PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The technical writer I hired was quite experienced and had a background in marketing. When we reviewed the product, she started asking me questions that I didn’t have a ready answer for. Great marketing people can’t always market well either. The API was well-defined. Turned out I was wrong. Guess what? Talk to us.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

For example, your title can be Senior Product Manager but you are actually required to do product leadership much more than product management (for example if you are the only product person in a startup).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. In such situations, you would typically be asked to come up with a strategy and roadmap ASAP, but you are still just learning the domain. Typically, the CEO will ask for a strategy or a roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. They have a solid business but realized that the growth potential there is limited so they pulled me in to help them redefine their vision and strategy. Strategy is not like solving a mathematical equation.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. Even higher-level goals can be refined and detailed.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

They’re also critical to the success of product management, product marketing and sales. While those mid and senior-level managers are usually in the know about some aspects of the customer’s strategy, they may not have the full perspective beyond their area of responsibility. Kudos if you’re already there.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. You Cannot Educate the Market if the Need Isn’t There Last week I talked about ways to educate the market , ones that can actually work despite the fact that educating the market is hard and usually not recommended.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. The market, however, understood it differently. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

If you have mediocre marketing and sales people, it wouldn’t work. If you have good marketing and sales people, they will be able to sell the product to some extent based on their network and talent. It’s much more than a UX exercise, it ties directly into your product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The roadmap brings the strategy to life, and therefore the roadmap story should start by clarifying the strategy. Part 1: What Are We Trying to Achieve Every strategy starts with a goal. Do we want it to come from a specific product or market segment? Note that this is a metaphor for your strategy, not your UX.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. One of the things I say about it is that strategy starts with the goals. I’ll start with the former.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. I gave my talk on “The Journey to Product-Market Fit” three times within a two week timeframe. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it They needed something else.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Strategic product thinking is hard. Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it I created a model called “The Product Circuit”, which I have since used in product strategy processes with dozens of companies and in my lectures when I explain the journey to product-market fit.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Alternatively, if for a specific profile none of the categories works well, it could mean that this profile isn’t fitting you or that you might be earlier in your product-market fit journey than you might have thought. If you have a product marketing manager, this is a good opportunity to involve them.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Much of the learning is about the market and the needs you all have. It happens through applying strategic product discovery processes (the same ones I advise my clients to use) and constantly listening to the market. They could be market changes — now is a great time to offer AI-related training services, for example.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Should you hire a senior product manager? Who Should You Hire?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. This is part of the definition of strategy?—?it’s Strategy is hard. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2024

We also share examples of different conversion paths and optimization strategies. From the moment they learn about the product until they complete a desired action, like a demo booking, and beyond. Here’s an example of a Userpilot user persona: Role in the company ( Product Marketing Manager ). Company details (e.g.

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Gainsight

JULY 12, 2023

In short, having a strong CS leader at the helm of your CS Ops strategy is make-or-break. Develop and execute strategies to optimize the customer success journey, ensuring a seamless and delightful experience for our customers. Familiarity with digital engagement strategies and methodologies is a plus. Here’s What to Look for.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When it comes to the product leader (in early-stage startups it is often even the same person as the hands-on product manager), they still see the importance of the role in the orchestration of the product execution. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role?

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Gainsight

APRIL 21, 2022

We compiled our best Product Experience resources from last year, from blogs, ebooks, and webinars. As the category creator of customer success and the definitive thought leader, this list is filled with the help you need to deliver the ultimate Product Experience for your customers. Top KPIs Every Product Manager Should Track.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

The product was still young but already well-defined and deployed on customers’ networks. I did a lot of work there on improving the product and making it more suitable for the market, easier to sell and deploy, and contributed directly to the product’s success and business growth throughout my time there.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. And guess what? You hope it’s enough.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They are all based on real stories of product leaders I work with as a consultant or in the CPO Bootcamp , and I’m sure you’ll find them as real as they are. A Roadmap Without a Strategy It’s this time of the year again, and everybody needs to plan their roadmaps. But this creates a false sense of peacefulness.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader. That’s why they are looking to hire a product leader and not just a senior product manager.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it. There are many ways to crisp up your strategy. A great product — unlike many promises you might have heard — wouldn’t sell itself. It always helps.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When the CEO sets the strategy, what is your role as a product leader? How can you be strategic when the strategy is set by someone else? When we were working on building their strategic roadmap, he asked me a great question: “why do I need to start with the strategy, and specifically when presenting to management?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2022

As product managers who are constantly in meetings and get questions from all around, this is critical. One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home. It was a countermeasure to the popular symptom of product managers doing their real work?—?market Working on the product strategy” is way too vague.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Enter Jobs To Be Done, a methodology that forgoes customer persona creation to instead segment markets and product opportunities around the different types of goals (jobs) customers use a product to achieve. For a great introduction, download Intercom’s Jobs To Be Done eBook. About John Kresse.

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