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Mamuna Oyofo, MBA
Shopify VP of Product • February 9
My personal take is that when I am speaking with strong product candidates, I can see a few qualities shine through in their story. For me, those are: 1. They are constant Learners/curious They are constantly asking questions and actively listening. They are readers and constant consumers of i......Read More
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Adrianne Wang Martinson
Airbnb Head of Product, China Platform • May 12
There is no doubt that retaining top talent is critical to any organization not only because of the value top talent brings, but also because it takes time to find and ramp up a new hire. While establishing a new team, hiring the right person who is a good fit for the team and the company contrib......Read More
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Mamuna Oyofo, MBA
Shopify VP of Product • February 9
1. Understand what about product management is interesting to you 2. Research roles and opportunities that speak to what you find interesting 3. Identify the gaps in your skills or experience 4. Fill those gaps :) Take a course, read, volunteer to build something. 5. Network and build a grou......Read More
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Mamuna Oyofo, MBA
Shopify VP of Product • February 9
There is definitely a fine line here. Every decision cannot be data driven and will likely be informed to some extent BUT part of the excitment of product management is leaning on that intuition. In some cases, you will have data to back up your assumptions and in others you will not. Every situa......Read More
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Boris Logvinsky
Vanta VP Product • December 12
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
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Julian Dunn
GitHub Senior Director of Product Management • April 3
It can vary from not-terribly-technical to quite technical. This depends on how complex your product is and how much the nuances of that complexity matter to the user's success with it. As an example, GitHub Actions has sophisticated features like matrix builds for parallelization, required and r......Read More
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Melissa Ushakov
GitLab Group Manager, Product Management • November 22
I'm a Group Manager of Product at GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/product/product-management-leadership/#group-manager-product-gmp. I am a manager for the Product Managers for the Plan stage at GitLab. Each product manager on my team has engineering, UX, and quality counterparts that......Read More
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Melissa Ushakov
GitLab Group Manager, Product Management • November 22
One common mistake I have seen is having a monetization model that does not scale. Services and customization on top of open-source software will only scale as much as your workforce can. Having paid features on top of open source software and a tie ring philosophy that can be easily explained is......Read More
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Melissa Ushakov
GitLab Group Manager, Product Management • November 22
I think that the whole team should strive to build a product that end users love. I love when there's passion on the team and ideas about what to build. When you are building a product for a persona that is close to you, it's important to gather data from end users to ensure that you have a compl......Read More
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Julian Dunn
GitHub Senior Director of Product Management • April 3
Lots of changes are happening, chiefly motivated by the end of free money (i.e. post-ZIRP era) and the rise of AI. I know everyone has probably heard these two themes a million times before so let me break it down specifically for this area. The end of free money has been talked about a lot on t......Read More
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