Head Of Product
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Evans: AI product heads cannot set roadmaps because research breakthroughs dictate capabilities
“What that's saying is the head of product isn't setting the product strategy and has no idea what the product is going to be in a month's time. Because there's going to be stuff coming out of the research lab that they don't know about, that the research lab d…”
Gupta: Product leaders should harness a founder's power to drive key initiatives
“Now, I think the way to use that effectively as a head of product is to recognize that they have that power to figure out how to use that power to get the things done that you know are best for the company.
So I always think about, like, I have all the people …”
Lemkin: In top B2B orgs, heads of product are deeply involved in sales
“I think in the best run B to B organizations that I've worked with in my own as well, the great, at least the head of product, the VP of products are deeply involved in sales.”
Berner: CS Reporting to Product Creates Unnatural Organizational Alignment
“From my perspective, I think that's challenging because customer success is core to the go-to-market motion and aligning CS at minimum to the revenue team and putting it in line with marketing creates a flywheel for your go-to-market team in a way that I think…”
Rathi: Portfolio resource allocation is product strategy, not tactical PM prioritization
“So I don't think it's a tactical prioritization product manager call. It really is a product strategy call, and the conversation that needs to happen Is between say the head of product and the CEO or even like the leadership. If I gave you a hundred focus poin…”
Lemkin: Hire a Head of Product for complexity, not quality
“Where you want to hire a head of product usually as a founder is not to make the product better. It's when the product gets too complicated.”
Founders spiking in a function must still hire functional leadership
“That's where people can sometimes go wrong, is they'll think, I'm a product founder, I'm not hiring a head of product, and that's not the right way to think about it in my mind or I'm an amazing marketer, I'm not gonna hire a head of marketing. You're just hir…”
Itwaru: Mature product ops teams become strategic advisors to product leadership
“It's a person or the people, the group of individuals who are strong partners to the product manager. And then for more mature product ops teams, end up people being more strategic advisors to the head of product. So your CPO or your VP, again, when it comes t…”
Ipsen: Product searches driven merely by board pressure are doomed from inception
“Like that's so often what I see is, you know, the board's telling me we need to hire a head of product and, you know, I don't necessarily think that we do, or I'm not exactly sure what we need in this role. And so whenever you're starting a search in that rega…”
Ipsen: Startups favor 'Head of' titles over C-level titles until Series C/D
“A lot of startups at this point are almost allergic to C titles or VP titles or are just more title agnostic than I've seen in the past. So you see a lot more of these head of's and that is sector leaders up until probably C plus or D stage. And then you get t…”
Head of product is the hardest startup role to hire in Europe
“So head of product is probably the hardest role to find in Europe.”