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Vasanth Arunachalam

Vasanth Arunachalam

Director, Technical Program Management, Meta

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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
I’ll try to answer this first question along with the question of - “What metrics do technical product teams look at to define success, what do you find to be the most im...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
It could be a combination of any of these things - Look at data (dashboards, customer feedback channels, internal partner team feedback) to check progress (on product su...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
This response also applies to one of the other questions asked here - "What qualities stand out in some of the best TPMs you know?" I strongly believe that you can be a s...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
I love this question because it flips one of the previous questions to focus more on the individual. IMO the success of a Technical Product/Program Manager largely lies i...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
I'll answer this question in combination with "How is the role of technical product manager different than other product managers?" There is likely no formal definition o...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
I talked about my take on desirable qualities in one of my previous responses, so I’ll focus on the common mistakes I’ve personally made in my career in the past, that ho...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft3y
I’m assuming the question is about setting a ‘team’ vision/mission and one doesn’t exist yet. The mission statement is the “What” and the vision statement is an ambitious...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
Great to hear that more and more SWEs/SREs are considering transitioning into this career. I was a SWE myself before I transitioned to this role. Technical Product/Progra...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft4y
I personally enjoy my role. I think no challenge is insurmountable. If I were to think hard, especially at Meta, the pace at which technology advances is simply astoundin...
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Vasanth Arunachalam
Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft3y
I’ll apply the framework outlined above to this question and talk about setting up a Technical PM function for the first time. 30 days of LEARNING: I’ll start with a list...
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Credentials & Highlights
Director, Technical Program Management at Meta
Formerly Microsoft
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Lives In San Jose, CA
Knows About Technical Product Management, Product Management 30/60/90 Day Plan, Building a Produc...more