Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The role of the product leader goes far beyond managing the product department. Unfortunately, in most companies, there is no one who can tell you that, simply because they haven’t seen it before. Here is your true responsibility as a product leader, so that it’s no longer a secret. But what is product definition exactly?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. the search process.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s a few that stand out in different ways but this is by no means a ranked list… Product, marketing, strategy, operations and company growth. Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony: Building a minimum badass user A completely different way of thinking about your product and your users. This will make you reconsider.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. They manage complex products and work with team members in all departments.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It will be the product adventure of a lifetime. We are gearing up to support you in accelerating your product strategies and provide the tools you’ll need to level up your career in product. Previously at Google and Facebook , he fully comprehends how products impact billions of users globally. Get in, everyone.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As Gainsight PX CTO Mickey Alon discussed with Carlos Gonzales Villaumbrosia, Founder & CEO of Product School and author of The Product Book , the solution isn’t complicated—it’s product-led growth. Right now, most companies are still practicing sales-led growth. Sprites were difficult to see.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. Companies could integrate backward and forward. Should the organization work with an outside consulting company (e.g.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

You could, therefore, define product ops as follows: “Product ops builds a foundation for excellence by reinforcing product strategy with metrics, infrastructure, business processes, best practices, budgeting, and reporting.” The answer to that varies significantly from company to company.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

One question that surfaced a number of times: as a company that’s branded around Customer Success, what is Gainsight doing to preserve Aptrinsic’s high velocity and orientation towards Product? The question behind the question is: “The Aptrinsic product, team, and message resonates with me. This is a team that’s kicking butt.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. .

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

This is particularly important since dog sledding depends on all the sled dogs following the lead dog; this is the CEO of a company. the ‘swing’ people are those who support the leader in a way that gets others on the team to follow along; these would be the PLT members of a company. Product leadership culture is messy.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. This may have been true in the company’s very earliest days, when we had a handful of active users and no sales or support group.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

They must understand all aspects of a business to thoughtfully plan for the company’s future. Many business decisions fall on the CPO’s shoulders, including those that affect company-wide issues such as infrastructure or restructuring. A CPO must be able to seamlessly align their goals with those of the company.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Amplitude’s mission to help companies build better products is well-known. Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. In most software companies, teams are broken up by what you do. Our other mission?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Adeo Ressi, of ‘Founders Institute’ will tell anyone listening that “ At the end of the day there is only one thing that kills a company, that is when the founder gives up ”. Their day to day might run perfectly and production outputs very high. Yet their paths, strategy, roadmap prioritization were not well decided, if set at all.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. Most companies offer more than a single product.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Launching new products and features in market. Managing and optimising existing products. Withdrawing existing products from market. Every company wields its set of Product Management activities slightly differently, making it difficult to define the function with exact clarity. Product Management is hard.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Startup founder?

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

It’s a compelling and non-BS answer relevant for PMs at any sized-company. 12 things about product-market fit. I really love this post because most PMs struggle to conceptualize product-market fit, since it varies from product to product. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future. Product managers for the digital world. This insightful article from McKinsey & Company talks about today’s product manager evolving into a mini-CEO.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

Ellen, do you want to tell us a little bit about the company and your role, and who you’re working with that you introduced continuous discovery to? What was going on at your company at that time? We’d all transitioned to working from home instead of being in the office and figuring that out. Ellen: Sure.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Product-led growth is a business strategy in which a company uses its product as the main tool to acquire customers. With this model, a business offers users free access to its product. Importantly, this comes with the expectation that the product itself will persuade them to become paying customers.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

He stepped in as a product manager at Dropbox while the product team was still fairly small. At the time, he says the company’s co-founder and CTO personally reviewed almost every product decision. As Lynch recalls, the CTO was busy, but the review process seemed to work well while the team was still small.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Surely we’ve all noticed the increased emphasis on “strategy” as a core competency for product managers? For company leadership too, encouraging product managers to operate strategically can feel like a way to optimize both accountability and empowerment for an often-ambiguous role. The “I am the Strategy” Trap.

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