Product Management
Product Management Team
Product Management Team
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
Salesforce Director of Product Management, Tableau Next • 10mo
Even before visuals, clarify what experience needs to exist for the user to succeed.Write a “day in the life” narrative for your user, showing how they’ll use your produc...
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 1y
It's easy for teams to over-index on day to day customer issues and lose sight of innovation; the opposite is unlikely. If your team has customer focus figured out (if no...
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Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • 2y
Here are the top things I would look for in a product manager on my team:Customer-Centric: understanding and serving the needs of the customers/users possibly via user in...
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform • 1mo
You show impact, not theory. Engineers will value you if you do that.For example:Better onboarding → higher activation → real revenue impactCleaner API design → fewer sup...
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JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 4mo
When I want to avoid proxy KPIs and measure the real thing, I do three simple things:1. Start with a plain-language outcomeBefore thinking about numbers, I write one clea...
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JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 4mo
When I think about good OKRs for product management, I start from one principle:they should describe business outcomes created for customers, not project completion.So in...
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Shopify Director of Product • 3y
Let's cover this in two ways: (1) how to think about KPIs, (2) examples of poor ones and how they can be better. I'll also approach the question a little more broadly tha...
8371 Views
Gainsight Director, Product Management • 2y
Defining the right KPIs is quite risky. There are few steps we can follow that can help define the right KPIsFollow these steps when defining a KPI:What is your desired ...
369 Views
Twilio Staff Product Manager, SDKs and Libraries • 4y
Developer Audience - now we are talking! As someone who worked as an engineer using SDKs, then building SDKs, and then moved into Product Management, I have a lot of opin...
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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?
GitLab Group Product Manager • 5mo
Personally, I don’t measure PM performance by individual feature delivery. That’s not the PM’s job. Tying a PM’s performance and value to delivery creates all the wrong i...
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BILL Director Product Management • 7mo
I work closely with engineering managers, designers, and engineers as a core triad, each of us brings a different lens: PMs focus on the why and what, design on the user ...
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Oracle Director of Product Management • 6mo
An easy one is taking meeting notes and having GenAI generate it. I've also had some success getting various emails and notes formatted for executive reporting.A good tim...
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Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
See question: “What are good OKRs for product management?” for a general introduction to the topic.
Congratulations, that feels like an amazing experience to get through...
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BILL VP of Product, Product Platform • 1y
This can sometimes seem like an impossible task - but there are some core change management principles we use at BILL that you can use to help people get excited about th...
626 Views
Flexera Chief Product Officer | Formerly Rackspace, Dell • 3y
Oftentimes, I find that Product Management teams are focused on getting the product to market that they forget that their #1 job is building a business. As a business lea...
587 Views
Gainsight Director, Product Management • 2y
Once we choose a team that defines the path to the success of the team - its important to identofy metrics by groups of Financial KPIs, Product KPIs and Customer Satisfac...
395 Views
Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • 4y
Just like Shared KPI's between Engineering and Product Management, a similar shared KPI framework between Product Management and Marketing is a great way to build high ...
1055 Views
Infoblox SVP Product Management, Networking • 6mo
Product management owns the what and why, defining the feature set, prioritization, and fundamental value proposition. Product marketing owns the how and to whom, specify...
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TikTok Head of Product, AI-powered Automated Services | Formerly Airbnb, Microsoft, Salesforce, Box • 6mo
Absolutely. I like to think about AI’s role in KPI tracking and forecasting across three dimensions:
1. What is happening:AI monitors real-time product and business data ...
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Flexera Chief Product Officer | Formerly Rackspace, Dell • 3y
Product goals are generally arbitrary when entering new markets. The reason for this is that there is a lot of uncertainty when entering a new market. You don't know what...
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Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon • 4y
I'd love to learn more about what you mean by this. In reality they shouldn't change, your customers would just be internal that's all. You could still measure activation...
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Matterport VP of Product • 2y
There may be a number of reasons why your product does not involve monetization. Whatever the reason maybe, it is still important to have a definition for ‘success’. For ...
525 Views
Superhuman Head of Product, Enterprise • 4y
I'd suggest dont split the KPIs. Here is why
Product Management and Product Marketing are two different ways to accomplish the same outcomes. The difference is one is in...
751 Views
Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • 4y
Congratulations to you! There are a lot of ways you can pave the path for KPI's at your company as the first hire
The KPI's should be directly based on the business outc...
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Lead Product Manager and GTM Specialist | Formerly Mailchimp - Caspian - Zeda.io • 1y
There are a few things I can use here to get things less surprising and more efficient. First off, you need to streamline decision-making. The RACI matrix is useful here ...
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What would be your advice or go to resources for a PM to build one critical thinking skills?
What would be your advice or go-to resources for a PM to build critical thinking skills?
HubSpot Director of Product Strategy | Marketing Hub, Content Hub • 7mo
Critical thinking is one of the most underrated PM skills. It’s what helps you separate noise from signal, ask the right questions, and make trade-offs with confidence. H...
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Carta VP Product, Upmarket & Private Equity • 3y
The framework doesn't change whether you are the first PM or the 100th PM IMO. Understand what business goals need to be achieved (which will most likely be be set top do...
188 Views
Amplitude Vice President, Product Management • 3y
This does happen, and it's usually the result of a communication / execution dysfunction. To start with, no salesperson wakes up and says let me go around and undermine t...
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When there’s a lot of top-down direction and competing priorities, how do you cut through the noise to advocate for what you believe is the most impactful opportunity?
How do you balance staying aligned with leadership while still driving conviction in your point of view?
Adobe Senior Director of Product Management & Growth (Creative Cloud) • 9mo
Data is at the heart of every negotiation.
First, deeply understand what levers drive your specific business and where the biggest problem areas. For example, do you hav...
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PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 4y
One way to get Engineering excited about customer focus is to invite them to listen in on interviews. We post all customer interviews on a shared calendar and use webinar...
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PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 3y
I’ve worked in Product across two very different contexts – a company that favored complete alignment versus a company where autonomy was part of their cultural DNA.
Wh...
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With the tech industry increasingly shifting toward AI-driven products and experiences, how do you see the role of growth product managers evolving?
What new skills, mindsets, or areas of ownership do you think will define success for growth PMs in this new landscape?
Adobe Senior Director of Product Management & Growth (Creative Cloud) • 9mo
Product Growth has always used AI to some extent - we have always leveraged various types of models like propensity models for revenue optimization, predictive models to ...
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Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category • 1y
Product Management is not about structure or process, it's about the mindset.I would hence spend all my time on ensuring the company and team has the right mindset:we are...
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Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category • 1y
The biggest surprise is usually not understanding the true role of product management. It is often confused with "project management", or focusing just on the delivery as...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management • 2y
A seamless way to created Shared KPIs would be to blend and work together on building features. While defining say a PRD, work with Product Marketing team to create a 1 ...
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Amplitude Vice President, Product Management • 3y
Ideally, you have "vertical" product teams whose charter is shipping end-user-facing features around a particular problem / persona. You may also have "horizontal" produc...
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Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category • 1y
The most important aspect is that successful products are built by teams cooperating together to find the best solution that works for customers and market.As part of thi...
651 Views
IBM Product Management • 3y
I am a firm believer that what you need to grow and what you need to scale are two different things - including leadership, team processes, and strategy. This means that ...
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Matterport VP of Product • 1y
It's better to have a small team of highly skilled and motivated PMs who align with company values and help meet company goals. Especially in an early-stage company, wher...
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Cloudflare Sr. Director of Product | Formerly Segment, WeWork, Airbnb • 4y
As I mentioned in another answer, lean on those around you; there is a wealth of knowledge to be amassed from stakeholders and peers that have likely interacted with the ...
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Volley VP of Product • 2y
PM to engineer ratios can range wildly from 1 PM to every 2-3 engineers to something 1 PM to 15 engineers. This largely depends on the size of the company and the type of...
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Noname Security Director of Product Management • 3y
As a manager for a team of PMs', splitting your attention between contributing individually and coaching your product managers can be a challenging task. However, it is i...
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How do you approach setting crisp KPIs and targets for Engine features and linking them to your topline metrics? Do you directly try to assess visual quality and performance budget?
Game and Engine Features often have success targets that are complex to define, such as visual quality or runtime performance targets (eg. ms budget). These KPIs + targets can also be challenging to link to company topline metrics such as revenue.
Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
To build up the best Objectives and Key Results, I usually ask the Product teams to follow a yearly schedule of strategic planning (aligned on fiscal year, ideally also a...
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Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
See question: “What are good OKRs for product management?” for a general introduction to the topic.
I think the metric cost falls naturally into making a solid business ...
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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.
Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
See question: “What are good OKRs for product management?” for a general introduction to the topic.
See question: “How do you approach setting crisp KPIs and targets for ...
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 1y
I typically use a multi-tiered reporting approach:Weekly: Brief updates to immediate team and key stakeholdersFormat: Short email or Slack updateContent: High-level progr...
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Pendo Chief Product Officer • 1y
It is important to focus on outcomes, not only shipping features. We can deliver features and not deliver outcomes, so in terms of KPIs, I tend to focus on ARR, or beta s...
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Senior Director of Product | Strategic Planning, Mentoring | Formerly The Knot Worldwide, Trello (Atlassian) • 4y
I have been a part of small teams, large teams, a PM consultant and an entrepreneur. I have yet to scale a PM team beyond the first PM but here are the things I would con...
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GitLab Director of Product Management • 2y
GitLab is quite transparent, so you can find our structure defined pretty publicly here. We have the overall product that we divide into sections, stages, groups and cate...
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Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category • 1y
There is definitely an overlap between User Research and PM, and I think it depends on the size of the company and organization also. If you have the chance to get a grea...
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