Establishing Product Management
JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 3y
When interviewing potential product managers, my goal is to assess their skills and abilities to determine their potential for success on the team. I also consider the kn...
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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?
Splunk Director of Product Management • 5mo
I evaluate the performance of the product team—IC PMs, GPMs, and product leads—across five core dimensions: customer satisfaction, quality of deliverables, clarity of str...
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Cloudflare Sr. Director of Product | Formerly Segment, WeWork, Airbnb • 4y
The great thing about being the first hire is something that is also great about Product Management: there is room for interpretation. My philosophy has always been more ...
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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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Netflix Director of Product • 3y
The good news is that you have an engineering team that is excited about the product & generating ideas. That’s huge. Over the long term, this will make your product ...
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Hex Head of Product | Formerly Fivetran • 1y
Retaining talent is not easy because there are so many options for great product people. I focus on the following and it has been fairly effective:
Challenging them to ...
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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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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 1y
In these situations, I hope you've aligned with leadership on the reasons for them to hire a PM (sometimes their first PM) before you join the team, whether that's as an ...
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PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 4y
The biggest surprise was how hard it was to convince others that Product Leads / Product Managers would be an asset to the team. This sentiment was more common among thos...
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strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management • 3y
Product teams that don't have strong collaboration and communication with the product marketing team fail to deliver a delightful customer experience. These siloed produc...
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PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 4y
The product organization at WooCommerce is organized by merchant needs:
Start: Merchant onboarding, from the moment they click the CTA on WooCommerce.com to when their s...
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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...
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Typeform Chief Product Officer • 2y
When looking at the landscape of product management across different scales of companies, it's evident that the core principles remain consistent: understand your users, ...
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Amplitude Vice President, Product Management • 3y
My # goal is to provide leverage around the strategy:
If we're having impact, accelerate and expand
If we're not having impact, get into that mode
ensure all work conne...
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Figma Product, AI • 2y
I think this starts with making sure that your design counterparts understand the business strategy and have deep empathy for the customers you're serving. Without those ...
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Typeform Chief Product Officer • 2y
Navigating a team where product discovery and delivery are split can be likened to steering a ship where the mapmakers and sailors operate in silos. My aim would be to br...
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TikTok Head of Product, AI-powered Automated Services | Formerly Airbnb, Microsoft, Salesforce, Box • 4y
One challenge I encountered as the product lead for a platform team was to identify the product management needs for some of the relatively technical product areas, such ...
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PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 4y
To me, the first 90 days are all about communication with your new team and cross-functional partners – even more so if you're setting up the Product Management function ...
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Amplitude Vice President, Product Management • 3y
There are obviously a bunch of goal setting / tracking frameworks that are designed to do this (for example OKRs) but I tend to start with where and why any misalignment ...
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TikTok Head of Product, AI-powered Automated Services | Formerly Airbnb, Microsoft, Salesforce, Box • 4y
Resource constraints are a very common challenge for any team and company that I’ve worked for. I tend to focus on business priorities and how the identified product area...
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