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The User Behavior Insights project is moving on to the next phase, interpreting user behavior as judgements on relevance -- which can then be used as inputs to evaluation systems and machine learning systems such as Learning to Rank. We'd appreciate your feedback on the RFC: OpenSearch Search Quality Evaluation Framework (https://lnkd.in/ecVzVux5)

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For folks wanting to assess a company's Continuous Discovery Habits, this is a gem: https://lnkd.in/gZJN8bqh I am excited to start the Continuous Discovery Habits Master Class at Product Talk Academy today. Have a look at their course catalog. #continuousdiscoveryhabits #prodmgmt #ux #engineering

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Breaking up is hard to do.... 🎶 Unless you have a shitty roadmap, in which case, is it really? Plus points for getting the absolute worst/best cover image on YT. Our latest episode is live! #roadmaps #prodmgmt #productmanagement https://lnkd.in/e3zxkndv

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Most Director to CPO Product Leadership roles are never posted - here's how to find them. The hidden job market for product leadership roles is a reality that many aspiring Directors, VPs, Heads of, and CPOs may not be aware of. We interviewed 7 external Executive Recruiters, 2 internal big tech Executive Recruiters, 2 VC talent teams, and 12 CPOs/ VPs about the product leadership job search. Here’s what we’ve found: At least 80% of Chief Product Officer roles are never publicly advertised and even 30%-50% of (Sr.) Director roles get filled without cold applicants. This means that solely relying on job boards, you're missing out on a significant portion of available positions. Companies post these roles much less often for a variety of reasons: 🚫 They don’t want the press to speculate 🚫 They don’t want the current leaders to know 🚫 They don’t want to waste time on lots of low quality applicants 🚫 They don't think the best candidates will apply Remember that reputation matters as much as your resume when you become a leader. So how do you find the roles? 1️⃣ Executive Recruiters They run a high percentage of leadership searches at top startups and public companies. Exec Recruiters have helped me get more than half of my Director, VP, and CPO offers. 2️⃣ VCs VC firms, especially those with talent arms, know which portfolio companies (even public ones) are hiring and want to deliver valuable candidates. They can direct you to executive recruiters or directly to the companies. 3️⃣ Your Network To sniff out opportunities, tap your network of tech executives, past bosses and skip managers, founders, and other product leaders. Shift your mindset from a reactive job seeker to a proactive opportunity seeker. While it may require more effort, the payoff is big. The difference between a great and a bad product leadership role can mean 5-10x outcomes in your career. Of course, leaders have landed roles by applying online at the Director/Sr. Director level, but almost never without a connection. 💬 Comment with your experience and any questions. Follow to learn more about finding, landing, an negotiating product leadership jobs. Find the full deep dive into the product leadership job search I wrote with Aakash Gupta in the comments.

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Really enjoyed my chat with Matt Hinds, CEO of Sauce, where we talked about transforming product vision into company strategy, partnering with CEOs, and protecting teams against planning busy work that gets thrown away in Q1. As we head into company planning season, here’s the tl;dr on how to get planning right: 📝 Define the strategy — Create a 1-pager (ok, maybe a 2-pager) that includes: the mission, what that means for customers in 3 years time, and investment areas for the next 12-18 months. 👥 Design the org — Spend a lot of time on org design so your teams reflect that strategy. 🎯 Clarify the investment areas — What’s even more important than what you’re investing in, is what you’re not investing in. Make sure your teams know what to focus on and what falls away. 🔨 Empower teams — Let the what’s and how’s come from the team. As a leader, it’s not up to you to dictate what we need to build. You need to empower your teams to decide that based on their in depth understanding of your customers and business. Curious to know what others biggest learnings have been when it comes to planning? Drop me a comment below and let's compare notes 👇 #product #startups #productmanagement

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Because product marketing touches so many areas, it’s difficult to measure impact with a single metric. Instead, I think about my work in terms of inputs, outputs, and outcomes. This is a popular framework for measuring performance within complex systems. I like this framework for explaining the impact of product marketing because product marketers tend to partner with many other teams, with varying degrees of influence. In short: Inputs are the raw materials of product marketing. Things like customer research, visual design, or copywriting. Quality inputs lead to quality outputs. Outputs are the end product of putting these inputs together, the sum of the parts. Outputs range in size and scope. An output could be something as simple as an email newsletter, or as big as a go-to-market strategy for a new product. Quality outputs lead to quality outcomes. Outcomes are the changes that help move a business forward and can be linked to outputs. This is where things get tricky for product marketing because product marketing outputs typically combine with outputs from other areas to create outcomes. I write about this in more detail in a post I wrote a few years ago 👇

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