Learn about how every Product Manager is a Growth PM, and takeaways about how to apply it to your own team. This was presented at MAU 2017 in Vegas.
Presentation recording here: http://grow.co/content/mau-vegas-2017-product-manager-lightning-round-panel/
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About the Speaker
Gaurav Hardikar
Senior Product Manager
Gaurav Hardikar is a Senior Product Manager at shopkick. He
formerly worked as Senior Product Manager at Trulia Rentals. He’s
responsible for driving ROI for CPG brand clients through features
that shopkick users love (like Scans and Receipts). When he’s not
trying to help the average American earn kicks while they shop, he
enjoys traveling, biking, and the general outdoors.
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We all have the same goal…GROW the business
When we join a company What we all do
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But there are always obstacles.
What obstacles?
Competing priorities for resources.
Why do they exist?
Misalignment of objectives between teams.
How do you solve it?
Grow the Company, not your castle.
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Tip #1: Orient the entire Team around growth
For the Product Manager… For the Marketer…
Involve marketers as key stakeholders in the
product development lifecycle and GTM
planning. Don’t forget, the most valuable
companies also have the largest brand
presence.
Join Standups. Get involved in the product
development process, understand the
product vision and goals, so you can
influence and build momentum within the
project team.
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Tip #2: Learn another Language
For the Product Manager… For the Marketer…
Marketers are instrumental in growing the
business, and can make the difference for a
successful launch. Learn more about how
that happens.
Understand the company goal in that quarter,
that sprint. PMs care about the bottom line
and think in terms of KPIs and ROI. No one
argues with the $$.
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Tip #3: Post-Success, Reset the goals. Iterate.
For BOTH Product Managers and Marketers…
Once you succeed once, don’t forget to rinse and repeat.
Unless you know where you’re driving
to, how will you reach it?
Fine tune the process on each
consecutive project.
There is no such thing as over
communication with your team.
To change the image behind the Mock up.
Select the layer - > Right Click -> Send to Back -> Delete the image -> Drag & Drop your Own Picture -> Send to Back (again)
We operate in Siloes… but we all are after the same thing. Revenue - we may just differentiate about future revenue vs present
The Product Manager position initially was formed due to a particularly nasty problem in product development – having too many tasks, aka “having to do everything”
Story: Trulia and Shopkick, standups and GTM
Story: Trulia and Shopkick, standups and GTM
It’s not a one time thing. This is a constant process, on a project by project basis. This is why companies with good team dynamics succeed.