PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

They also need to understand what goes into product engineering to better know what changes or improvements will be possible in the future and which ones won’t. A CPO must coordinate employees from various functional areas, including software engineers, product managers, UX/UI designers, analysts, and marketers. Leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. How do you attract these different types of people and build the value for Slack going wall to wall inside of a large company versus a startup of 10 people or being siloed in the engineering department of a larger company? Here’s Rachel.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having strong and accomplished female professionals in important leadership roles. What does this balance look like to me?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. And that got me started thinking about this concept of search engines and that’s where it all came from. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content. We also did a lot of co-marketing.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

With leadership and PM direct reports. Reason #1: The Path to PM Tech Product Managers who develop their skills as Engineering Leaders. This is again about the How, but with less CS education and typically from marketing. With customers. And with stakeholders. The conversations that form the strategy.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But as data-driven decision making takes on increased significance, we’ve seen “ product ops ” emerge to fill in the gap between the leadership and vision aspects of the product management and the facts and figures that inform team members. You don’t want to be reliant on engineering resources every time you have a question.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. DC : Yeah an engineer, software engineer and then yes. of engineering for me over at HubSpot came along and we started this company the next day.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

And another thing that’s contributing to the skill shortage is design education. Another problem is you’re hiring for a design leadership position and you expect the person to design leadership to be hands on too. You talked about the education system, is it still doing that? It was absolutely brilliant.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Our aim is to make higher education more accessible, flexible and enjoyable than it has ever been and we do this by working with leading universities and educational institutions from all over the world. Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. They were available. Purpose: the MVP.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil Rahilly is our VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel and formerly our VP of Engineering. In addition to running product and design, he also oversees our support and education teams. Right now, we have about 100 people in engineering, product and design at Mixpanel. On finding the right balance in team composition.

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