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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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

I could write one more story about stepping beyond product design into roles like product management, service design (or CX), or even bigger leaps into academia, research, design for government, or, who knows, politics. (If There are also ways to create momentum within a supportive role — like establishing and then managing a design system.

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Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Consider this: Imagine being able to rally a cross-functional team behind your vision, to convince stakeholders to support an initiative, or to simply inspire colleagues to embrace a change – all without a single direct report. Some say you need a vision. Others say a clear goal. I like the idea of what Stephen M.

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Productside

APRIL 4, 2025

For the next spotlight in our Women in Product Management series , Nicole Tieche sat down with Orly Stern recently promoted General Manager of Business Applications at Payoneer and former VP of Product Management. Lets start with how you got into product management. He asked if I knew what product management was.

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Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Unfortunately, 8 out of 10 executives… say that middle managers and emerging leaders lack these vital business acumen skills. 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. Sometimes HR managers hire the wrong people Why is that?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. If the vision resonates with you, then this will help you do a great job, especially when the going gets tough. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Collaboration comes in many flavors, from small informal working sessions and group critiques to full-blown workshops. What are product design workshops? Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.”

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:00]

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog? At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog. Two Templates.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Consider sharing the input beforehand when you run a strategy workshop so that people can prepare for the meeting. Listen to this article: [link]. 1 Set an Objective. What’s the meeting about?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. Slice Out Releases.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. Design workshops, like persona, jobs-to-be-done or customer journey workshops can help the team to get a better understanding of customer’s pains and needs.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. Product discovery + delivery: Clarifying role of PMs and PDs Setting up a new role to deal with day-to-day Training the team to embrace Product Discovery: Several workshops with PMs and PDs Small experiment with the process and some tools (e.g. Team dynamics and structure.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup.

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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] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Product strategy workshops are facilitated sessions where key stakeholders come together to define the vision, goals, and roadmap for a product. The workshops help align the team on strategic…

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How do you collectively build your marketing persona through a workshop? Preparing for a Persona Workshop. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. As a product manager, you usually should take responsibility for these. Post Workshop: put Your Product Persona to use.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. You have this grand vision. Stephanie: We set it up as individual goals for all product managers to do continuous discovery.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Head of Product Role in a Nutshell A head of product manages a group of product people —individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product managers or product owners. Second, develop the product management team. Third, develop the organisation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. Then think of the vision for each product as the ultimate “operational goal/outcome” customers get from that product.

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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. Management and Coaching Anyone who has read ‘Inspired’ knows that Marty is a big believer in coaching.

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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. Having a dedicated career ladder for product managers allows them to see their path to the C-Suite.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. A great way to engage the key stakeholders and development team members is to run a collaborative workshop, be it online or in the office. Enter the Cycle. Final Thoughts.

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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. He is currently working on a new book project, co-authoring Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders. ” What a great quote.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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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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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Product managers, there’s never going to be a time where customer retention priorities and wallet share growth opportunities have more overlap, i.e., not at odds. Treat this as a collaborative product management team exercise, not an exercise for each product manager. Think about it. If you’re one of them read on.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. While it’s helpful to be aware of the indicators that may be commonly used for the type of product you manage, it would be a mistake to blindly adopt them. Less is More.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

What’s our product vision?” If you’re the head of products or strategy in a B2B organization, you’re constantly fielding the “product vision and strategic roadmap” questions. The narrative for your product vision and strategic portfolio roadmap should be customer-centric, not product-centric. “What’s on our strategic roadmap?”

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The B2B Product Manager October 2020. This month we look at the impact on product management and product marketing. Join me for a 3-hour live (web meeting) demo workshop on November 12th. Enjoy the B2B Product Manager October issue. Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Product Management Playbook.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2024

As a product management veteran with over 20 years of leadership experience, I’ve worked with numerous organizations looking to transform their approach to building and delivering products. These product leaders come from various roles – from CPOs and product managers to designers, engineers and sales people.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. Time management: You have learnt to effectively manage your time, and you are able to practice sustainable pace.

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