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What's your process for figuring out what metrics to hold product management accountable for?

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What are good OKRs for product management?

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How should product split feature adoption KPIs with the product marketing team?

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

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How do you break down responsibilities and KPIs for product launches between product management and marketing?

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How do you define and set SLAs with engineers?

I'm currently struggling to define checkout error rates for our e-commerce platform. We're currently at 1.5%. Personally, I think it's too high. However, I have nothing to substantiate my opinion.

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How to make sure KPIs are not 'proxies' to what we want to achieve but directly measure it?

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how do you think about measuring business impact when your products aren't directly monetized?

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How do you foster a culture where both product people and engineers feel a sense of accountability to delivering features, without focusing on the negative if we do not deliver?

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What is a good product manager to engineer ratio to maintain as you scale?

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What is the most effective way to scale a Product Management team beyond the first Product Manager?

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What is an important KPI that you see product teams completely missing?

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Question about org structures - what does your PM team org structure look like?

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Is there overlap between PMs and the User Research function when PMs should know their users firsthand? How do you build teams with the right target ratio or support from User Research and to some extent Data Scientists/Analysts as well? Do those functions support individual teams or executives trying to understand broader trends?

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Should CX teams and Product Management teams be on the same team? Pros/Cons?

I've worked with a few CX leaders who now have product managers reporting to them. Curious to know the benefits/risks of having them combined.

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How do you start a product management team from scratch if you are the first PM hire expected to build and grow the team?

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How do you communicate product management updates and activities to the rest of the company?

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How do you approach building a well rounded product team?

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How do you build a team that can both handle day to day customer issues and keep time for innovation/discovery?

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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 is your advice for creating and/or improving the product management process when joining a small but growing team? Particularly for a small company with no or little structure?

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What is the single most important activity you prioritize as a product leader? Why do you prioritize this activity above all else?

- How might this shift according to company maturity and the maturity of the product you're working on? - For IC PMs, what is the single most important activity that you'd recommend they prioritize? How might this shift according to company maturity and the maturity of the product you're working on?

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What are some of the *worst* KPIs for Product Managers to commit to achieving?

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While working on large and complex projects, how to effectively manage between speed of delivery vs managing and aligning a large number of stakeholders?

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What are some key skill sets for a product manager?

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How do you convey the importance of product management to engineering leaders who have never worked with product managers?

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If your PM team has only one or two people responsible for covering multiple products with complex features, how would you recommend dividing the workload in the short-term so as best to support long-term growth and expansion of the team?

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

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How are KPIs changing now that CEOs expect more accountability and measurable impact from product teams?

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How does product management differ between a small and large company?

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How do you think about your first 30/60/90 day goals when coming in as the Head of Product Management in a startup that didn't have product management before?

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How do you make design more strategic so they are not just making what engineers build look good, but are more involve up front in the product development process?

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Our engineering team has been building features based on ideas, and I’m the first PM. How do I change the culture and help them buy into being customer focused?

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As a product manager, what are the make-or-break things for you when interviewing a potential next product manager for your team?

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If you were inheriting a team where the company had split product discovery from delivery (PM's look after discovery and a Delivery manager looks after delivery) what actions would you take? What if you couldn't change the structure?

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Do you have any advice for a junior PM who is a first product management hire?

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What's your framework to prioritizing needs/deliverables when you're the first Product Manager at a company establishing the function?

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Setting KPIs can often feel arbitrary, especially when entering new markets. How do you get past this uncertainty to set realistic goals?

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How do you coordinate and work cross functionally with the product marketing team to create commonly shared KPIs?

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I'm working at a start-up, and a first PM hire; what KPIs should I own and not own?

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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?

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What are the key processes you'd set up when expanding the PM team from 1 to multiple people?

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how do you work with engineering manager / design / engineers? is it different when focused on developer audience?

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If you were starting out in a rapidly growing company would you start by embedding some best practice and then start to build out a team or start by building a small but mighty team and tackle it as a group?

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When is it appropriate or feasible to have multiple Product Managers at different levels (PM, SPM, PPM) within a team/squad, without altering the size of the engineering team?

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How do you think about shared KPI’s with your engineering team? And what are ones that product teams often miss?

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How do you effectively split your attention between contributing individually and coaching your PM's? Do these two priorities ever conflict with each other?