Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Finding the right opportunity or the perfect candidate can be challenging in todays competitive market. PM with a technical background and a strong product sense. Technical fluency to understand, communicate, and drive impact in highly technical and fast-moving problem spaces. PMs with no technical background.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I am leveraging my product background in both coaching and advising AI-driven startups. Pivot 1: CRM Strategist to User Experience Researcher Key Strategies: Leverage Your Unique Background : My communications skills became my secret weapon in translating complex tech concepts to marketing stakeholders. to offer 24/7 coaching services.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

She advises executives around the world regarding product management. Andrea Saez – Writer, Speaker, Advisor | Sr PMM @ Product School. Andrea has 15+ years of experience in Product Management and Marketing, from SMBs to large enterprises and educational organizations such as Product School.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

If you’re looking to scale up your SaaS business , you may have considered hiring a marketing agency. Rather than hiring a bunch of marketing people in-house and figuring out a process from scratch, it can sometimes be more cost-efficient to hire an agency, plug your business model into their existing systems, and press play.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover the responsibilities of a product analyst, the skills needed in the current job market, and the prerequisites. Product analysts research to find market trends, collect and analyze data, track and assess product performance , understand product requirements, and report insights to stakeholders.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

But to the grandmasters, they were able to understand what moves led to this position and were able to cycle through next moves and their potential outcomes. We ignore the advice of Chip and Dan Heath where they advise us to avoid “whether or not” decisions (i.e. We want to be continuously seeking opportunities in our market.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Careers in programming are a good springboard as are those in sales, customer service, or marketing.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

In the same report, Gartner sounded a note of caution, advising leaders to connect use cases to KPIs to ensure that any AI project adds value by creating new revenue or better customer experiences. Right now, enterprise companies are thinking about how they can scale proven use cases with less technical knowledge to drive business goals.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million. Why Product Needs to Care. How Will GDPR Affect Your Customers?

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter into a new product management position in a new company. You just landed into a new product management position. As a product manager, you need to get fast into all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc. I would advise differently.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

To create a successful product strategy, you’ll need to research your market , identify your target audience, and define your unique value proposition. Perform market research and define your target audience A successful product strategy is built on a solid foundation of customer understanding. What market gaps have they left?

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market. Or it could be ensuring open product, design, and technical decisions get resolved in an efficient manner.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To enable data sharing for team collaboration, you can use growth tools for data management , data sharing across teams, and analytics dashboards for different departments regardless of technical expertise. This allows you to create positive user experiences. You can then identify trends and use them to map out the user journey.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As product managers, we bear the responsibility for bridging the two worlds – technical and business, and need to influence both. Change must happen on two levels across the organization: Technical – Roles and responsibilities must be understood, accepted, and adopted. As a result, specializations in roles developed.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world On asking for help (even when you really don’t want to) Part 2: Time management techniques that actually work Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post. Public company market caps are from 8/30/24.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But with such a saturated market, which tool should you choose? Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding." " That translates into more product experiments , and a more empowered product marketing team overall. This article is here to help you answer that question. " Onboarding milestones.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit. Transcript.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. I stuck around for another year as an advisor, so I really saw extreme growth in both of those cases. I do think it’s been a net positive though.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

If you look at just a few examples of product owner open positions on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and Indeed, you’ll notice a lot of differences in requirements, experience, skills , qualifications, and responsibilities. Once you become a scrum product owner, you are in a decision-making position. Otherwise, skip ahead.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. She is my blog editor and also helps out with a variety of content marketing activities for Product Talk. Is it technically feasible?” There will be no market for it. I’m joined today by Hope Gurion. Thanks for joining.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If you're new to product marketing , you'll probably need to acquire a certain degree of familiarity with Pendo product tours. In fact, we would encourage you to have a good look at all the user onboarding software products on the market to see how they compare to each other. It's centered on the customer's screen.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.    UNFILLED PRODUCT POSITIONS There are thousands of talented product folks between gigs, looking for their next adventure.    With lots of gray space between the two. Share job links widely. 

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Product marketers often find that a good product tour ensures that more new users activate. Great product tours have a positive effect on just about every important SaaS metric that you can possibly imagine.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

You learned about other roles where your experience in CS can be a springboard for those positions. If you have these in your toolbox, in addition to other skills you learn along the way, there is no doubt that you can rise to the next level of CS or transition into another position. . However, you aren’t sure of the path to get there.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. Don’t hire me as a PM if you are not ready to hear hard truths about the market, the real expectations of customers (hint: they don’t *need* your product), or the difficulties of the teams. I’m not speaking for all Product Managers but here is my list.

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Whether in the pool or already on the market, a new product or service with plenty of ideas will constantly require recurring feature prioritization. As a consequence, the functional and reliable features still have some technical hiccups which would need more work.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

We have more collateral to share than ever before, our salespeople are supported not only by marketing teams to drive engagement and lead generation, but also sales enablement teams to help ensure that they always have the right examples, user cases, demos, decks and proposal templates. I could go on, but you get the picture.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Congratulations, you just landed a new product management position. I am very happy to share what I have done and am still doing to get the best out of the first weeks in order to enter the position in the best efficient way. I would advise you differently.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

Considering that none of the established innovation consulting companies are cheap, you want to make sure your return on the investment is positive. . As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s just like they don’t talk to users, which means they don’t find product-market fit. And if they don’t find product-market fit, nothing else really matters. ” Motivations can be diverse: solving technical problems, proving oneself, having a grand mission, or simply wanting to be successful.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

The best walkthrough software on the market is Userpilot. That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Other good options include Appcues and Userguiding.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. Otherwise, highlight how you have helped those who are adjacent to PMs: product designers, tech sales, business operations, or product marketing. More Execution Questions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. Otherwise, highlight how you have helped those who are adjacent to PMs: product designers, tech sales, business operations, or product marketing. More Execution Questions.

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