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How do you approach building successful partnerships across multiple functions?

Rishabh Dave

Stripe Product Lead, Financial Infrastructure • 3y

Product Management is centered around people and the effectiveness of a PM in cultivating relationships with others directly impacts the quality of the product. Some of t...

726 Views

Who are your primary stakeholders?

Aindra Misra

BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X • 9mo

Here is the list of primary stakeholders:Customers - Software engineersLeadership - Eng leads across the companyDevEx engineering teamFocussed engineering leadership who ...

516 Views

As a Developer Product Manager, what is your role within a larger team?

Deepak Mukunthu

Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform • 3mo

I see my role as translating between three worlds: developers (users), engineering (builders), and the business.For developer products, that translation is more technical...

512 Views

What do you think junior PMs struggle with the most in regards to working with executives?

Neha Aggarwal

Commonwealth Financial Network VP, Product Management | Formerly Amazon Web Services • 7mo

Junior PMs struggle the most with communicating the context in the right size and framing the "Why should you care about this?" for executives.A few things to remember ar...

180 Views

Have you leveraged Gen AI to communicate and report on things internally to stakeholders? What has been the most valuable artifact that AI has helped you create?

Matt Landry

Infoblox SVP Product Management, Networking • 8mo

I often use GenAI for aggregating diverse documents and synthesizing details into concise, coherent summaries. Critical caveat: GenAI often misses nuance that domain expe...

670 Views

How do you structure your Product team? How big is it, what does everyone do? How do you measure success of each function/person?

Guy Levit

Meta Sr. Director of Product Management • 4y

My current product team has about 40 PMs (And we are hiring!). I would not dive into what each of the team does, but maybe talk about how we went about structuring it, w...

19,135 Views

What are the top 3 things that will provide value to C-Suites as a product manager?

Sailaja Kalle

Gainsight Director, Product Management • 3y

Product managers who can become great product leaders have a keen vision of how to drive business outcomes to the next level. They can help drive revenue, accelerate thro...

523 Views

How do you walk the line of allowing other teams input into the roadmap without allowing them to dictate roadmap priorities?

Mike Flouton

Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 4y

My first principle when it comes to roadmaps is “transparency.” Being transparent about priorities, what’s being prioritized, what’s not being prioritized and WHY makes a...

1,067 Views

Different internal stakeholders require different fidelity of updates (e.g. your support team probably needs more granular details than the CEO) about product updates. Any protips/tools/suggestions for the best way to handle this?

Derek Ferguson

GitLab Group Product Manager • 11mo

This is a constant challenge. Not only do they require different amounts of detail, different roles care about different things. The CEO wants to know what business impac...

930 Views

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?

Carrie Zhang

Square Product Lead • 2y

Can relate to this question! I definitely struggled with similar situations earlier in my career. Interestingly I got the solution from the executives I was working with ...

415 Views

Product Managers often get pulled in several directions and everything feels urgent. How do we work with our Exec team to help narrow down what we focus on?

Natalia Baryshnikova

Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 3y

You need to educate the execs on those several directions. Often, folks assume that execs know (or remember) about those different directions. Be very clear and keep an ...

1,360 Views

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?

Advaita Nigudkar

BILL Director Product Management • 11mo

It really depends on the nature of the project and the teams involved — but a few foundational cross-functional rhythms have worked well for me.Managing cross - with your...

2,848 Views

How do you go about resolving conflict between team members?

Lane Shackleton

Coda Chief Product Officer • 4y

I think it’s important to let team members resolve conflict between themselves whenever possible. If you’re seen as the ‘fixer’ for all conflicts on a team, it puts you i...

839 Views

Due dates for projects can be a moving target - especially bigger projects that are farther out. How do you think about communicating what's on the roadmap while always managing expectations with sales/support about when they'll actually ship?

JJ Miclat

Zendesk Director of Product Management • 1y

Always put a buffer on what things will shipBe ruthless in regards to prioritization. Ship features/products that provide enough value to customers where they’ll try it, ...

460 Views

How does your company define the difference between Product Management and Product Marketing teams? How do the responsibilities differ?

Sourav Debnath

Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal • 1y

Product Management is the craft of - identifying and defining the underlying customer problems (User Research) deciding what problems to solve to create the targeted va...

3,753 Views

What do you think is the source of most disagreements between stakeholders, and how do you go about finding alignment?

Yasmin Kothari

Peloton Senior Director of Product Management • 2y

Disagreements among stakeholders typically stem from three key factors: Differing underlying goals - Each stakeholder is optimizing for their primary goal and if these g...

1,887 Views

What do think about product intuition for PMs? How to get this soft skill?

Sourav Debnath

Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal • 1y

Product intuition is a sixth sense about what the real problem is, what could be the value created and what should a solution feel like. It's a mix of nature and experien...

468 Views

What is your answer to, "What Is Product Management?"

Sourav Debnath

Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal • 1y

Product Management is the craft of - identifying and defining the underlying customer problems (User Research) deciding what problems to solve to create the targeted val...

805 Views

What do your interactions with the C-Suite look like on a regular basis?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • 4y

I interact with c-suite in my current role across a variety of forums - 1:1 meetings, business reviews, off-sites, brainstorming and problem solving forums etc. In my 1:...

1,183 Views

What is the best cadence for gathering stakeholder feedback in preparation for a launch?

Omar Eduardo Fernández

GitLab Director of Product Management • 3y

Depends on the stakeholders' seniority and role in the initiative, but here's a few guidelines that I use, which I outline below. However, one important GitLab cultural p...

695 Views

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

Sourav Debnath

Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal • 1y

Building products are all about identifying and solving problems for your users. In short it's all about answering the Why, Who, What and How. I 'll explain the key drive...

1,650 Views

When was the last time you had a conversation with someone you disagreed with and chose to listen to their point of view?

Aindra Misra

BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X • 1y

It was with my engineering counterpart. That individual was very focussed on execution and short term milestones and was pushing his thought process in the team, instead ...

561 Views

How do you align stakeholders in a remote working environment?

Yasmin Kothari

Peloton Senior Director of Product Management • 2y

As many of us now know, aligning stakeholders in a remote working environment presents unique challenges. To foster alignment, consider the following strategies: Agree o...

1,243 Views

What guidance can you share around communicating effectively with stakeholders, once you've determined you will not be including their product request into your roadmap?

Tarrah Alexis

Unity Senior Director of Product, Unity Game Engine | Formerly Microsoft, Xbox • 1y

I hate having to say "not now" to customers, so here's what I normally do:Lead with the “yes”: I start by highlighting what is coming, especially if there’s something tha...

1,245 Views

How do product key stakeholders from other departments change as your company grows?

Linh Lam

Lattice Group Product Manager • 4y

I find that the list of stakeholders tends to be roughly the same across company size, with the key difference being how many "support" functions you can rely on as a PM....

1,223 Views

How do you build better relationships with product marketing? I feel like this is the most complicated relationship out of all cross-functional partners. How do you constantly stay aligned?

Kara Gillis

Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte • 2y

TLDR: Stay aligned by clearly defining your roles and responsibilities. There are published RACI models on the role of PMM. Align on a RACI and stick to it. Then establis...

407 Views

What are your key objectives and questions when meeting a new stakeholder, either with them or yourself as a new hire?

Leo Sadeq

Lead Product Manager and GTM Specialist | Formerly Mailchimp - Caspian - Zeda.io • 1y

There is no right answer to this. But there is a good way to at least have a basic idea that will inform the next stage of the interaction. What matters to me, is who the...

218 Views

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.

Rishabh Dave

Stripe Product Lead, Financial Infrastructure • 3y

Vision -> Ownership -> Clear expectations -> Progress -> Feedback It is very common for PM’s to lead initiatives where the members in the working group don’t ...

983 Views

How do you approach getting approval for your roadmap from internal stakeholders?

Clara Lee

PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 2y

The path to gaining product roadmap approval depends on the decision-making culture of the company:If you are in a place where approval rights are clear, the key is under...

479 Views

How to go about influencing people across different functions and teams?

Casey Flinn

OEC Head of Global Product Operations • 3y

It's often overlooked, but I believe it all starts with being genuinely interested in other people's perspectives. The more diversity you can include in your thought pro...

522 Views

What are the most important sources of customer feedback for you to prioritize your roadmap?

Aleks Bass

Typeform Chief Product Officer • 3y

The following sources of feedback are very important to me and my team: Customers our PM team is directly in contact with, as well as our direct digital feedback channe...

1,321 Views

How do you work towards win/win situations with stakeholders who's top-line goals are inversely correlated to your top line goals?

Devika Nair

Oracle Director of Product Management • 3y

1) See if its truly inversely correlated in all dimensions. It is likely there are some dimensions (e.g., customer hapiness) on which you have similar objectives. 2) See ...

295 Views

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"?

Tara Wellington

BILL VP of Product, Product Platform • 2y

There are lots of frameworks, templates, and communication channels you can use to create ongoing communication about past launches. I usually find the biggest issue with...

1,358 Views

How do you measure your own success in your role? How much have those performance indicators evolved as you grew within your role?

Marc Abraham

Intercom Senior Group Product Manager • 4y

I measure the success in my role based on the measurable value that my team and I deliver to customers, which in turns translates into business results. Example metrics a...

1,336 Views

What soft skills are must-haves for product managers in your experience?

Marc Abraham

Intercom Senior Group Product Manager • 4y

Curiosity - Product Managers need to be curious. Good PMs will always want to know 'why' or explore the problem a customer is facing. Being open to alternative solutions...

1,236 Views

Do you approach stakeholder management differently based on the team you're talking to? (Design, Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success). And if so, how?

Karabi Bharadwaj

Microsoft Program Delivery Manager • 3y

The answer is Yes. We do not expect every stakeholder will have same questions, similar stakes, similar mindset and same requirements hence management will be different w...

385 Views

What are some tried and true strategies to drive alignment cross-functionally for a remote team?

Julian Dunn

Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 3y

First, get good at written communications -- both as a writer and a reader. One of the most impactful lessons that I took away from the Amazon Working Backwards book by B...

631 Views

What are some of the best ways to begin becoming a more influential Product Manager?

Linh Lam

Lattice Group Product Manager • 4y

Influence is interesting because it's very much a function of if others are willing to accept your influence. Here are some things I'd recommend doing to get started, but...

1,210 Views

Earlier in your career, how did you work with the C-Suite?

Sailaja Kalle

Gainsight Director, Product Management • 3y

Being a subject matter expert and having empathy for customers helped me become a strong voice of customers. This allowed me to stay close to C-Suite. I learned how to un...

508 Views

When did you decide to move from IC to Management? How was the transition and how did you prepare for it?

Devika Nair

Oracle Director of Product Management • 4y

I would not say I had a single point where I made this decision. I had the opportunity to lead a few PMs which I initially picked. I transitioned back to IC from this rol...

1,628 Views

As a product manager, how to establish credibility and trust in people around you?

Linh Lam

Lattice Group Product Manager • 4y

I'm assuming you mean how do you get other people to trust you and believe you are credible? Here's my list! (Can people tell I think in bullets?) Care. It sounds dumb,...

1,828 Views

How do you drive culture change with market research?

Linh Lam

Lattice Group Product Manager • 4y

Do you mean in terms of getting people to buy in to market research as a valuable practice in the company? Or in terms of using learnings from market research to drive cu...

1,056 Views

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