The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

So you found a new position as a product leader, congratulations! Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it!

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. In most cases, you have never been in this position yourself before, so interviewing could be a challenge. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Enjoy the B2B Product Manager December issue. Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Why Storytelling Skills For Product Management & Product Marketing Are Essential for Success. Product Management Playbook. Evolving to Product-Led Growth in 5 Steps. View the magazine. In This Issue.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Counter-positioning.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

that’s not me, I always talk to leadership about my plans and their buy-in is crucial to anything I do as a product manager. Leadership are the ones who can make or break your initiatives internally, they have power. And so we inform them, consult them, involve them. The ones who talk to customers for hours a day.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. Lena’s largest contributions to the Product Management field.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

They want to consult with me on whether or not product management is the right profession for them since they feel that they don’t know how to come up with these big ideas, and feel that it is needed in order to be able to lead. Product leadership deals with so many unknowns, that the absolute truth is not reachable in most cases.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Previously, Ivy has held executive positions spanning from head of product design and development to CMO and presidencies with several companies, including Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Art.com, Bausch & Lomb, and Gap. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant. Leadership Forum. More speakers to come!

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Product Management University

JULY 31, 2023

The career paths for sales engineers (SEs) and solution consultants (SCs) are wide open due to the blend of business and technical skills, sales skills and positioning expertise required to succeed in this role. Are Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants the Same? Answer RFPs – mostly the product sections. Sales quotas?

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Bain Public

JANUARY 4, 2020

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product of Bain Public, is honoured to be leading an expert workshop in collaboration with AIESEC, the world's largest youth-run organization that provides young people with leadership development. They hoped to change the world, one person and one internship at a time.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

Latest studies note that only 35% of product manager roles are filled by women, and most of those roles are entry-level positions, meaning they are often removed from influential decision making. And Kasey Cuppoletti, the Head of Product at DonorDrive, is responsible for making sure all those pieces fit together.

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bpma ProductHub

JANUARY 3, 2017

The decade long product experience from PM at DEC to VP of PM & Marketing established her in the foundational class of PM’s in Boston. In fact, she was among the very first class of the highly regarded Product Management certification from the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM).

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Start by talking to business stakeholders, like your leadership, customer success, marketing and more. This is particularly important when you’re product-led. As a VP of Product at Roam Digital, a full service consultancy, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a wide range of B2B and B2C products.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When I started working as a product manager, I understood that identifying and defining the problem is a crucial first step before even thinking about solving it. After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. About Rashid Manzar.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 4, 2020

Applicants for positions at Amazon can expect to be asked a set of questions commonly referred to as behavioral interview questions. Well, you may have already guessed, but they're the questions focused on gleaning info on your past behavior and performance in earlier positions. What's an example of a time that a project failed?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I use the term mentoring very broadly since what I am usually doing with my customers is a combination of consulting, mentoring and coaching. The fact that I get many more requests from women than men is pretty amazing, especially considering that women are still a minority among my target audience (senior product leaders?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February Product Conferences. Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

Chris revealed that as CPO, he sees his role as having accountabilities for ALL the product strategy, product roadmap, and product execution. He believes his job entails everything outbound through product marketing into the field organization. It’s a classic story of what management consultants do,” Chris said. “I

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. Once you decide you need to recruit a product manager, who should it be? It usually means that the workload is already unbearable.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

I tried the positive angle (“I see you are not happy, so tell me what you want and we’ll figure it out”), but the answers I got were nothing I could work with (“I want to work alone and for no one to ask questions about what I’m doing”). My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an How big is the gap?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. Julian Dunn is a senior product manager with Chef Software where he. About Julian Dunn.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Based on my most recent role as a Product Lead, my primary quadrant is the Strategic Product Manager, because the main responsibilities of my role were to conduct research, determine the vision and strategy, set up a product function and create, and support, a realistic roadmap. Product Leader, you will be.

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 2, 2019

Plus, we unlock new opportunities for you with our career upgrade service – right from access to other product leaders to helping you make the career switch. We help you navigate through the world of product leadership – even after the course via our community and conferences networking opportunities. 200+ topics.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Jeff and Josh are experienced digital product design leaders, and co-authors of Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience and Sense & Respond, How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously. Nate Walkingshaw, Author and CXO Pluralsight.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Therefore, she provides a great example of a stable product management career path: staying within the company, and evolving both vertically and horizontally. Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant. He is very involved in content marketing discussions on his blog. April Underwood is Chief Product Officer at Slack.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 8, 2022

This includes product management , software engineering , product marketing , and other key Google hires. Candidates are given two weeks to accept a position. But a Google interview process consultant can help to clue you in. Leadership Google hires for emergent leadership character traits.

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Bain Public

APRIL 28, 2020

You have products that deliver tremendous value for your customers and significant revenue and profitability for your business, but what if everything was about to change significantly, and you had insights into those changes? How would you position your business? Using Market Sensing and Knowledge Creation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While I was writing this article, one of my consulting clients called me to talk about this dilemma exactly: as their product is getting more mature and allows more functionality, their UX which was something they were super proud of up until now is getting slightly more complex. But do they really need this ?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Work to schedule 1-on-1s or meetings with the following people in your first 90 days as a product manager Other product managers; Engineering teams; Sales representatives; Marketing managers; Community managers; Program managers; Many new PMs may neglect these meetings, thinking that they'll occur naturally.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Dustin Levy is a Director of Product Management at Gentex Corporation—the leading supplier of high-performance flight equipment for military, law enforcement, and rescue aircrew worldwide. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Dustin Levy is a Director of Product Management at Gentex Corporation—the leading supplier of high-performance flight equipment for military, law enforcement, and rescue aircrew worldwide. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

By forcing your CEO to articulate a vision statement you can shift from a tactical, execution role to a highly strategic, product delivery role. There’s a lot of research on how a clearly articulated company vision positively affects a product manager’s decision making. Originally published on Product Management Insider.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I’ve been constantly surprised at what I don’t know, and have always loved the way that product management has allowed me to keep learning. Moving in this direction has given me a new outlook on how sales has the potential to help with product success (which, let’s face it, is success for the sales team, too).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

However, it's very challenging to get a full-time position at many of these companies. The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. Finally, the APM (Associate Product Manager) is for product management and product marketing management roles.

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