General Manager

3 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2023 by Saumil Mehta · across every show →

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Aug 31, 2023
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Mehta: Standalone market products deserve their own GM and P&L
“This is a standalone product in the industry at large. And there are large incumbent behemoth companies out there that run this thing as a standalone product. And there's an entire company outside of Square. And so that should have its own GM. It should have i…”
Saumil Mehta Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 37:59 An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
Aug 31, 2023
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Mehta: Group products by audience coherence to prevent roadmap conflict
“It makes logical sense that you would have all of those products basically under the same GM's remit, because when they are under different remits, you may have cognitive dissonance in roadmaps. So Put them all under one GM. So payroll, team management, shifts…”
Saumil Mehta Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 36:47 An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
Aug 31, 2023
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Mehta: Assign product units to GMs and shared platform surfaces to MDLs
“And so the dimensions we evaluate on are product or platform, and if it's product oriented, then that looks like a GM role. If it's going to be a little bit more platform or product platform is what I would characterize it. That looks like an MDL role. And so …”
Saumil Mehta Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 32:51 An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
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