Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Are you curious to learn the top finance product manager skills recruiters are looking for? Finance PMs occupy a unique position within the world of product management. Since finance PMs are responsible for a specific niche of products, recruiters who scout for them look for a particular set of skills in candidates.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

These require the relevant marketing, sales, support, legal, finance, and operations know-how—depending on the type of product and the company structure. Steve Haines, for example, writes in The Product Manager’s Desk Reference that product team members might come from marketing, finance, sales, operations, legal, and manufacturing (p.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Thats why we conducted a survey of 200 product managers across industries like finance, healthcare, and tech to better understand the value of certification. Certification reflects dedication to growth, the ability to tackle complex challenges, and even readiness for leadership opportunities.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention. For example, our Finance team is now able to confirm whether new customer growth is up in our target segments. Informing our approach to the market. Assessing progress on our strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need. IMHO, Product Leadership Experience Is Essential for Heads of Product. <rant> When hiring a CFO (aka Head of Finance), they ask about previous experience managing cash flow, payroll, and accounts receivable teams.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. Product Leadership. Kate has more than 20 years product management, leadership and marketing experience with the likes of Yahoo! Kenneth Chin, CPO Seek Asia. by Kate Leto, Product Consultant.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

or horizontally (IT, Sales, finance, HR, etc.). Don’t confuse leadership and influence with a dictatorship. Strong leadership and influence from product management starts with superior market knowledge. Product Management & Product Marketing Leadership: How to Lead From a Position of Strength. Consider It!

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If As a company that’s become a leader in the product management space, many product managers turn to Pendo for best practices and thought leadership. However, his career took a different turn when he started at Intuit’s corporate and strategy side.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 4, 2020

He brings extensive financial and leadership experience that will help Intercom continue to scale and deliver on our mission to make internet business personal. As we enter our next era, now is the right time to bring on a strong finance leader with deep experience in growing companies at our scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

Modern customer engagement is a newer discipline than more established, traditional functions like HR, finance, or IT. It’s not surprising then that one of the key challenges companies are facing is finding suitable talent to fill critical roles – from leadership all the way to execution.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 30, 2018

After all, humans are naturally prone to loss aversion and status quo bias , in life as well as finances. Detached from the leadership; removed from the sense of mission. It’s filled with the sense that we might make a mistake, might take a wrong turn, might end up full of regrets, and this can be a powerful deterrent.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In order to earn the trust of your leadership, you need to make sure you can deliver as effectively and efficiently as possible. You’ll be solving challenges that will go to the heart of your business such as finance, mergers / acquisitions and your cultural set up. Senior Product Management.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

For a revenue-generating product, this might be someone from marketing, sales, support, and finance. These are the individuals whose input you need to make the right decision, who help you progress and offer the product, and who are affected by the product and its ability to create value.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Finance, HR, IT, Legal, and Compliance all need to be able to apply the entrepreneurial spirit to enable innovation. As we try to move beyond waterfall ways of working and being measured by outputs and long-term forecasts, what measures can we track that indicate our leadership buys into this new way of working?

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Identify and execute action items required to establish stronger working relationships with engineering, marketing, sales, finance and customer success teams. Superior knowledge of the market/customers and strong leadership skills are top of the heap. This includes touchpoints with all other internal disciplines.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Essential functions like legal, compliance, marketing, and finance often get overlooked, considered as mere support rather than integral parts of the process. It’s about understanding the unique dynamics of cross-functional teams and adapting leadership styles accordingly, rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all management strategy.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

They’re expected to lead, and that leadership is the only way your organization can consistently deliver solutions that are both valuable to customers and drive your own growth and profitability. Ideally, you have exposure to business operations in HR, IT, finance, operations, etc.,

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

This is where you need to establish yourself, your leadership style and your presence. Once this is completed, get in front of key executives from all areas of the company – from customer experience to accounting and finance. Your first 100 days in your new product leadership position sets the tone.

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Gainsight

MARCH 8, 2023

Once, finance leaders had a simple mandate: Keep the books up to date, make sure the numbers add up, and track where the money flows. That changed over time, and finance now anchors every aspect of the organization in actionable analytics. Today, financial leadership is transforming once again. Look in the mirror.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2018

The emphasis is on cross-functional team leadership and, ideally, this person approaches innovation with a business mindset. Provide leadership and direction to extended team members. Corporate Leadership’s Role. Core teams typically consist of up to eight members with a diverse set of skills and a core team leader. Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Managers who are able to clearly articulate what a strategy is, the differences between strategy, goals and actions are better able to manage people, build trust with leadership and achieve better outcomes. If you see poor value, you have a good business case to take to leadership on changing things. You can continue….

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In Leadership. Example from finance team member working cross functionally: “I’ve learned a lot about marketing a product — about how and why we make decisions.”. How does leadership style affect psychological safety? You won’t get punished for disagreeing with the boss’s idea or suggesting a new one that doesn’t work out.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Pretend you’re a hiring manager looking for the next PM to help drive your digital finance product. You have two candidates on your radar who have differing profiles, with each featuring their own respective repertoires: Product Manager A has 3 years of experience , with 2 of them focusing on a previous finance-related business.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2023

Leadership support is key ‍ The success of any transformation is intrinsically linked to the level of support and trust you’ll get from the organisation’s leadership. Tip: If you don’t have the full support and commitment of the CEO and the entire leadership team, you should first work on this before doing anything else.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

  Do Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Engineering, and Product know/have what they need to support the plan?  ”  Our scope typically doesn’t cover all of Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Bus Dev, and Engineering.    Did they have sufficient input?   Tous pour un, un pour tous.

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Product Culture

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Sarah must work closely with engineering, design, support, services, sales, marketing, and even finance to set expectations on what will be in the roadmap going forward and what will not. This is product leadership. That’s not to say it will be easy. Do you have similar stories?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 12, 2020

We have a wide cross-functional team, comprising a product manager, product designer, an engineering squad, QA, data analysis and commercial finance, user research, and loyalty. Our aim is to create an onboarding experience for our customers that sets them up well both through their trial period and for life. Tweet This.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 23, 2017

and/or business function (HR, IT, Finance, etc.) It has to be a credible person that your salesforce respects and looks to for guidance and leadership in tough situations. Most product marketing responsibilities require strong selling skills, both internal and external. where products are used. No need to duplicate.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

1] They might include senior management, marketing, sales, service, operations, finance, and HR. Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Involve the Right Stakeholders Stakeholders can form a large group, especially in bigger companies. [1] Securing everyone’s buy-in would be impractical—it would most likely take too much time.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Go ahead and talk with peers in sales, marketing, engineering, product managers, design, support, finance, and so on. 4) Align with executives and core product leadership. Once you’ve done your homework, get leadership on board. Remember those conversations I had when starting a new job? That was the beginning of my audit.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This was one such situation — the product leadership team agreed and memorialized the decision that our product was bloated, and we needed to streamline it. Instead, they decided to play subversive spy games and convince executive leadership that we needed so many new capabilities that we had to scrap our plans for deletion.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. Most of us try to avoid arguments with our peers.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. We also partnered with the marketing and finance departments to determine the financial feasibility of the product.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 But Engineering usually tracks this, and the Finance team reports it to our CFO and Board every quarter.  Thus   BTW, that must be paired with leadership-level cultural changes to reward thinking before action, and executive applause when we spend a little time/money to sidestep a major disaster.  We

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