People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2023

How can it help product and marketing teams make data-driven decisions and improve the user experience at different stages of the customer journey? TL;DR Digital analytics allows teams to measure and analyze product performance to improve their digital strategy. acquisition channels), product data (e.g.,

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 16, 2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Mercury —The powerful and intuitive way for ambitious companies to bank • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Jag Duggal is chief product officer at Nubank, a decacorn neobank founded in Brazil.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2022

Micro goals vs macro goals in product marketing: Have you ever wondered what the difference is and how can you use both to achieve customer success and product growth ? As a product marketing manager, you need to set goals that would guide and motivate you and your team members.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. PMMs need to take the time to understand PMs’ needs and pain points. Influencing the Roadmap.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. PMMs need to take the time to understand PMs’ needs and pain points. Influencing the Roadmap.

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Table of Contents What is customer-centricity? Essential customer experiences to consider. Final thoughts Those products that have changed us and made our lives easier, or even enhanced humanity, have that impact and reach because the people who built those products emphasize customer-centricity above all else.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 6, 2023

Customers nowadays expect omnichannel customer experience when they deal with a business. That is why companies use in-product communication , email newsletters, support calls, live chats, and social media channels to ensure that customers get a seamless experience. What is omnichannel customer experience?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Gathering meaningful insight from your customers is a challenge for any product manager: what you need is a handy user persona survey template to help you capture it… We’re here to help! In this article, we’re going to explore how user personas can help you gather and utilize customer insight more effectively.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

Most startups teams think you can’t set an outcome if you don’t have a product yet, but this isn’t true. Sally and Jim are equipped with a clear customer segment profile—first-time podcasters—and a clear value proposition—help them grow their podcast audience. Sally and Jim don’t have any customers.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? What should a product manager do to achieve and maintain the PMF? Product-market fit and product development are interconnected and happen in parallel. Let’s jump in!

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

TL;DR Digital product experience encompasses all customer touchpoints and interactions with a digital product across its lifecycle. It’s also not the same as user experience. Product experience management helps to: Enhance the entire customer journey and deliver personalized experiences.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Brian Chesky of Airbnb sparked a lively debate last year by questioning the role of product managers in today’s fast-evolving business landscape. He stated, “Airbnb has morphed its product management function into an “Apple-style product marketing function.” Aligning Product Vision and Strategy 2.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product management is absolutely critical to securing a product’s success. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If you’re wondering what different types of customer feedback are and how to collect them, you’re in the right place! In this article, we look at 13 different ways to collect feedback that product managers can leverage to gain a deep understanding of customer needs and make informed product decisions.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well. A roadmap example.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). But rather than focusing on optimizing for speed, the set of features is optimized for customer delight. So how do you create a minimum delightful product of your own?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. Product marketing sits between product development and the market.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Are you looking for the best strategies on how to market software products? Marketing software products can be challenging with the abundance of tools out there saying they do everything for everyone. What does a software marketing strategy for SaaS looks like? You might be wondering, how to compete.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who wants to make a significant impact on the overall success of the business should switch to Product Marketing roles several times in his career. It happened with me too.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

CEOs of Product companies, though they might never have climbed the Product Management corporate ladder before, can be considered Product Leaders for their impact on the Product world. Note: These don’t just apply to vanilla Product Management. First of all, an all-star Product Leader has empathy for the customer.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

In Step 4, you seek customer insights and run experiments to assess user interest. Popular validation techniques include online surveys , user interviews and focus groups, and fake door tests. A minimum viable product (MVP) is a version of the product with only core features. What are the product goals?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

During this period, we went through different phases, which gave us several lessons that helped us identify our final vision to build an open-source data integration engine. Having a solution that doesn’t address a problem that is a big enough pain point will never become a must-have. This article lists these lessons.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising, technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. designing screens, writing code, running tests).

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. It’s absolutely rooted in the empirical data that gives an objective understanding of your customers’ paint points and desires.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. To build the best possible go-to-market strategy, you should: Define your target audience and what their JTBDs.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2023

Both product personas (B2B) and user personas (B2C) describe somebody who users the product while buyer personas describe those who decide to buy products. Product personas help product managers keep alignment between the product and its vision. Remove bias from your product decisions.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

To avoid falling into the trap, set clear and realistic objectives that are aligned with the product vision. User stories make you focus on solving specific user problems rather than the actual features. Use opportunity solutions trees to align the problems you try to solve with product goals. Book the demo!

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