Poorvi Shrivastav

Senior Director of Product Management, Meta

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What are some of the lenses your look through or principles you apply when prioritizing a roadmap? How are they weighted relative to each other?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • October 25

I think there are a lot of frameworks when it comes to prioritization. At the end of the day, what is important for me is a combination of 1. prioritization 2. sequencing to arrive at a confident and well executed roadmap. Whatever be the framework, there are several signals to utilize 1.......Read More

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It’s impossible to get our exec team to focus on one segment. How do I balance prioritizing my roadmap while building for different segments?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • October 25

I think executives in all shape and form need guidance from domain experts. They are looking for product leaders to have confidence in their conviction and share the same confidence with executives. I usually form my opinions based on data and experience with the help of my team and then prese......Read More

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How do you manage a roadmap when company leadership cannot or will not provide guidance? (e.g. the C-team is all newly hired and don't know enough about the product or customers)

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • October 25

This is the best scenario in my opinion. Reason being, as a product leader you can both help define the future of your product as well as develop confidence and guide your leadership, which will help your career prospects as well. Again, having the confidence in your conviction and guiding lea......Read More

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When does it make sense to make your roadmap publically available, and what do you include (vs your internal roadmap)

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • October 25

I think public roadmaps make sense once you are post product market fit but it's important to remember to only lookout 6 months or so (with safe harbor for future usage/ purchasing statements). Once you are post GTM fit, then it makes sense to go further out to 12 months and provide dates for ......Read More

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How do you get autonomy for prioritizing your roadmap when your sales process is very sales heavy, and sales leadership wants to dictate priorities?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • October 25

Love this question and have witnessed this scenario often. I'd say try to establish a common framework with your sales leadership so noise doesn't misguide signal when it comes to prioritizing customer feedback. Maybe a feature gets priority if there are X number of smaller customers asking fo......Read More

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Which stakeholders have input into your roadmap, and how to balance giving them influence vs control?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • October 25

It varies. Mostly the stakeholders fall in four categories 1. Customers especially in B2B larger enterprise products (there is sometimes more control here) 2. Partners like engineering, design, data science etc. who provide feedback and help crystalize the sequencing of work 3. Se......Read More

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How do you determine how much of your roadmap should be focused on existing customers vs prospects?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • October 25

I think it depends on whether the product has a market fit or not. If it's pre market fit, then we'd want to lean towards prospects to ideally find a core group of sticky users. If it's post market fit, then you balance customers and prospects to both drive engagement and adoption.

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What advice do you have for new managers?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • April 20

1. Establish connections with your team - a mutual shared understanding of individual values and drivers is important to building a cohesive team. The first step towards that comes from building connections by getting to know more about your team members. 2. Be empathetic but also e......Read More

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What do product managers get wrong when trying to influence the C-Suite?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • April 20

A common mistake most product managers and sometimes even senior product leaders make while convincing c-suite in favor of a particular decision is bringing in tunnel vision related to just their own product area or business vertical. Spoken differently, they fail to treat company over their own ......Read More

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When establishing a new team, what’s your first 90 days plan?

Poorvi Shrivastav

Meta Senior Director of Product Management • April 20

1. First 60 days Learn about the business, product, and people incl key stakeholders and team mates 2. Next 30 days - Establish a vision and plan (or update one if the team already has it) along with the team on your key business priorities and path forward 3. Next 30 days (4 months mark) * E......Read More

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Senior Director of Product Management at Meta