Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers | Heavybit
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The 4 Levels of PMF
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principal product manager—a person who's an individual contributor but a rock‐star performer and willing and able to tackle the toughest product work. This is a very highly regarded role and generally compensated like a director or even VP.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
- Level one: Nascent product-market fit. Likely a pre-seed or seed-stage company. The goal in this stage is to find three to five customers with a problem worth solving, engage with them, deliver a solution, and validate that solution. [examples: Vanta, L
Lenny Rachitsky • A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)
As a product manager, you also have to be able to straddle multiple levels and audiences. It’s like speaking different languages (human or computer ones) and being able to relate the message to people in a language that they’ll understand. You need to get your team jazzed and excited about what you’re building, get them to contribute and own their
... See moreGayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro • Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology (Cracking the Interview & Career)
Since the head of product is first and foremost responsible for building the skills of the product managers, a dedicated principal product manager is able to focus on the product itself and is readily accessible as a critical resource to all the product managers, product designers, engineers, and test automation staff.
