Last month, I spoke a bit about how it’s worth it to do what it takes to grow your product — whether that means picking up a new skill or other functional roles when it’s needed at different stages of the company. We often underestimate the value of recognizing when…

It has been a crazy yet amazing year at Brilliant. I’ve already seen the company double since I joined last March. I now lead Product UX and Design on the Brilliant Control and Mobile Apps, Product Management, and Product Analytics at Brilliant. For those that don’t know what Brilliant is…

If there is one blanket statement that can apply across the entire field of product management — it is that the PM role and its expectation differs at every company, for every product, and for every team. But for new entrants in the product management world, there isn’t a good…

As a product manager, you are on call all the time for the product that you manage. How do you manage your work stamina and make sure you don’t feel overwhelmed? This past March, I moved on from my role at Shopkick to Brilliant Home Technologies, and have entered a…

I’ve had the pleasure of working with extremely thoughtful people in my career. At Trulia and Zillow Group, I had peers with decades of experience in Design and Engineering across many types of companies and interacted with many types of Product Managers. At Shopkick and now Brilliant, I have worked…

When I took my first role as Product Manager, I was transitioning from a Strategy Analyst role that was responsible for three different verticals at Trulia. I still remember my previous boss telling me… “It’s the first time you’re a Product Manager. Make sure you launch products well, and on…

I had the pleasure of hearing Steven Sinofsky (responsible for leading Windows, Office, IE, Outlook.com, and Skydrive product at various parts of his MSFT career) speak at the first Products that Count Leading Teams Retreat a few years ago. …

Collaboration can come in many flavors. We may call it Slack, Hipchat, Google Drive, Office 365 or Quip at work, but it is so much more than the technology we use to communicate. …

A common saying in the valley when describing the product manager role is that we are the “CEO” of the product. Let’s assume that is the intended role of the product manager. What would you then encompass as part of your role? The answer is anything and everything that is…