Product Managers at Work

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As we grow our careers as PMs, sometimes we apply for roles with a clear scope and standardized interview processes (like Facebook RPM or a generalist…
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I’m always thinking about how to be a better partner to my tech lead (TL) and how to distill my learning into a repeatable formula I can adapt to any…
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As a PM, you'll get assignments such as: "Machine learning is getting exponentially better at predicting outcomes. How do you shape this into an…
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As PMs at Facebook and Tesla, we encountered many ambiguous challenges: from broad ones such as defining the strategy for expanding Facebook Groups to…
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The job of a product manager is to make good decisions. The most difficult decisions are the ones that require tough tradeoffs. In a perfect world, all…
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And 10x your intuition for setting the right metrics for your team.
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Most people think that the skills you learn as a PM at Facebook, Google, and Tesla will arm you with skills to succeed anywhere. The truth, however, is…
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Here we share some traps we avoided and things we learned along the way to successfully managing an ML product.
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When you run into a challenge working with others, it’s easy to get frustrated and jump to thinking it comes from incompetence - e.g. maybe it seems…
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When I first started at Google, I thought the role of a product manager was simply to define the product vision and then work with my team to execute on…
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The common narrative is that a product manager needs to have certain qualities and operate in a certain way in order to succeed, but the fact of the…
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Early in my career, I* noticed the allure of % goals. If I had to increase restaurant reviews, then % of users who write restaurant reviews sounded like…
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