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What processes do you have in place to incorporate customer feedback into your product roadmap?

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Ajay Waghray

Udemy Director of Product Management, Consumer Marketplace • August 26

We have a great podcast episode about this! To summarize, it’s less about explicit processes and more about tools in the toolbelt. It’s all about right tool, right job. The tools that come to mind for incorporating customer feedback are: 1. User research. This typically involves a full user re......Read More

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How do you measure your own success in your role? How much have those performance indicators evolved as you grew within your role?

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Guy Levit

Meta Sr. Director of Product Management • April 27

Generally, I am thinking of success in 3 dimensions: Vision, People and Execution. All three need to work well for a team to succeed over time. Early in your career Execution takes a bit of a higher focus. You can get your first 2-3 promotions by launching bigger and more complex projects. Howeve......Read More

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How do you know if you have validated the problem space enough to start dedicating engineering resources to building out the product?

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Ravneet Uberoi

Uber B2B Products • August 31

Before investing in engineering resources you want to build conviction around the following: 1. Is there a market need? Are you fulfilling a true gap in the market? 2. Do you have a differentiated vision to deliver on this need? 3. Is there willingness to pay? 4. Does the business model ma......Read More

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What does the career path for a product operations manager look like?

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Casey Flinn

Realtor.com Sr. Director, Product Operations • February 23

This is such a new field I think we are all still trying to figure it out together. However ... * Product Ops should be a feeder role into other product roles like Product Manager. There are so many barriers to entry into PM roles, If done right Product Ops can be a great bridge into Asso......Read More

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What are the most important soft and hard skills PMs can build to become successful in their field going forward?

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Apurva Garware

Upwork VP Product and GM • April 28

1. Ability to communicate well - Someone told me early in my career: The single most important PM skill he looks for when hiring a PM is communication. Communication is really a proxy for building trust, driving alignment, having healthy debates when there’s conflict and committing t......Read More

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What is the best way to get feedback to validate problems?

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Puja Hait

Google Group Product Manager • September 14

I would say there is no substitute to real user data. User research is table-stakes. But in my experience, not always representative of "actual" usage, so don't overindex on specifics. Rather validate if the problem statement is indeed important for the user segments. Because if it is, then ......Read More

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What skills or background should aspiring technical product managers consider?

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Vasanth Arunachalam

Meta Director, Technical Program Management • February 4

This response also applies to one of the other questions asked here - "What qualities stand out in some of the best TPMs you know?" I strongly believe that you can be a successful technical product manager regardless of your background, as long as you have the passion and growth mindset. It is n......Read More

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If I don't want to be a CPO or GM, what future executive role should I be shooting for as a PM?

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Tom Alterman

Notable Head of Product • May 17

We often say that growth at Asana is more like a climbing wall than a ladder—you can choose different paths, get stronger with each foothold, and truly enjoy your journey along the way. That is doubly true for product roles. You get exposure to so many parts of the business that you may realize y......Read More

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How do you manage a roadmap when company leadership cannot or will not provide guidance? (e.g. the C-team is all newly hired and don't know enough about the product or customers)

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Marvin Green

Splunk Director, Product Management • September 14

Thanks for the question! You, my friend, are in a coveted position. I would encourage you to shift your mindset and look at it as an opportunity to influence and educate your leadership team on what you know about your customers and create a vision and strategy for your product to share with them......Read More

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What are the top 3 most technical skills a Product Manager needs to have? How do you hone these skills and talk about them during interviews?

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Boris Logvinsky

Vanta VP Product • December 13

Perhaps a contrarian take, but technical skills aren't the most critical for the majority of PM roles out there, except for deeply technical products or platform positions. For the general PM role, it's much more important to demonstrate your ability to delve into customer problems, set strategy,......Read More