product manager

“Hungry and high potential person who's dedicated to growing quickly can build more value for the business than a statusy or experienced person who is less high potential.”

“No one person we hire looks like a perfect sphere. Right? So what we look for actually is people who have clear spikes on one or two of those axes, and also is well-rounded, but what are their superpowers? It's one of the things we talk about when we bring som…”

“I will tell you that people who take the approach of being a mini CEO for a team are the ones who their teams wind up saying, why do we have to have a product manager on our team? Can't we do it without them? Because, you know, you can wind up accidentally bei…”

“So we've built a product marketing team that is Getting deeper and deeper. They're matched with product managers, and they're getting deeper and deeper into how our product works and understanding the value of it to really want the product managers to come tog…”

“The bad ones create a scenario where engineering doesn't feel like they have a vote in what gets built. And the, this 29% time that we're talking about here is one of my countermeasures to that, in that an engineering culture where they don't feel they can inv…”

“As the team grows, you sort of end up with sort of a coordination problem where not every product manager can speak with every CS rep, especially when you know, you have a dozen, maybe 15, you know, reps on the CS side and only a handful of product managers. A…”

“Somebody with good judgment seven times out of 10 will probably pick up on the right answer with less data.”

“I think the product people that I see struggle the most are the ones that just like, can't really make that like, well, here's all the options. And I'm like, well, it's your job to tell us what we're going to do. So what are we going to do?”

“The art of saying no is the best thing a product manager can do to actually eventually win in a product, right? Because you, typically have like one company. You're basically jamming their features. Oh, I'm paying you ten million dollars. You've got to do this…”

“I have a few people on my team that before they did product did sales roles, SE type role, like sales engineers. I think that's an amazing background to have because then you have an understanding of what does it really take to sell a product before you have, …”

“We've started having new product managers go through the sales engineering training. We just launched a new first meeting deck at the company and did a big training with our sellers. All the sellers have to certify, get certified on the first meeting deck. And…”

“Traditionally you've got solutions engineers, you've got customer success staff, sales, AE, they talk to customers. Maybe the SE here is a good idea. They communicate that to a product manager. Product manager talks to the engineering manager about that. Maybe…”

“I think the need for a lot of product managers is probably going to go down. If you hire really product oriented for deployed software engineers, then they're going to be increasingly making the decisions on what makes sense to build for the max Some number of…”

“I mean, Verkata was a thousand people and had two PMs.”

“There's definitely product managers who I think they're, they don't know enough about the technical side, which can be fine, but like can't really appreciate the pain engineering is going through and like what on call is like because like they've never really …”