Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on Product-Led Growth (PLG) and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in the PLG field Looking for a job in PLG companies?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2025

Each week, I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: A guide to AI prototyping for product managers Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity Top angel investors in the U.S.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2025

How serial innovators transform product management Watch on YouTube TLDR Navigating innovation in mature organizations requires a unique approach that goes beyond traditional business strategies. Bruce’s research, highlighted in the groundbreaking book Serial Innovators revealed fascinating insights into these exceptional team members.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

The same applies to product organisations — since creating visuals is the only clearly visible skill that no one else knows how to do, product designers are often pushed or expected to focus solely on that. So, what can a newly liberated product design generalist do with all that reclaimed time?

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Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

My journey through corporate leadership has shown that influence isn’t about titles but about connection and purpose – a lesson I’m passing on for you to apply in your career. As I alluded to, people in business require leadership. Another technique you can use is something that product people and marketers use: the persona.

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Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Some of you also know me through some of the books I’ve written, namely Product Manager’s Desk Reference, Business Acumen Handbook, and so on. I do a lot of research. And, the research is done sometimes to the workshops I deliver. It could be for a production line. So what is going on?

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Leading a product team (or several teams) comes with its own set of challenges that’s often similar to but distinct from the hurdles individual product contributors face. That’s why it’s especially enlightening when you encounter a product leader who is willing to openly share the challenges they’ve faced. Teresa: Okay.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. This is why Teresa talks about continuous discovery in terms of forming new habits. It’s not so much about becoming perfect at continuous discovery (because there really isn’t such a thing). Have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share with Product Talk readers?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I gather data through surveys about observations. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

I’m excited to add Hope Gurion as an official author on Product Talk. She coaches teams using my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum and is helping me bring the Continuous Discovery Habits workshop to more companies. Good discovery starts with a clear desired outcome. – Teresa. Tweet This. Grow margin.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product? This sounds simple enough.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

As the person in charge of the product, your aspiration should be to lead the stakeholders in order to create value together and achieve product success. In reality, however, some product people either aim to please the stakeholders by saying yes to their requests or by brokering compromises. Form a Stakeholder Communi ty.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. Why is Empathy Important in Product Management? First, empathy is the foundation for effective leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. This includes product roles such as product owner and feature owner. Having an effective Scrum Master allows you to focus on your job—to maximise the value the product create.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

Last month I had the privilege of participating in SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ workshop in Europe. I soon found out that I was going to be the only one from Israel attending the workshop. I guess we were a biased audience to agree with it, as we were a room full of product coaches at various levels ??

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

But before we get to solutions, I want to share more of our discovery context for Product Talk, the business. I use the exact same methods that I teach to product trios to run my own business. Product Talk’s Desired Outcome. Product Talk’s Desired Outcome. Tweet This. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

80 to over 100 hours per week to “change the world” is what Elon Musk wrote in a 2018 tweet, referring to what was considered a standard working week at the time Tesla was ramping up production of its Model 3 sedans. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

For the 50th episode of The Product Experience, we’re proud to have Chris Adams join us to talk about making your products more sustainable. Emily Tulloh – and the overview on Workshop on Service design in a climate emergency – What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like? normative.io.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How product managers can align stakeholders on product projects. Today we are talking about the need for product leaders to manage stakeholders and the associated challenges this creates. Aligning the perspectives of stakeholders on a product project is desirable as well as difficult. ” What a great quote.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Taking a break from the always entertaining/sometimes informative podcast Jake & Jonathan (formerly known as The Product Breakfast club, which he co-hosts with Jake Knapp), AJ&Smart CEO Jonathan Courtney joined us to chat about Design Sprints, workshops, and how to get groups of people collaborating. Quote of the Episode.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2018

Qualitative research vs Quantitative data. Discovery vs Delivery. Usability testing vs A/B testing. The best product people don’t think about them as binary positions but treat all methodologies and orthodoxies as tools, and know when to pick each one out of their toolbox in order to solve a specific challenge.

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Mind the Product

JULY 26, 2019

Last week we gathered 1,650 passionate product people from 34 countries around the world in San Francisco for two days of learning, sharing, and honing our craft. A huge thanks to our tireless team for making it all happen – from our crew, volunteers, and production and venue staff to our sponsors. Leadership. With over 19.9

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What product managers need to know about the Product Development and Management Association. The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) has been curating the body of knowledge for product managers, leaders, and innovators and helping them improve since 1976—the longest-running product management professional group.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2023

If you’re a workshop leader or meeting facilitator, at some point you’ve probably observed the not-so-fun energies of resistance and aversion among your participants. The truth is, the workshop experience is going to be a waste of time if it isn’t grounded in a well-thought-out design. So, where does a winning workshop design begin?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

A couple of weeks ago myself and some of my team sat down to talk about how we could attract some of the best people around to join our Product team. If you’re a product person, then you’re one of us, we understand you. Our VP Product worked as a PM, a Designer and a Researcher in his career. At Intercom.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

Follow Josh on Twitter , check out his latest book, Outcomes Over Output ( US / UK / DE ), and keep up with his workshops and speaking engagements. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol & Bath. John Doerr on OKRs.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 25, 2020

The strategies the Disney Head of Innovation used to bring products customers love to life. Last year I was at a product management conference in Orlando and the keynote speaker discussed leadership at Disney. Now he is a keynote speaker and also deliverers workshops and ideation forums to companies around the globe.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In a recent poll, many of my fellow facilitators shared that the most challenging part of designing a workshop lies in picking the right methods and activities to apply, then pacing against them. In my experience, most workshops follow a common arc from beginning to end, with five very distinct chapters along the way. Hey, I get it!

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

How to successfully transition to a product management role Watch on YouTube TLDR Transitioning from one career to another is full of challenges, especially when the two fields seem vastly different. This diverse experience, she found, was not unlike working in a product environment.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Core Product Team Product teams come in different shapes and sizes. But all product teams I have seen consisted of the person in charge of the product—the product manager or Scrum product owner —and development team members.

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