Product to Product: A Product Management Podcast for / by Product People
Summary: At Roadmunk, we build a product management platform for product people (beautiful + collaborative roadmapping software); and as part of the product management community, we’ve seen how open product people are to helping their peers. They share their own experiences of working in product, both the good and the bad, in very honest ways. We decided to take the candid conversations that are happening in product communities on Reddit and Slack and Medium – and turn them into an interview podcast. We have really cool interviews coming up with product managers, designers, marketers and the odd engineer, too.
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When Gustavo Melo joined Amazon’s wedding registry product team, he noticed that the technical side wanted to develop cool features and the non-tech side wanted to deliver business value. Seeing a major gap, Gustavo set on a mission to reverse this tense culture.
As a product team lead, you’re not managing the product per se. You’re managing other product managers with their own opinions on how the product should work—which means things can get messy. As Venmo’s head of product, Ben Mills has picked up a few insights for overcoming this messiness.
The data says one thing, but your gut says otherwise. What’s a PM to do? Can you trust your intuition to make the right decision for your users? Luckily, Brian Donohue and Michelle Fitzpatrick have first-hand experience with building “product conviction.”
When Sanette Tanaka Sloan joined Vox Media’s first-ever R&D team, she was tasked with designing an AI bot for the Amazon Echo. The goal? Change the way audiences were finding and consuming their news. Little did she know, this project would teach her a lot about how product design can disrupt typical user behaviours.
User personas and jobs to be done have long been go-to frameworks for product people wanting to click with their users. Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca recently did a deep-dive into these two concepts on Rocketship.FM. So on this bonus episode, they explain how to apply these frameworks and why jobs to be done has become the popular tool on the block.
As a product management consultant and founder of a product school, Melissa Perri’s mission is clear-cut: teach people how to effectively think like a product manager. So we investigate what fuels product thinking, and how aspiring / existing PMs can learn this abstract skillset.
As a product manager it’s easy to get so caught up in hitting KPIs that you forget to ask, “How’s my team doing?” For Lulu Cheng, her team’s “wellness” needed just as much focus as her metrics. So she prioritized her team’s well-being to ultimately improve her team’s overall performance and product strategy.
An integral part of Hotjar's success (fully bootstrapped to $10 million ARR) is their freemium pricing model. Many Hotjar users will never pay the company a cent. We find out how free usage has helped Hotjar grow + how it impacts product decisions.
Ellen Chisa recently made the transition from VP of Product at Lola to startup co-founder. We find out how Ellen’s career in product management is helping her tackle the challenges of an early-stage startup head on.
Aman Manik noticed that his fellow product managers at Square had very different perspectives on what their job description should be. So, he decided to get them all together to come up with a singular definition of what it means to be part of their product team. They created a “PM culture guide.”
Successful product managers = world-class communicators. It’s why much of a PM’s time is spent writing. Evan Michner, creative writer-turned-product manager, makes the case for why writing is a critical (and not-easy) skill for PMs to develop + tactical ways a PM can keep their tech-y role creative.
Since adopting Burndown, Drift had increased revenue by 5x. Matt Bilotti talks to us about what the framework is, how it differs from traditional agile and scrum methodologies, and how the framework amplifies Drift's customer-first approach to products.
Inga Chen walks us through when and how to prepare for machine learning, what to do with user feedback during the development process, and the probability of a model failing (hint: a machine learning model will always fail).
A podcast for/by product people. At Roadmunk, we build a product for product people; and as part of the product community, we’ve seen how open product people are to helping their peers. They share their own experiences of working in product, both the good and the bad, in very honest ways. We decided to take the candid conversations that are happening in product communities online and turn them into an interview style podcast. Our first episode features a PM from Squarespace.
