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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

The product manager’s journey from Individual Contributor to Chief Product Officer Watch on YouTube TLDR Kimberly Bloomston’s journey from individual contributor to Chief Product Officer at LiveRamp demonstrates the key transitions and skills needed at each level of product management leadership.

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Here’s What You Missed at TPG Live: Beyond IC & Introducing Product

The Product Guy

Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. Moving Beyond the Individual Contributor: Elevating Your Impact as a Product Leader Transitioning from an IC role to product leadership is a defining moment in your PM career.

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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

Her team is buried in tickets, and customer satisfaction is slipping. Break the Story Into Moments That Matter Once you have your user and your why, map out their journey. Share it with leadership. Run it by a few customers. Whats frustrating them? What triggers their search for something better?

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Nishants visionary leadership, industry knowledge, and commitment to innovation make him a driving force in shaping the future of software product management. Passionate about the field, Nishant has immersed himself in research at Capitol Technology University since 2022, exploring the challenges, trends, and solutions in product management.

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Leadership without management: Expanding our Product Design career path

Intercom, Inc.

The solution requires companies to institute two parallel career growth paths — one that focuses on people management and another that focuses on leadership as an individual contributor , often titled as staff or principal designers. Senior designers create design solutions that drive customer satisfaction and strategic outcomes.

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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

Bugs can be valued in terms of quality outcomes like reducing support needs or improving user satisfaction. However, with the structure described here, it’s possible to quantify and visualize these shifts over time, so that we can show where the problem is and discuss it with leadership.

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Problem Solving as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. As a product manager, my goal is to ensure customer satisfaction, long term success of my product and contributing to the success of my organization.