PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 3, 2022

A BizOps and Strategy professional will look at all kinds of raw data to inform their opinions. Professionals in this job will need to have an analyst’s eyes when looking for patterns or interpretations of the data. They can present narratives to leadership about the company’s current, past and future needs.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be leading a workshop on March 30th, 2021 in collaboration with EcoFuel : a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to seed stage cleantech startups.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2018

Successful project management requires a close working relationship with leadership to ensure each project is aligned with business strategy , even as companies undergo enterprise-wide change. She is also CEO and Founder of The Otobos Group, a communications consultancy specializing in project management, and an award winning writer.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.  ”  “Once Finance tells us how many developers we can hire next year, Engineering can assign teams to possible roadmap items.”   Or clean training data or LLM tools.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. Alexandra’s podcast empowers women in Product to think bigger about their careers and shoot for the leadership positions in their organizations. CEO of Product Labs.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Founded by fintech entrepreneur Louis Cléroux , Timechain hopes to decentralize finance for everyone. As part of his role at Timechain, Mario works with leadership to research and analyze the market, and define the product mission, strate gies, tactics which lead to the product roadmap updates and product growth opportunities.

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DISQO

JANUARY 15, 2020

Our goal is to ensure that companies use the Alpha platform to inform every decision with data, as they deploy digital transformation and customer-first growth strategies.”. the personalized email platform for the world’s fastest growing retailers, where he had responsibility for the go-to-market, partnerships and finance functions.

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DISQO

JANUARY 15, 2020

Our goal is to ensure that companies use the Alpha platform to inform every decision with data, as they deploy digital transformation and customer-first growth strategies.”. the personalized email platform for the world’s fastest growing retailers, where he had responsibility for the go-to-market, partnerships and finance functions.

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DISQO

JANUARY 15, 2020

Our goal is to ensure that companies use the Alpha platform to inform every decision with data, as they deploy digital transformation and customer-first growth strategies.”. the personalized email platform for the world’s fastest growing retailers, where he had responsibility for the go-to-market, partnerships and finance functions.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Under the mentorship of Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , Abigail and Sirena have attained the necessary experience and skills for coaching product startups. Abigail and Sirena’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2021

I strongly believe that human skills like those listed above are meta skills that are just as essential to product management and leadership as more traditional skills like strategy development, data analytics, roadmap development, etc. If you’re one of those who are into personal growth data though, here you go.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Not only that: giving back requires active involvement and implementing solutions in response to product leadership challenges and Canadian startup ecosystem expectations. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities. More About Our SOAP™Methodology.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

A Data Nerd at Heart. His actual area of study was in economics and statistics—a true data nerd at heart. He started in investment banking and later found himself in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). It’s a classic story of what management consultants do,” Chris said. “I

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Then the leadership team took our quarterly goals and translated them into objectives and shared them with the managers. Finance could do some basic automation in Google Sheets with Zapier, but the real boost required a tech solution. The leadership team will then prioritize the most relevant ideas and kick off the new quarter.

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DISQO

MARCH 28, 2019

A Fortune 500 executive recently told me, only half-jokingly, that “reorganizations are highly successful, if you’re a management consulting firm.”. The one thing that reorganizations have going for them is that they are definitionally supported by company leadership. The two most powerful ways to do this are data and stories.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stepping out of leadership challenges for a moment, here’s a practical topic that some product managers struggle with: is the next thing we’re working on a feature or a whole product ?  IMO,  IMO, there aren’t any universal/magical answers, but assorted hints and indicators.

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DISQO

MARCH 28, 2019

A Fortune 500 executive recently told me, only half-jokingly, that “reorganizations are highly successful, if you’re a management consulting firm.”. The one thing that reorganizations have going for them is that they are definitionally supported by company leadership. The two most powerful ways to do this are data and stories.

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DISQO

MARCH 28, 2019

A Fortune 500 executive recently told me, only half-jokingly, that “reorganizations are highly successful, if you’re a management consulting firm.”. The one thing that reorganizations have going for them is that they are definitionally supported by company leadership. The two most powerful ways to do this are data and stories.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

Why are you leaving consulting? Here, the interviewer wants to see how you would dive deeper and examine data that would be available to you if you were hired as the PM. You'll get the chance to work on a variety of brands under the Verison Media umbrella including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, AOL, and TechCrunch.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

You speak finance, technical and customer, connecting the dots for all three. See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). The daily responsibilities of a Product Manager include customer research, interpreting data and working closely with design, engineering, marketing and even legal.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 17, 2023

You may also be thinking, “But Steve Jobs said he didn’t talk to customers, and Apple created some of the coolest products out there under his leadership.” Can’t I just use my knowledge of the customer’s domain to create create solutions to their problems?” The thing is, that’s not actually what Jobs said.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

Why are you leaving consulting? Here, the interviewer wants to see how you would dive deeper and examine data that would be available to you if you were hired as the PM. You'll get the chance to work on a variety of brands under the Verison Media umbrella including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, AOL, and TechCrunch.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 17, 2020

PMs dance to the beat of many drummers, working to convince finance, sales, and customer support – not to mention industry analysts and C-suite executives – why their product is worthy of investment. The availability of data to help make decisions, and the social network to talk them through. [14:29] 14:29] A note to CEOs.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In this webinar, leading product development consultant , coach, and trainer Sari Harrison shows how to go beyond conventional metrics to understand whether you’re delivering value to users by helping them make their lives better. So today we’re going to close the gap, and we’re going to do that with impact metrics. Did we do it well?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For example, our Product team could decide to build a data export API after learning our fastest growing segment exports their conversation data far more often than other segments ( you can already do this in Intercom ??). For example, our Finance team is now able to confirm whether new customer growth is up in our target segments.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Over the last year, we’ve seen more and more companies–from Fortune 100 enterprises, like Microsoft, to high-growth innovators, like Intuit–leveraging behavioral data and product intelligence to build fantastic product experiences. How did you start your career? SS: Why did you join Amplitude?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

A degree in business, marketing, computer science, engineering, and data science can give you the foundation for a typical career path in product management. Many product leaders have a background in development, marketing , sales, customer support , UX design , and data management. On average, they make $331k a year.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Investments in interview skills coaching, data analytics, activity tracking? It’s as important as sales, marketing, finance, operations or support. What internal roadblocks need to be removed? Are product managers allowed to contact directly to customers without going through Sales or Support? I’ve been a CEO, and it’s no cakewalk.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 15, 2016

These make us physically uncomfortable: unfamiliar customers trying to force-fit our solution into complex new situations; prospects demanding references in an industry segment that we don’t understand; sales teams with a shopping cart full of surprise checklist requirements; head-scratching system architectures with obscure data flows.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

You’ll be consulted for advice on the process, relationships, tactical moves, etc., and will need to be confident and well-informed by data. Other product managers might be heads down in the data or more involved with customer interviews and feedback. Secondly, become an advocate for the product team to senior leadership.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With company leadership, product management sets the strategic direction for the product(s). The term “financial services” encompasses a wide range of products: Mortgage and real estate financing. Personal finance, banking, and credit. Insurance, including data analytics for re-insurers. Lending and underwriting.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

You’ll be consulted for advice on the process, relationships, tactical moves, etc., and will need to be confident and well-informed by data. Other product managers might be heads down in the data or more involved with customer interviews and feedback. Secondly, become an advocate for the product team to senior leadership.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

2] Failed or Low-Value Products/Features/Projects Until we unearth the data, no executive team believes that we have a validation or discovery problem. [2] 2] Failed or Low-Value Products/Features/Projects Until we unearth the data, no executive team believes that we have a validation or discovery problem.  As

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

We must understand their context, user case, price sensitivity, data preferences, workflows, etc. As UX folks have always known, we must reach out to an assortment of representative users/customers/prospects. We can’t spot the outliers until we’ve talked with large numbers of core users.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 but not in consulting days or developer hours or use-it-or-lose-it prepaid service agreements.  There’s  Hitting revenue targets means finding more projects, expanding project scope, building unique artifacts, hiring and deploying more implementers and consultants.  Which billable).  Building

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Throughout my time there, a little over six years, I went from being the top-performing account executive globally to moving into leadership to help build out our mid-market team out of the West Coast. He came in when Slack was at around 50 million ARR, and he really helped build out the leadership team and helped us scale to over a billion.

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