Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

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. . I measure this in ratios: how many “makers” (including developers, designers, DevOps, researchers) are lined up against each product manager?

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A typical cryptocurrency project will have a team of developers, economists, investors, and advisors who work together to bring the project to fruition. Lack of transparency: Cryptocurrency projects must maintain a high level of transparency in order to gain the trust of users and investors.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Teresa: Who are your typical customers?

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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. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups. If you’re overseeing 52 developers and 4 product managers, your attention is mostly on engineering issues rather than product issues.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

If teams can do that they have a chance at meeting their customers’ changing needs and generating a return on investment for the business. Without empowerment everything slows down and the people who are further away from what’s happening with customers make all the decisions. Point Towards the Mountain.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. In the end, I found a name that I think works well for both (ask me again in 5 years): Crafty CTO / craftycto.com for the entity, with the blog living at CraftyCTO.com/blog.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. That’s still big enough to get you your next increment of growth as a company and growth in your user base.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil Rahilly is our VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel and formerly our VP of Engineering. Product strategy begins with figuring out exactly what kind of user that you want to serve and what use case that you want to serve for them. And you can really delight those users. And then it really starts to flow.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

While there is still no one-size-fits-all solution, a standard is emerging from most successful product teams and organisations that can serve as a template for your own: Product Management Career Ladder. Since it’s still a relatively new role, there’s a lot of confusion around product management job titles, seniority, and hierarchy.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

Product managers don’t have full authority over all of the aspects that make products a success, such as user and data research, marketing, sales, or support. These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring. Conducting customer research. Learning from user testing. Spearheading design.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. The Problem. Final thoughts.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT. Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Few talk about the silent hero that boosts them to the elite level: consuming the written word. Most interesting are the three product manager archetypes (which one do you fit under?) 5 Designing Your Product’s Continuous Feedback Loop. So do your customers. Author: Jonathan Golden. . #5 Author: Sachin Rekhi.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Getting that feedback is invaluable in shaping opinions, planning projects, and presenting strategy to management.” “I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I wanted to share what I’ve learned after doubling both product and engineering teams. how to create tech products customers love,” by Marty Cagan. It helped me structure the product team and how our team interacted with the engineering team. This initiative was led by our Head of Customer Success, Head of Marketing and me.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Other attendees tend to be from business analytics, UX & design, development & engineering, and project management departments. Which industries are the attendees from?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. You can’t grow your business if your customers don’t trust you with their sensitive data.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Hint: this is how engineers would approach prioritization and roadmapping in an unemotional world of perfect information and fully aligned organizational goals. “Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” Instead, I emphasize picking improvements that large numbers of customers have requested.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

And refinement requires tough decisions that balance different stakeholder perspectives of value with how value changes over time based on evolving market conditions and customer need. Backlog refinement is the engine that drives ongoing delivery of valued product increments. Taking a Holistic View of Backlogs. Conclusion. References.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Delighting customers and creating innovative solutions for their problems dictates our priorities. A selfless approach based on customer empathy and satisfying stakeholders is an asset on the job, but less so for ourselves. Tailor your resume, cover letter, and personal pitch to fit a particular job opportunity. To your company?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. The customer or user acquisition strategy is product-led and follows this concept of land and expand.

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