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What's something that you didn't know it took to become a Director back when you were a senior product manager?

Something that you didn't know you would need to do that you only realized later.

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How do you think about staying within a company versus looking for opportunities outside? When do you know it's time to leave?

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What should you do if your Manager is not helping you grow and you see little growth opportunities? Should you stay at the job and try to learn as much as possible or should you definitely leave the company and look for a new opportunity?

How much time should you give a job and a manager to see if they are a fit in your growth and career?

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What are the biggest frustrations you have as a product manager?

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What has been the most surprising thing about being a Director that you only realized after you were promoted?

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I’m the first PM hire in my company. What advice would you give to someone tasked with establishing this function in an existing business structure?

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How would you change a product team/organization to be more KPI driven?

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How do you define the proper KPIs for your specific product and product team?

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One thing we've always struggled with ongoing communication about the success of previous launches. Do you have a framework for revisiting and communicating out things like "hey here's how that thing we launched 3, 6, 12 months ago is performing"?

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What are the key traits you look for in hiring enterprise PMs?

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Working on an enterprise product, how often do PMs get a chance to make a significant impact? (As opposed to work on small/specific features)

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How do you balance building for large potential customers before they buy vs having the sales team sell what you already have?

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Where can PM provide the most lift in the enterprise sales motion?

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What is your strategy for how much engineering resources you dedicate to custom work for large enterprise accounts vs core roadmap?

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How do you think about the differences between "enterprise" product management and SMB or mid-market?

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Have you encountered any challenges in terms of user understanding or acceptance of AI?

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What is the one thing you advice an AI PM to have? How should they differentiate themselves amongst other PMs?

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What is your framework on ways that generative AI can be integrated in your saas offering to make your product more valuable to customers?

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What generative AI use cases are you seeing getting the most customer traction?

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What emerging trends in AI and machine learning are you closely monitoring for potential integration into your product?

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How do you assess the impact of AI on overall product performance and user engagement?

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What strategies are you using for testing and validating the AI components of your product?

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How to get a first entry level job in the AI PM field? I have a strong software engineering background but I am interested in the AI PM role. How to make this career change?

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Who is better suited for an AI product management role compared to a traditional pm role?

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What do you find the most difficult in Platform Product Management?

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What’s the day in the life of a Platform Product Manager?

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How do you identify the highest impact projects on a platform team?

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Usually user feedback drives priorities. For platform is it development teams as user. Or really product end user? How does this all connected?

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From a platform perspective, how do you identify ICPs? Are you focused on a cluster or individual ICP?

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How do you align roadmaps for product managers on individual products with the broader platform?

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Have you received user feedback regarding the AI features, and how are you incorporating it into product improvements?

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What are the different types of AI Product Managers. Are we going to see a role that's similar to a Technical Product Manager focused towards the data science team?

My question is more to understand if a PM needs to understand the AI concepts to be a successful AI PM?

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How do you manage people who don't necessarily report to you? This could be while giving feedback on a piece of work? Or getting them to prioritize the project you're running.

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How do you ensure alignment when you have two senior executive stakeholders who disagree with each other on the proposed strategy and you are stuck in the middle?

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What kinds of ongoing, cross-functional meetings do you think are important to have? Which teams are involved, and what agenda items do you recommend?

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What's a good way to approach decisions that other teams feel they should own vs. Product feels they should own?

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As a hiring manager, what do the best product management candidates have in common?

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How do you retain good talent, especially when PM roles are in such high demand across the industry?

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What advice do you have for recent graduates that want to go straight into product management?

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Should product management decisions be data-driven or more so data-informed? Should Product Managers lead with intuition and use data to back up their assumptions?

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What are the top 3 most technical skills a Product Manager needs to have? How do you hone these skills and talk about them during interviews?

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How technical are you with any given solution you are working with the team on?

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How is your product team structured?

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What do product teams get wrong when trying to monetize open-source products that target developers?

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For API products, how do you push back against engineers who believe they know what to build because they "are" the target user?

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What trends and shifts is developer product management experiencing?

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How technical should one be if they are interested in being a Developer Product Manager?

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What role does your engineering team have in prioritizing the roadmap for a product targeting developers?

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How do you manage the 1000 questions and tasks that are shot at you when you are a PM in an early stage startup?

I'm the first PM in a startup that used to be sales led. I'm trying to set up the proper discovery processes, prioritization tactics and strategy, but I find that extremely hard to do as I'm getting carried away in the day-to-day tasks around requests, issues reported and project management.

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What is your favorite product management interview question and the best answer you've heard?

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