Category: Career
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 →
7 Tips From Product Leaders to Kick off 2019
The beginning of the new year marks an exciting time for many product organizations. New goals, new roadmaps, new initiatives…. Read →
The Introverted Product Manager
Can introverts be successful as product managers? No matter what you may have heard, we believe the answer to this… Read →
How to Foster a Culture of Gratitude
As we head into a new year, we tend to talk more about gratitude. We talk about what we’re grateful… Read →
6 Key Hard Skills in Product Management
You hear a lot about the need for soft skills in product management, but product managers also need hard skills…. Read →
Why Soft Skills Are a Hard Requirement for Product Management Career Growth
When we think about the skills required for just about any role, it’s only natural to first think about technical… Read →
How Product Managers Should Deal with Different Stakeholder Types
The product management community often uses the term stakeholder management as shorthand for how product managers communicate with executives and… Read →
7 Horrible Things to Say to Executive Stakeholders
Your executive stakeholders have life-and-death power over your products. In most companies, they have the final vote about which product… Read →
5 Product Management Career Mistakes to Avoid
Product management roles demand the ability to think about both strategy and tactics. Ironically, the most common product management career… Read →
How to Land a Product Management Job at Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Apple
How do I get hired as a product manager at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, or other top companies? This is… Read →
Product Managers: 5 Tips for Dealing with Different Personality Types
If you were running a focus group for a new product and you knew a few members of the group… Read →
How to Be a Well-Rounded Product Manager
Alaska Airlines used to have an unofficial policy of temporarily rotating employees into different areas of the company every couple… Read →
4 Themes to Take Away From Mind the Product 2018
Mind the Product has certainly established itself as a premier event for product people to connect, share, and learn from… Read →
