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I have been a product manager for a decade now, both in established firms and startups. From my experience, startups need to have the founder and engineering le
by bg24 8y ago
I have been a product manager for a decade now, both in established firms and startups. From my experience, startups need to have the founder and engineering leader in lockstep, and the experience to productize the vision. PM role in a startup is more about wearing multiple hats. If you do not have a solid engineering leader and right engineering experience to build the product, PM job is simply not worth staying.
In contrast, PM leadership role becomes crucial in an established product, or even a startup entering into the growth trajectory.
PM responsibilities vary wildly. Being able to sell, build relationship, be at the right place at the right time etc. decides your success more than your inbound skills like product requirements, planning etc.
- Brajeshwar 8y agoVery true. Right now, I'm helping a Startup on a massive growth curve with multiple products, new market category, new geographies, et al. There are a bunch of Product Managers, while a few good engineering leaders are leading the tech team. My role is basically to groom the PMs to mostly talking to customers, say NO to the engineers' cool feature they want to build if they are not yet validated with customers, say NO to the C-Suite including the CEO of all their fancy cool business ideas they want to execute. Continue with mini-experiments, and build a process to do such repeatedly and rinse them well. Reduce the release cycle and hopefully automate pretty much everything.