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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Definitions : First let’s go through some quick definitions to make sure we’re speaking the same language.

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Dropping the news that something is late on the day it was due is doing you no favors.

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Customer Experience author Elizabeth Dixon on the CX that makes an impact

Intercom, Inc.

From the CEO and the management team to the intern fresh out of college, every employee or business owner has unique qualities that position them to bring excellent customer experiences to life. Liam: I was going to ask your definition of customer experience, but I feel the story has just given it. Liam: That’s fantastic.

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What is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence?

Sachin Rekhi

The Role The reason the definition of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence is so elusive is because the role takes on different meanings at different firms. Though full scale development is usually left for after the EIR period is over. EIR serves as part of the investment team. An understanding of the VC perspective.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. There are things, bets you might take, but you definitely wouldn’t have taken in the midst of a pandemic.

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