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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Aruna Thapa, Senior Director of Product Strategy at IQVIA

280 Group

For our next installment of our Women in Product Management Series, I interviewed Aruna Thapa , Senior Director of Product Strategy at IQVIA Technologies. A great place to start is what led you to Product Management ? Is there advice you have particularly for women considering a move into Product Management?

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive an Economic Downturn

The Product Coalition

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. You need to have a product strategy. There are many ways to crisp up your strategy.

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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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Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok.

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Strategic Debt Is the Silent Killer of Startups

The Product Coalition

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. Startups also have a silent killer. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. For startups, this can be the end.

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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Aspects which are more on the human skills end of the spectrum and vastly different from being a Product Manager. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”