The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This post brings all of these together to provide you with a four-step process to create your own Career Development Plan. And an overview of the key responsibilities of each quadrant: Alright, that’s a brief recap done, now let’s look at how you can use these quadrants to help your career. I’m not talking about seniority just yet?—?I’ll

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Established in 2010, TPMAS are awarded annually and saw hundreds of nominations across our 7 categories. Gaudio is a graduate of Monmouth University where she remains an active life and career mentor for both students and post-grads. Garrett began his career as a developer in the 90’s. Jenna Gaudio. ?Jenna Harpal Singh.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

Alyssa’s career has two sustaining threads – writing and being a motivation wonk. Even today, it’s considered a best-seller internationally in its category. Throughout her operating career, Alyssa made sure to communicate her experience & learnings to the outside world through her highly successful books.

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ProductCraft

JUNE 16, 2021

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Anneliese Olson, General Manager & Global Head of Printing Category at HP. Anneliese started her career as a market research analyst, and she conducted numerous product marketing and management projects in 25 countries.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For example, you can upload your roadmap, your company values, your career ladders, etc. Track competitors “We are doing competitor and category tracking in social with LLMs.” ” —Anonymous 19.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 6, 2023

Every year we have alumni who graduate, go on to college, and go into STEM careers or other careers, and from Science Olympiad they take the soft skills of collaboration, teamwork, and intellectual curiosity that are the hallmarks of Science Olympiad. We look for subject matter experts in all our event categories.

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nulab

JANUARY 26, 2022

Then, label each circle with categories like “strengths,” “interests,” “motivations,” “expectations,” and “obstacles.” By looking at the relationships between these topics, you can generate goal ideas that fit within multiple categories. On top of that, they offer broad flexibility to create as many categories as you need.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 7, 2016

Slides: Product Management Career Ladders. One of the areas I often mentor product managers on are the career paths available to them within the profession. The 8 technology firms whose career ladders I’ve showcased below have all achieved this scale and have thus invested in career ladders for their respective product organizations.

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 13, 2022

Before helping early-stage startups, Arielle started her career in Product Marketing at Google, where she helped launch and grow Google Books and AdWords before leading marketing for Gmail. She then joined Square, where she led the launch of the Square Stand. Read This First. Read This First.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Max Altschuler has made a career seeking out efficiencies in sales – hacks, as he calls them – and sharing them with the wider SaaS and sales community. It’s an empowering way to break through malaise and see what incremental gains you’re making as a human and in your career. Max: We had to pick the right categories.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

There is a vast breadth of research that can inform product decisions, Sarkar said, outlining a three-pronged process : category-segmentation, longitudinal and life-cycle studies. It’s part of vital communication during the design process, Sarkar said.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

There is a vast breadth of research that can inform product decisions, Sarkar said, outlining a three-pronged process : category-segmentation, longitudinal and life-cycle studies. It’s part of vital communication during the design process, Sarkar said.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I’m nearly 20 years into my career, and I’ve yet to meet a great PM or Designer without strong Product Judgment. Early on in my Intercom career, I made some bad product and design decisions. Having worked on social software for much of my career, I had strong Product Judgment in that domain, and could apply it to Intercom.

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Gainsight

APRIL 27, 2022

Gainsters Love Working In Category Creation and Enabling Careers. Crazy and slightly irresponsible people (like us) decide, “let’s build software for a category that doesn’t even exist.” In the early days, category creation often felt like Sisyphus pushing the proverbial rock up the hill.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Scratch that, it was the best of my career. First and foremost, I realized that we are just getting started – with category creation, with the Customer Success movement, with our Community, and with our Human-first purpose. Category Creation Is Hard and Important. Last week was a pretty good week. I’m All In.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 6, 2019

In order to prepare for a talk I delivered at Mind the Product’s 2019 Leadership Forum in San Francisco I’ve spent the last couple of weeks applying the lens of psychological safety to the things I’ve experienced and witnessed in my product career. Two Types of Product Leader.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2023

Why Positioning Fails in Sales A hotshot vice president of marketing, working inside companies for 25-30 years, may have positioned something four or five times in their career. You start seeing the patterns in a way you never would have, if you were a CEO your whole career. They want to go do something new.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 16, 2018

In the first part of my career as a product leader, I learned to be customer focused. In the latter part of my career, I shifted my approach from customer focus to customer obsession. And instead of focusing on competitors, I learned to create all-new categories where there was far less competition.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

From one-and-done rap careers to Disney-esque musicals to the Back Street Boys inspiring us , our value of Child-like Joy definitely filled my bucket over the last decade. Nearly every “category-creating” company ends up standing for something. I Have Nothing” without the Careers of Our Customers. People buy from people.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 15, 2021

Imposter Syndrome and Career Goals. Our report also found that women in product are 14% more likely to frequently or consistently feel imposter syndrome in their careers than men. Nearly half of product people say their 10-year career goals are to become a product leader. 9x more likely to innovate.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

Over her 25-year career, Pam’s dedication to her customers has been the backbone of sustainable growth at companies like Salesforce, Zendesk, ServiceMax, and now Zapier. . In her own words , “When you take care of your customers, the revenue comes.”

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Sadly for us all, this kind of attention is often only lavished on taking yoga classes or learning the ukulele, albeit worthy goals, but it is never applied to our careers. I’m putting the framework up here because, in my job, I get asked a lot about skills development and career development and maybe others will find it useful.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 22, 2022

The diminished power of the “category captains” – the top sellers of products such as soup or cereal is the biggest change to the way food is sold since Walmart expanded its grocery offerings 30 years ago. It’s your product – it’s your career. Subscribe now: Click Here! What We’ll Be Talking About Next Time.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Over the course of my product development career, I’ve developed the following hypothesis: “If I focus more on utility and usefulness, and less on a silver bullet of value, then I will solve more meaningful problems for customers, bridge more gaps and unlock more revenue for my company.” The answer is Pro Tools offers the most utility.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Sadly for us all, this kind of attention is often only lavished on taking yoga classes or learning the ukulele, albeit worthy goals, but it is never applied to our careers. I’m putting the framework up here because, in my job, I get asked a lot about skills development and career development and maybe others will find it useful.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

One example that comes to mind was that when I was in the 6th grade I was about to get an A in all categories except in sports. I served in the army (and almost stayed there for my entire career), and felt great as an employee in a variety of companies for almost 20 years. I was a straight-A student and worked really hard to get there.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

I’ve found the model to be very powerful in my career, and I hope it’s helpful to you. 1,000s of different product categories have addressed this deep human desire over the millennia. In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. We’re called “product” managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

I reached out to women across the company, from engineering to R&D to product management, to get a sense of how they view the term “women in tech” and how, or if, they find it useful to them in their careers and personal lives. The first person I spoke to was Nidhi Kamat. Feeding into impostor syndrome. It felt normal.

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The Review by First Round

JUNE 10, 2021

In addition to sharing her broader philosophy around the role of comms and her thoughts on why it’s one of the more underappreciated functions, Shannon gets into the tactical weeds on everything from killing stories and creating new categories, to her frameworks for building relationships with reporters.

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bpma ProductHub

JANUARY 3, 2017

Alyssa’s career has two sustaining threads – writing and being a motivation wonk. Even today, it’s considered a best-seller internationally in its category. Throughout her operating career, Alyssa made sure to communicate her experience & learnings to the outside world through her highly successful books.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

Liam: To kick things off, could you tell us a little about your career up to this point? I’ve had three stages in my career, if you will, thus far. For example, we have all kinds of categories on agriculture technology and, one of my favorites, amusement park design software. Amanda Malko: Thanks for having me.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 6, 2022

As a result, being a software engineer at Google can be an incredibly fulfilling career. It consists of only four categories, each consisting of four possible scores. These categories are Algorithms, Coding, Communication, and Problem-solving. Google places a significant emphasis on technical skills for its engineering teams.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I’ve been in Customer Success for 20+ years across five B2B SaaS companies and I’m proud to be “born in the cloud” having spent my entire career in the subscription economy focused on building programs to scale customer retention & growth. Gainsight then led the charge in defining and maturing the category and profession.

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Gainsight

MARCH 10, 2022

It is common knowledge that CS is one of the most in-demand careers right now. But as a CS newbie or a career climber, how do you accomplish your goals in a competitive environment? As the category creator of customer success, Gainsight is always looking for creative and innovative solutions. . Her advice for the CS newbie?

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

But first, I want to thank the incredible Northpass team for building a leading company in a rapidly-emerging category over the past decade. Our vision is to elevate customer education into a mission-critical function at every company and build the #1 platform in the category.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I will provide you with insights by looking at the music career of one of the greatest hip hop groups out there, and enjoying some of their best quotes and music. EL-P’s career is an impressive one, with plenty of shifts, focus and refocus. When browsing www.runthejewels.com you notice the Drinks and Smoke categories.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2020

What they want to know is if their consumer mobility is increasing at the same time as interest in the category in a given market? It’s your product – it’s your career. The product managers at Mercedes-Benz are seeking data to answer questions on customer behavior and economic activity in different regions.

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