Zeeshan Qamruddin

Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech, HubSpot

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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?

Zeeshan Qamruddin

HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech • April 12

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 heavily focused on understanding how things operate current state, finding out pain points as well as the more successful parts......Read More

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

Zeeshan Qamruddin

HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech • April 13

At the company level, there are a few different methods of communications to keep everyone abreast of updates: 1. Product Notification emails (Ad Hoc) - These emails have a set template and allow product teams from around the company to share updates to their areas in a digestable forma......Read More

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

Zeeshan Qamruddin

HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech • April 13

Today, our org structure follows the ethos of "Small, autonomous teams". In this structure, we generally have a PM paired with a Technical Lead (Eng), somewhere between 3 - 5 Engineers, and a Business Systems Analyst to focus on operational and analytical tasks. Some teams have a Design/UX repres......Read More

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

Zeeshan Qamruddin

HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech • April 12

This is a situation that our team went through last year, scaling from 2 PMs to 10 over 12 months. Before hiring any additional PMs, we first took the time to survey the teams that existed in our current state. We reviewed the tools they owned, their missions, their place in the lifecyle of the m......Read More

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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?

Zeeshan Qamruddin

HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech • April 12

This is a scenario that teams often find themselves in, especially in fast moving parts of a business. The question I would ask when looking across the existing products is "Where do I gain the most leverage from innovation?" There are certain products that simply need to work, and that have a......Read More

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

Zeeshan Qamruddin

HubSpot Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech • April 12

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 product that you've been brought in to support for some time. Those same team members likely led to you being brought on board ......Read More

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Credentials & Highlights

Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech at HubSpot

Formerly Segment, WeWork, Airbnb