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Pear VC is hiring for product managers. Its Wednesday again folks and we are in the middle of the week. Am I getting older or does it feel like time is really flying by? The end of the month will be here before you know it, so stop wasting your time trying to figure what you "should" message these hiring managers and steal my proven LinkedIn Message templates and Loom Video pitch scripts so you can put this job hunt behind you. #productmanagement #productmanagementjobs #productmanagementcareers #productmanagementtransition #productgym #speedtolead

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Marty Cagan joins Harry Stebbings on The Twenty Minute VC to share four major lessons on how to build truly exceptional product teams. Are you looking to build high-performance product teams? For our corporate and scale-up clients, we advise on everything from: ☑ bespoke salary benchmarking ☑ benefits advice ☑ guidance on equity packages ☑ recruitment process review ☑ candidate assessment ☑ selection processes ☑ job description advice Get in touch with me today to get started with your hiring plans.

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Marty Cagan joins Harry Stebbings on The Twenty Minute VC to share four major lessons on how to build truly exceptional product teams. Are you looking to build high-performance product teams? For our corporate and scale-up clients, we advise on everything from: ☑ bespoke salary benchmarking ☑ benefits advice ☑ guidance on equity packages ☑ recruitment process review ☑ candidate assessment ☑ selection processes ☑ job description advice Get in touch with me today to get started with your hiring plans.

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How to make a truly dreadful software onboarding experience: - use multiple different words for the same concept - make it necessary for a user to refer to a technical ID, but don’t reveal that ID anywhere within your UX - whatever you do, don’t test onboarding yourself - no, the back button does not work - try hard to be more clever than your customers - make sure there are at least three to five different concepts that your user must keep in mind just to onboard successfully; better if you can break them into twenty-seven sub-parts - make sure you have a truckload of documentation that is not easily searchable; a confluence dump should be fine

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Dear Product Leaders & Product Hiring Managers, What does your "Product Manager" hiring funnel look like? 1. Figure out the skills required in the ideal candidate. 2. Publish a polished JD in all the possible networks to invite applications. (Assume that you received 500s of applications) 3. Start filtering based on, college, country, experience, tools etc. Now eligible candidates left -100. 4. Start inviting the most eligible ones with some random filters for one-to-one screening for (30-45 minutes) because you can't interview 100s of eligible ones. 5. Behaviour / Product Sense / etc evaluation. 6. Take-Home Assignments. (~2 days of candidate + hiring manager review) After a few repetitions, you might end up with the top 3 candidates to choose from. Do you see the bottlenecks? #3 is simplest if you have a good enough ATS & a process in place. Step #4 sounds like a major bottleneck because 100s can never be interviewed. Also, don't you think that PM skills evaluation, in general, if understood is a simple process that can be templatised, automated and handed over to AI for filtering the best from the crowd? What is Skills Evaluation? Asking a series of right probing questions. Let me help you filter the best PM applicants faster. iaxov, the virtual interviewer based on VoiceChat-based conversational evaluation methodology is an AI agent built on OpenAI GPT-4o which can "reason in audio conversation format". Now you can interview all the 100s of eligible applicants with the help of this virtual interviewer & choose the best-performing ones for the next rounds. Check out the attached video demo to understand how it works. If that makes you curious, visit iaxov dot com to experience the best possible paradigm shift in PM hiring process. Ofcourse AI can expand the human limitations. We need to know, how it works and how to leverage the same. Earlier only a certain number of candidates could be interviewed personally. Let's scale it up. PS: This system will also be powerful because it is not biased like us humans & It doesn't interrupt the candidate in between i.e. it lets the candidate describe themselves. We've designed it that way. PPS: I bet you can't discard the critical evaluation done by iaxov. Try it yourself today. #HiringPMs #Automate #WithAI #TemplatizeTheProcesses #ApplyGoodFilters #LetTheCandidateExpressThemselves.

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You are applying to product manager jobs with strategies that haven't worked since 2022 and this is why you are still stuck on the job hunt. Save yourself the pain and aggravation and apply to product manager roles using these tactics instead. #productmanagement #productmanagementjobs #productmanagementcareers #productmanagementtransition #productgym

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I'd like to invite Product Leaders who would be interested in playing A Structured Devil's Advocate Role against iaxov Ideal target audience: Product leaders who are - Seriously hiring PMs at the moment, - Determined to put faith in a random human to positively impact the trajectory of their org, - Looking forward to AI as a saviour against human stupidity aka limitations. I am saying, with iaxov, it's easily possible to filter the top 10% PM candidates for most of the PM roles. iaxov is a virtual interviewer built on the agentic approach where the PM evaluation is templatized and automated to give predictable results. MVP is live. We can test it today itself. Jeff, the virtual interviewer can have voice chat conversations in a specific topic & is very dynamic. It doesn't interrupt the candidate in between. It is by design. After a half an hour conversation, it can rate a candidate on a scale of 5. Results we can expect? Top 10% candidates for given skills against which we review a set of candidates. Dear Product Managers looking for work opportunities immediately, help me to spread the word. PM filtering methods at the step 1 are often biased. IAXOV is your weapon to showcase who you are.🤺 #PMhiring #PMFiltering #PMevaluation #PMEvolution

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📕 Book - Full Guide For Product Management FROM $5 (Kindle) ➡ Don't lose this opportunity to learn more and have a guide to help you daily. 💖 Also, you are contributing to Legião da Boa Vontade because I will redirect 100% ALL/EVERYTHING of my book earnings to help poor people in Brazil. 🎓 What Will You Learn? ▶ Chapter 1: Who Can Be a Product Manager? ▶ Chapter 2: The Main Stages of the Product Management Process ▶ Chapter 3: How Works the Day-to-day Life of a Product Manager? ▶ Chapter 4: Agile 12 Principles and Values ▶ Chapter 5: Working with Agile Methodologies ▶ Chapter 6: What Is the Difference Between Vision, Product Strategy, and Product Tactics? ▶ Chapter 7: Learning How to Unravel a Mission to Achieve More Lasting Results ▶ Chapter 8: Responsibilities of Every Position in an Independent Squad ▶ Chapter 9: The Importance of Documentation ▶ Chapter 10: Tracking Your Team Performance ▶ Chapter 11: Leadership - What Are the Significant Differences Between a Boss and a Leader? ▶ Chapter 12: Data Fundamentals for a Product Manager ▶ Chapter 13: Do You Know What Are OKRs and How to Manage Them? ▶ Chapter 14: Progressive Rollout ▶ Chapter 15: Using Product Frameworks ▶ Chapter 16: Tips to Be a Great Product Manager ▶ Chapter 17: How Should a Product Manager Deal with Technical Debts? ▶ Chapter 18: Aligning Rules with Your Team and the Done Concept ▶ Chapter 19: What Is Design Thinking? ▶ Chapter 20: What Is the Relation Between a Job of an Artist and a PM? ▶ Chapter 21: A Real Example of Good/Bad Usability and the Pain that I Felt as a User ▶ Chapter 22: Bringing Happiness to Your Customers Won't Make Them Loyal Fernando Bello | Author of the Book "Find the Best - A Full Guide for Product for Management." ▶ https://lnkd.in/gbdhk-nv #leadership #productmanagement #designthinking #agilemethodologies #productvision #productstrategy #productdata #okrs #kpis #frameworks #businessrules #UX #customerexperience

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"One thing that always bugs me about (many) prioritization conversations is that teams often leave out the expected value curve of the work. “Level of effort” (or complexity, even) has never cut it for me because it assumes one fixed effort point. I am more concerned about the effort/time to impact curve because that (to me) more accurately represents product development. Instead of prioritizing features, you prioritize a focus area over time, and features are a subset of that decision. Therefore, before jumping in, discussing the hypothesized relationships between effort/time and value for the high-level mission can be very helpful (not matter what framework you are using)." https://lnkd.in/gJ2YVEpi

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🤔 Do I need coding skills to become a Product manager? 🤔 Do I need to attend a PM training school? 🤔 Do I need an MBA to become a PM? 🤔What skills do I need to get a PM job? If you have these questions, here are the answers. PS: If you want the link to the free resources to learn PM skills, comment "PM resources" and I will share. Here are 10 popular misconceptions of product management: 1. Product management = Project management  2. ⁠PMs need coding skills to excel 3. PMs need an MBA 4. ⁠PMs need lots of certifications 5. ⁠PMs need to learn SQL 6. ⁠ PMs are the Product CEO 7. ⁠ ⁠PMs just ship features 8. ⁠ ⁠PMs dictate solutions 9. ⁠⁠PMs have all the answers 10. ⁠PMs manage only products 1. Product management is project management:  Project management involves delivering products /projects on time and within budget. Product management solves customer problems to drive business impact. PMS often act as project managers in small teams. 2. ⁠Do you need to code to become a PM: You don't need to know how to code to become a PM. However, learning how to code is a plus. Instead, you need to understand how software is built. 3. You need an MBA to become a PM: You don't need an MBA to become a Product manager. Although an MBA will help stand you out when applying. 4. You need to have PM certifications: You don't need several PM certifications to land a PM role. PM certifications are great and would help you stand out. 5. You need to Learn SQL: SQL is a great PM skill. However, you don't have to learn SQL to land your first PM role. Most startups use analytic tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, etc. so you need to understand how to use them. SQL is especially useful in organizations with a large user base. 6. PMs are the CEO of the Product: PMs work closely with designers and engineers but don't have authority over them. We need to learn to influence team members using data and storytelling. 7. ⁠PMs ship features:  Product management isn’t all about shipping features. It’s about shipping features that drive business impact. 8. ⁠PMs dictate solutions:   Although PMs own the customer problems and solutions. Solutions are crafted in collaboration with design and engineering counterparts. 9. ⁠PMs have all the answers: PMs don’t need to have all the answers. We leverage customer insights and data to make decisions. 10. PMs manage only products: PMs also manage peoples’ expectations. We interact with stakeholders, customers, and team members to gather feedback, align priorities, and drive product success. Bonus resources on my newsletter https://bit.ly/4brlrSC 📍 How to become a great PM by Product School CEO Carlos 📍 What I learned in 10 years in product management by Amazon head of Product at Product School What unanswered product management questions do you have? Let me know in the comments. 

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Product Manager Interview Experience - Google The interview process: 1 recruiter phone screen 45 min product sense with a Product Manager 5 rounds with individual product managers spanning design, strategy, metrics, tradeoff, leadership, hypothetical. Spaced out across 2 months Interview questions: 1. [craft & execution + sense] - You are the PM of google flights and we need to monetize our strategy. What would you design? 2. [strategy + sense] - You are a PM at google and we are considering designing a lawn mower - what should we do? 3. [analytical + craft and execution] - You’re the PM on Search “snippets” which is an algorithmically derived tagline for organic content on search that appears under results to give people a sense of what the page is about. Say your engineering team comes to you with an improvement to the algorithm and wants to implement it - what would you do? Once you decide what to do - how would you implement this? Who would you work with? What if you implemented it and you saw paid content from advertisers take a hit? Then a couple behaviorals like why are you leaving Meta now? 4. [cross functional collaboration + craft & execution] this ended up being more strategy? — Lots of behavioral scenarios including “time you faced conflict” “time team disagreed” “what was the impact you landed” then a follow up on “you’re a PM at Snapchat - what is our 3 year strategy” 5. [googleyness & leadership] Why Google, Why are you leaving, Who are your closest ally’s on your team, What would happen if Google fired all of its PMs tomorrow? Then we broke out into a design —> design an experience as the PM of search for people to book flights who are traveling for the first time ever. Source: Glassdoor

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Man, I just love Reforge! Today, they launched what I believe is one of the best product management tools ever an extension that's a game-changer for PMs. Here’s what it does: 1. Understands what you’re trying to create, be it a PRD, Product Strategy, Hiring Plan, etc. 2. Provides insights based on the expertise of Reforge’s top-tier experts (think VPs and C-Level operators). 3. Assists in crafting various strategic documents like PRDs, Product Specs, Roadmaps, Launch Plans, and more. Just imagine experts like Elena Verna, Adam Fishman, and Andrew Chen being your Async product coaches. Thanks for launching this masterpiece Daniel Wolchonok & Brian Balfour! #technology #startups #ProductManagement #ProductManager #product 

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Very often, as a Product Manager, you will discover that there is only one framework you will ever need: Common sense! How to use this framework? Why do people avoid using it? Let's start by saying that making decisions as a Product Manager, especially early in one's career, is a challenge. There is pressure on you to make the right call and lead the product and teams behind it to success. There are lots of factors to consider: • senior stakeholders' expectations, • promises made, • risk of failure, • cost of the decision, • time pressure, • conflicts of interest • goals pressure,    and countless others, no wonder making decisions can become simple: SCARY. A decision-paralysis ensues and there seems to be no good option to take. Every choice has its drawbacks and each of the stakeholders lobbying for the best outcome for him/her has good arguments. Thus, what we as PMs and companies do is try to put the stress of  decision away by putting frameworks and processes in place. Of course, there is NOTHING wrong with it. If you are forced to estimate if  something is "Must have", "Should have", "Could have" and "Won't have" in MoSCoW framework, that makes the prioritization process a bit better. If you can't release a ticket without a Jira ticket verified by QA staff, this will prevent unknown, undocumented parts of code from landing in the production version of the product, thus limiting the risk of a failed release. That's all fine and good. However, as time goes on and companies build more tools and processes in the software development process, the whole ordeal becomes bloated and often absurd. In such a setup, changing a button's colour suddenly requires 3 months of work from a single developer (true story). This is where you come in - A Product Manager boldly using common sense as his/her guiding principle. This "framework" should trump all! Very often, it comes down to a combination of two elements: • courage to speak your mind, • focus on reaching your goal in a timely fashion. What do I mean by that? • Question when a simple outcome requires an unreasonable amount of effort • Step in to moderate a meeting that drags on and promises no outcome • Reject Stakeholder claims that are not supported by data • Add too many "Critical priorities" to "focus" at any given time • Ditch meetings where you are destined to say "thank you" at the end or simply: • Say "NO!" to anything that is just crazy in the eyes of a layman! Moreover, if the lack of common sense is a disease that is all over your company, there is only one cure: Leading by example. Moreover: Leading by example regardless of the pushback. Good luck! What are the examples of a dire need for common sense in your company? Tell me your story in the comments section. #productmanagement #productmanager #frameworks P.S. Pair up great Product Manager skills with common sense! Enroll today for my course at www . drbartpm . com :)

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Product School have curated a list of AI resources tailored to the needs of product managers, with a focus on real-world examples and practical guidance. The top 5 AI tools for product managers and product teams include: 👉 ChatGPT 👉 Google Bard 👉 Missive 👉 Tellent (formerly Recruitee) 👉 Kadoa Product Managers - what AI tool is in your top 5? https://lnkd.in/dwwtbRth #productmanagers #ai #tech #productmanagement

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Great visual of the evolution of a PRD throughout the Product development lifecycle

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State of the product job market: 1. There’s indeed a shift to hiring more senior PMs 2. Remote PM jobs are shrinking fast (down 35% from peak, and still shrinking) 3. More than one in five open PM roles is based in the San Francisco Bay Area (and still growing) 4. Bengaluru, India, is now the most popular location outside the U.S. for PM roles 5. The three most common hard skills that hiring managers are looking for from PMs are SQL, Jira, and experience with LLMs 6. The fastest-shrinking roles right now are diversity and scrum masters 7. Machine-learning engineers and data engineers are the most in-demand tech functions right now This analysis is based on exclusive data from two companies that I’m partnering with: 1. TrueUp, which tracks new job openings across all tech companies globally 2. Live Data Technologies, which tracks job changes (hires, departures, and promotions) across all companies in the U.S. Combining these two data sources reveals a whole new perspective on what’s really happening in the job market. Loads more surprises and insights in the full post: https://lnkd.in/gjArRAXm I’m going to continue tracking job market data and sharing regular updates on what’s changing in the product hiring market every few months or so. If there’s any data or questions you want us to dig into, please let me know in the comments.

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