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Essential Finance Product Manager Skills

The Product HQ

Are you curious to learn the top finance product manager skills recruiters are looking for? Finance PMs occupy a unique position within the world of product management. Since finance PMs are responsible for a specific niche of products, recruiters who scout for them look for a particular set of skills in candidates.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    Product management malpractice.    Stymied. 

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Finance Product Manager

ProductPlan

What is a finance product manager? Like a product manager in any other industry, a finance product manager is responsible for the success of a product or portfolio of products. Let’s be clear about how we define a finance product manager. Market analysis and product strategy.

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The Essential Questions That Lead to a Great Product Strategy

The Product Coalition

This is especially true for product strategy. It’s impossible to create a winning product strategy without asking basic questions.?—?why, why, what, how, when, and who- and the more complex questions, for example, “What’s the user acquisition strategy?”. Ensure you understand the company’s strategy and objectives.

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487: Product Innovation Management: First of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

The PDMA Comparative Performance Assessment Study has identified factors consistent among high product innovation performers, organized into seven areas. Product Strategy Well-defined new-product strategy First-to-market or fast-follower strategy Focus on sustainability Intellectual property considerations Global business model [13:24] 3.

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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy

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“My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”

Mironov Consulting

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or (combining a series of similar conversations).

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