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app / uses
“And I'm sure if you want to, go to glassdoor.com where I used to work at Glassdoor, so had to throw that in there. You could search for associate product manager and I think you'll find a whole host of open roles that you might be able to apply to.”
app / uses
“Pando, we use quite a bit of Pando to help educate users within the product when we're launching new features.”
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19 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“When teams come in to present as part of our product reviews, we have a template that keeps reinforcing who's the target customer, who's the target user within that customer base, what are their needs and then how are we going to solve their needs better than any alternative that there is on the market. So, I think there's lots of different reinforcing mechanisms to that focus.”
02 / belief
“I think the first is this high-level three-year strategy and this is actually called at the company level.”
03 / belief
“I think the beauty of Calendly is that while we certainly have built features and functionality to support teams and departments, we got pulled there.”
04 / belief
“Are we going to be really trying to promote this? So, I think there's a lot of ancillary activities around the actual program itself that have to be taken into consideration to make sure that it is actually very successful.”
05 / belief
“I think another "more formal" way to get into PM is really by just directly applying to a junior PM role where there's no expectation of any sort of experience.”
06 / belief
“The rest of the interview, they're trying to tell you all the wonderful things they did and all the accomplishments they had. And so, I think the rawer the answer in terms of how bad it was and why, the better.”
07 / belief
“I think I got introduced to you by Harry from the 20VC, I think. But if not, either way, I'll cross promote his podcast, which is a great one.”
08 / belief
“I think at the end of the day, the real benefit of the structure is really to say at the end, we want to be thinking about everything we're doing through the lens of the end-to-end user experience.”
09 / belief
“Let's see, when I joined about two years ago, I think the company was about 150 people and I think we're about 600 now. And then the product team, there were about 15 product managers and designers when I joined again about two years ago, and I think we're around 60 this year.”
10 / belief
“Since then, we've grown the group to about 23 heads of products and CPOs and expanded the charter a bit, which I think is interesting to help product leaders not just be successful in their current role, but also how to think about setting them up for success in the role after this.”
11 / preference
“How do you use data and AB testing to make decisions? So, I think that kind of consumer mentality and how you approach product, I then have brought with me to Calendly, which is really a blend of both, right?”
12 / evaluation
“So, we had a very broad user base. And what that means is that product managers in particular are I think had a really hard time prioritizing.”
13 / preference
“When I was at Box, I was a product manager on the enterprise team and I spent a ton of time in the field and I don't know how I would possibly know how to have what to have built or how to build it to solve the needs of our customers if I didn't have that close relationship with the sales team and be able to lean on them because they're talking to, 10X of them were customers that I was able to ever talk to within any given week, really lean on them to be the voice of the customer to help me make the best product decisions that I could.”
14 / recommendation
“Pando, we use quite a bit of Pando to help educate users within the product when we're launching new features.”
15 / evaluation
“I think I touched on culture because I think that's pervasive across the entire organization.”
16 / recommendation
“You wouldn't necessarily want to bring on a bunch of sales folks who are at Oracle who are heavy in selling into CIOs in the early days because that's just not who you're the buyer's going to be.”
17 / commitment
“This starts again, I sound like a broken record, but with this really clear strategy around where we're going over the next couple of years and then we take that and we break that down into what are the most important things we need to do as a company this year in order to be able to make the right progress against that strategy.”
18 / evaluation
“I think the first is, when you're making that transition from PLG to adding in the sales led motion, because you're starting from PLG, it's tends to be much more inbound in nature.”
19 / recommendation
“And I'm sure if you want to, go to glassdoor.com where I used to work at Glassdoor, so had to throw that in there. You could search for associate product manager and I think you'll find a whole host of open roles that you might be able to apply to.”