Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

” and “Whose opinion does the leadership team value most?” I’m curious—what experiences have most shaped your philosophy toward product leadership?” ” This led to an engaging brainstorming session with the CEO about product vision. ” The answers might surprise you.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

There’s no way to succeed without talking to customers. Photo by Martin Damboldt Whenever I tell product people that they must talk to customers, someone brings up the famous Henry Ford quote about faster horses: “ If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” But wait, it doesn’t stop there!

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

It allows you to share the burden of routine work (especially if engineers aren’t stepping in), while also combining your efforts and knowledge to help shift the design focus from UI execution toward customer experience and more strategic roles. Whether it’s product management or customer experience, neither is a final destination here.

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Productside

APRIL 4, 2025

Discussing product leadership and challenges, Orly shares her unconventional path into product, the lessons she learned turning around a failed product, and how she builds high-performing teams in global tech companies. That was a critical turning point in my career. Orly: Leadership starts and ends with people.

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Gainsight

MAY 29, 2025

Every year at Pulse , we recognize industry leaders who have made significant contributions to the fields of customer success (CS), customer education, product experience, community, and beyonddriving innovation and transforming the way businesses engage with their customers. Congratulations, Alkami!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. they’re in a Product leadership role. Keep an eye out for events, podcasts, blogs, and more!

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

His answer intrigued me because it identified a clear pain point that isn’t getting enough attention. Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

The big vision was clearly overwhelming – we wanted to change how customers interact on the site; we wanted to build the brand new structure to support a new type of customers, to build the internal admin functions to facilitate internal efficiency; and we wanted to holistically rethink everything to link all the above components.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. A good vision answers: Whose world are you trying to change?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Third is setting goals.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ Asking the customer to use a service that makes decisions for them means asking them to trust you.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction. Share Leadership and Credit. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock). Include Engineers in Product Decisions.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At its core, stakeholder management is about building strong relationships, fostering trust, and ensuring that everyone is working toward the same product vision. This can make managing expectations difficult, especially when dealing with senior leadership. Present customer feedback, market research, or case studies to make your case.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

In a recent survey, our team let us know design career paths and advancement were pain points. Invision’s Design Team Maturity Report and the book Org Design for Design Orgs also grounded us with visions of what healthy, high-performing teams can do. Invent the future of interaction design.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself. Of course, in the process, the vision might be changed or refined, but it most likely wouldn’t be reinvented altogether. This should be your first step into product strategy.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They already had an established product and regular rituals that helped them consider their users. Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

Customer journey maps, story mapping, impact mapping—there are lots of ways to externalize your thinking. Principle 1: Encourage Teams to Discover Opportunities through Continuous Customer Touch Points. Discovering opportunities through continuous customer touch points is one of the guiding principles of continuous discovery.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Presenting or rejecting a well-researched product or design change to the HiPPO is a common pain point for product managers. Maybe they saw a competitor do something they wanted to try out instead, or they really aren’t seeing the vision of your product change. But there’s more to it. Enjoy the video.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Userpilot can help product leaders to analyze the user needs to make decisions on the product development strategy.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. She says that you can only create significant value for the business by solving the big problems for the users. Understanding User Needs is key.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Benefits of a product strategy framework include better alignment between product development and business goals and improved user satisfaction. Start by defining product vision and mission to give clarity to your team and determine the right direction to move. Analyze in-app user satisfaction using tools like NPS and CSAT surveys.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Customer feedback can be a goldmine of valuable insights for SaaS companies seeking growth. TL;DR Meagan Glenn, Senior Program Manager (Success and Product) at Lavender, shares valuable insights on leveraging customer feedback in an interview with Userpilot. Customer feedback should come in daily from various sources.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Customer experience strategies shouldn’t be created in a vacuum, but it’s hard to know how to create a CX strategy that exceeds customers’ expectations without first understanding them. We hosted a CX-focused panel at this year’s Customer Love Summit. How do you gather customer feedback today? Christy: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Sales and marketing leaders select a list of accounts that best align to your ideal customer profile, or your company’s most valuable buyers. A survey from ITSMA and ABM Leadership Alliance found that 45% of marketers report seeing at least double the ROI compared to traditional marketing. Source: ITSMA and ABM Leadership Alliance ).

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

If your product doesn’t satisfy customer needs, its future looks bleak. You won’t be able to retain your users or convert them into paying customers. You will learn about different types of customer needs and how to identify them. You will learn about different types of customer needs and how to identify them.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2023

One of the first things you should do in your new role is to take stock of the current state of the product and its market, which means getting to know your team, customers, and competitors and analyzing any available data on product performance and market trends.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But I’ve found that by building relationships, setting the future vision, and having faith in your capabilities as a product manager you can carve out a place for yourself. Get Your Vision, Problem Definition and Job-to-be-done Right. I took a long time to understand, and then evangelize, the vision for our team.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. To reframe things, only about one out of three feature ideas actually come directly from customers… you know, the people who are paying money to use your products.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A well-defined product strategy contains four key elements – the product vision , target customers , goals , and product initiatives. To create an effective product strategy, you must first study the market to understand your target users and make sense of market trends.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We also look at the levels of seniority among product managers as well as the skills they need to lead successful teams and build products that delight customers. A strategic product manager is responsible for developing long-term product vision and strategy. Product vision. Let’s get right to it. What does it involve?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A successful roadmap should include information on UX vision , strategy, goals, themes, milestones, and a timeline. UX research aims to identify specific user pain points. Common research techniques include user behavior analysis, surveys, and interviews. improving retention). UX roadmap. Source: Roadmunk.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 13, 2020

However at Stripe, Product Ops’ primary focus is on providing value for the user. They strengthen customer feedback loops, and scaling product knowledge within the company. Vision and Strategy: PMs own the product vision, defining the north star that keeps teams aligned and focused on a common goal. You need Product Ops!

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

A traditional product manager prioritizes understanding customer needs and market trends. To thrive as a technical PM, you need to have essential skill such as knowledge of Agile methodologies, familiarity with software engineering principles, leadership and communication. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. They lack vision and lead nowhere. The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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