as one that has reached product market fit, is feature rich and integrated with an ecosystem and is stable, secure, performant in terms of...
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ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 6mo
I've run into the same three challenges in managing mature products: managing a large feature set, tech limitations, and migrating users or data.
Mature products accumula...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 1y
Mature products are used by customers across the spectrum from large enterprise customers to startups. Metrics can change based on state of business but in general I woul...
445 Views
Head of Product, VP • 2y
There are multiple definitions out there for "mature products", but it ultimately depends on the product and business leaders in a company to define that as they know the...
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Workiva Vice President Of Product Management • 3y
If you are an outcome driven product team (which I hope you are), I think this should be defined as the change in behavior you expect to see/create for users of your new ...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 1y
Stakeholders for mature products are typically large customers, experienced field teams (sales, engineering, support in B2B), and long-term product team members.Managing ...
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Contentful VP, Product Management | Formerly Twilio, SendGrid • 3y
I've found it helpful to craft a ~3-year product strategy that articulates the market and trends, the challenges/opportunities, and the product's path forward with cohere...
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Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
See question “What methodologies do you employ to optimize mature products for performance, cost, and efficiency?”
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Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
If you haven’t already, it’s helpful to start with the context in “How do you define a mature product?”I’ve touched on optimization in “How do you know when a new feature...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 1y
Tech debt becomes a looming issue in every quarterly planning. It manifests itself in many ways, such as:Rising customer escalations due to new code causing regression is...
429 Views
Google Group Product Manager • 6mo
With GenAI, user feedback comes in the traditional forms as well as Thumbs up, Thumbs downQuery edit and retries. Users are prompt engineering constantly. The perception ...
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GitLab Group Product Manager • 6mo
In my experience, the shape of the team is more or less the same as a traditional product team. All of the same functions need to be accounted for. There are a few additi...
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Google Group Product Manager • 6mo
The rule of thumb is that User Safety and Privacy trump everything else. This is further accentuated in Enterprise usecases.Reliability is important but you may argue tha...
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Former BILL Director, Product Management - Payments • 6mo
I use a simple filter: if the problem is deterministic, rules-based, and predictable, traditional software is better. AI shines when there’s lots of data, high variabilit...
547 Views
Superhuman Head of Product, Enterprise • 7mo
There are a few well known techniques that can help adapt product development in the world of ML/AI featuresEvals: Evals are essentially data sets that represent your key...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 6mo
A structured way to estimate effort and manage uncertainty is through the 3C Framework – Clarity, Calibration, and Control. It helps balance speed with confidence in deli...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 6mo
My role isn’t to dictate features but to provide the strategic context, air cover, and cross-functional alignment the team needs to make confident decisions that drive th...
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How do you measure the performance of the product team, considering only product managers, group product managers and product head?
Some companies go through challenges such as excessive bugs, refactoring, in many cases we have the company pursuing the delivery of short-term projects and sometimes the product team is the driver.
Do you believe it is possible to demand performance from a product team based on individual delivery?
Gainsight Director, Product Management • 2y
An ideal Product team would be the one which is aligned and transparent to larger organisation in terms of where they are, where they are going and how they plan to go th...
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Eventbrite Senior Director of Product • 2y
Collaboration between product development, engineering, design, and other teams is crucial for successful product outcomes. When working with an engineering manager, desi...
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Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte • 6mo
I'm a big fan of quarterly planning. But I absolutely HATE overly complicated, unnecessarily long planning of any kind. I like the kind of planning that provides clarity,...
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Former BILL Director, Product Management - Payments • 6mo
Yes, Product Ops is critical, especially in FinTech where money movement is involved. I like to involve them end-to-end: pre-launch for requirements and operational risks...
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HubSpot Group Product Manager, CRM Platform • 2y
When you lack resourcing whether it's engineering, design, or even product, it's critical to practice ruthless prioritization and managing expectations. Realistically the...
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Senior Director of Product | Strategic Planning, Mentoring | Formerly The Knot Worldwide, Trello (Atlassian) • 6mo
Every PM dreams of a steady, sustainable flow of work that leads to great outcomes. The tricky part is finding that “sustainable pace.” On one end of the spectrum, you ha...
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Samsara Vice President of Product Management - Safety • 4y
The first question I would ask is whether PM and engineering have aligned upfront on a mutually agreed-upon definition of the problem to be solved and the definition of ...
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Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte • 6mo
We use a two-stage review process that separates "are we solving the right problem?" from "are we solving the problem right?" This ensures engineering understands not jus...
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How are PMs that worked on products across multiple industries perceived while evaluating for a PM role in a new/different industry? How can they sell themselves better? Wouldn't the outside perspective bring fresh external breath to the existing product ecosystem? Learning from the best practices in other industries can help immensely, isn't it? Your thoughts?
E.g. A PM with experience working on products across industries like Telecom, CGR, BFS, Insurance etc applying for a PM role in a product company that is in healthcare space. How can they sell themselves?
Product Management Leader • 6mo
Experience across multiple industries is a real strength for a PM. It shows adaptability, curiosity, and the ability to learn fast, all essential traits for product leade...
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Product Management Leader • 6mo
I do not expect PMs to be analysts, but I do expect them to be data fluent. They should be able to self-serve, interpret results, and use data to make confident product d...
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