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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

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Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Finding Your True Career IMPACT Within the Product Field

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Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. Anyone in product for a few years quickly notices no fixed definition of product management from one company to another.

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How to Create a Product Operations Dashboard in 4 Steps

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If there’s not already a full guide to your architecture and data flows handy, it’s time to interview your CTO and/or architect to learn exactly what does what and which data sources are available. Step Two: Determine KPIs. Ideally, each KPI you include on the dashboard represents a different goal or major area of focus.

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Roadmap Alternative FAQ

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I’ve tried to explain many times that often the best single source of true innovation are our engineers. That doesn’t mean every engineer is going to be like this, but the mindset where no engineers can do this is a very serious problem. Q: What’s the difference between Product Scorecards and OKRs?

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33 Amazing Articles Every Product Manager Must Read

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12 Six Steps to Superior Prototyping: Lessons from an Apple and Oculus Engineer. When Caitlin Kalinowski became head of product design engineering at Oculus , she and her team faced a stiff challenge. Are you worried about that one metric for your product or maybe velocities for your engineering team? Author: Andy Wicks.

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Q&A with Neil Rahilly, VP Product and Design, on product strategy, team composition, and customer feedback

Mixpanel

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. Right now, we have about 100 people in engineering, product and design at Mixpanel.

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Q&A with Neil Rahilly, VP Product and Design, on product strategy, team composition, and customer feedback

Mixpanel

Neil Rahilly is our VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel and formerly our VP of Engineering. Right now, we have about 100 people in engineering, product and design at Mixpanel. So David, who’s the VP of Engineering, and I think about what should the groups be? On finding the right balance in team composition.