Category: Career
How Product Teams can Build Trust with Internal Teams
For a product manager to be successful, they must be viewed as both credible and trustworthy. Without that confidence, product… Read →
From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google
It’s been nearly five years since Sundar Pichai took the reins as CEO of Google. How did this relatively unknown… Read →
3 Reasons Product Managers Quit (and How to Prevent It)
When an employee leaves a company, there’s more walking out the door than a salary and a nameplate. They take… Read →
How to Get Budget for Product Management Tools
You can be a successful product manager without any tools. Unlike a maintenance worker, a carpenter, a lumberjack, or a… Read →
Leaving a Job? 5 Keys to Leaving a Positive Last Impression
I’ve spent the past year as Marketing Coordinator at ProductPlan learning new skills, developing friendships, and working closely with a… Read →
What is the Ideal Product Team Size?
Getting the green light to hire product managers is almost always a good sign. It means your company is growing,… Read →
How to Negotiate Your Product Management Salary
Salary negotiation isn’t easy in any profession, but it can be particularly tricky in product management. Whether it’s because some… Read →
How to Measure Product Manager Performance
Product management is a role largely comprised of soft skills and strategy, which, at first glance, would make it difficult… Read →
Treat Your Product Team Like a Sports Team, Not a Family
Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. While organizations have always had culture, the long-held… Read →
Creating a Talent Funnel for Finding Great Product Managers
According to leading research on technical recruiting, the interview process for the Internet and Tech industry currently averages more than… Read →
12 Traits of High-Performing Product Teams
As a product team grows from one or two individual contributors to a larger, more diverse team, it takes some… Read →
Transitioning from Managing Products to Managing Product Managers
Considering the leap from being a product manager to a leadership role, but not sure what’s involved in managing product… Read →
11 Key Competencies to Look for When Interviewing Product Management Candidates
Hiring a new product manager is definitely more art than science. There aren’t many quantifiable indicators of future success, as… Read →
Should You Structure Your Product Team Like Amazon, Spotify, or Something Else Entirely?
Effectively scaling a successful product team requires more than hiring additional product managers. You also need to consider the big… Read →
The Rise of Product Ops: the New Discipline Powering Product Excellence
As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban,… Read →
6 Critical Steps for Onboarding Product Managers
So, you’re scaling your product management team. Congratulations! Your company is clearly doing something right if you need to bring… Read →
3 Key Habits of the Modern Product Manager
The product management landscape is constantly in flux. And today, it’s evolving faster than ever before. Agile principles have infiltrated… Read →
When is it Time to Scale the Product Team?
When you find yourself wondering if it’s time to scale your product team, you have what we’d call a high-quality… Read →
