Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Each department wants to hire in its own image.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Gender Gap report – women represent just 36.9% of leadership roles. Again…Why? Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Audience size: 1,500.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A successful product delivers value when it is aligned to your product vision and goals. A product delivers value when it provides a fair return in exchange for time, money, goods, or services. Refinement assumes that the product owner collaborate with the development team to order the backlog based on value.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. And we [product managers] are often too shy or subtle to give them really clear feedback about their requests.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He’s someone you’ll certainly have come across if you’re at all interested in any of the discussion around the thinking and theory behind product management. Currently, John is the product evangelist at San Francisco product analytics software developer Amplitude. My Role is a Product. I enjoy product.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I’m currently building a lot of internal tools to help folks do their jobs more efficiently—and to help them scale. That’s not okay.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Take product managers. But you know, it’s not just them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Unlike some other roles, like product manager , software engineers can have various job titles and responsibilities, each of which may influence the specific direction of that person. Experience building and maintaining cloud services.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

In some organizations, the role of a product manager can be a murky one. Product managers don’t have full authority over all of the aspects that make products a success, such as user and data research, marketing, sales, or support. These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Product professionals get paid to manage products and services. But this single-minded focus on helping others often leads to a lack of focus on ourselves and our career impact in the product field. And, unlike our products, no one’s getting paid to manage our careers on our behalf. Interesting.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor. It’s good for getting advice.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

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. How do you define your product strategy? And they’re not all the same size.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

Try to get your CS org from proactive to predictive and prescriptive. How clean is your data? Next, is the backbone of your CS operations: access to accurate data, consistent processes, the right tech stack, and a feedback loop. Major Takeaways: Always be proactive and not reactive. Complex and fast?

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

They’re split into four groups: analysis, data, admin and growth. And then there’s about a third in data and then admin and growth are smaller teams. The analysis group is focused on the core, Mixpanel product analytics experience for the end users that come in and are trying to answer questions about their product.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In the opening keynote at this year’s London #mtpcon, Silicon Valley Product Group’s Marty Cagan shared his latest thoughts on what makes a great product manager by looking at the people behind some great products. But no one knows Jane Manning, the product manager who was asked to get it off the ground.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

I asked members of StubHub’s Product & Technology team to get their honest thoughts, experiences and predictions on this important topic. Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion.

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Product Manager in Heels

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Feedback recipients gain insight into how others perceive them and have an opportunity to adjust behaviors and develop skills that will enable them to excel at their jobs. How do I collect the data? At a minimum, the employees manager(s) and peers should be included in the survey. Begin to collect data through a standard survey.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

They are archetypal BoS talks: honest, full of insight, and give you a peek behind the curtain at the inner workings of a successful SaaS company. But if I’m the only manager, who’s flying the plane? And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. That’s the proper answer. It was bad. Loneliness.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). They build run and own great products and we have a happy team. And this is how you managed to do this kind of work. They don’t have metrics.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

All of their data would run through our technology because at the other end of that there are brands and businesses that really wanted to understand what was happening on social media; what was happening around their brand, their industry, their market. This is a B2B product. This is a B2B product. Key lessons.

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