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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

Userpilot

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Coaching/mentoring/training plan. Or have seniors on your team formally assigned to mentor the novices. We learn by doing.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

As one of the first 35 employees, her first order of business was to launch Pinterest internationally and close the Series C financing. Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. Kate Leto, Product Coach.

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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

Mironov Consulting

A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. Most CEO escalations are to help close a really big deal with unique demands that sales and product/engineering won’t satisfy, or large existing customers frustrated enough to demand a chat with the boss.

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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

Through his time at eBay, Netscape, HP and elsewhere, Cagan has worked with lots of great product teams, and has been influential in his writing and coaching about the role of product over the years, but he acknowledges that there is still a lot of confusion about the role of a product manager. Google Adwords.

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Webinar Recording: Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning and AOP with SAFe® for Agile Organizations

Agile Velocity

At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance. We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO. That’s why we need familiarity with that level and we need to coach that level.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr.