Vp of product responsibilities of parents

  • Being a VP of Product at a fast-growing startup or holding any senior leadership role while starting or raising a family is a challenging.
  • Part of your responsibility as a PM is to protect and nurture your baby.
  • A product manager should have a ring side view of the product, like a CEO. They should be viewed by the entire team as their leader, like a CEO.

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    Product Parenting

    2008-10-22 13:00:00

    The genesis of this article happened back in May when I posted a blog entry containing the following snippet:

    And finally, for something completely different, don't miss the Jam Session at Tech-Ed on June 3rd.  Several of us minions from SourceGear are planning to take the stage and give our rendition of Pinball Wizard.  It'll be me on acoustic guitar, our development manager Jeremy Sheeley on bass, and our product manager Paul Roub playing the Evil Mastermind Schecter PT that will be given away later that week.

    BTW, I'm not a very good guitar player, but the jam turned out OK.

    Anyway, the first comment on that blog post was from a reader who said:

    3 managers. Wow. Your company must be growing and/or is fairly large.

    The person who made that comment was probably using the word "manager" to refer to "someone who manages people".  If so, then yes, our company has more than 3 managers, but not all of the 3 people playing Pinball Wizard qualify:

    • Jeremy Sheeley is actually a manager.  He runs the development team that builds Vault and Fortress.
    • Strictly speaking, I suppose I am a manager.  But people who know me would say that referring to me as a manager is an undeserved compliment.
    • But Paul Roub is a

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      Q: As someone considering parenthood while also contemplating their career path, what can you share about your lifestyle of raising kids while holding a product leader position? Anything you'd change or do differently?

      I recently wrote a shorter version of an answer to this post on LinkedIn. Unfortunately the character count on a LI post doesn’t really cut it for answering this question so here we are…

      First, CONGRATULATIONS. This is a big step in life and the fact that you are thinking about parenthood and career path is already a great start. I’ve learned a lot about this over the last 10+ years of parenthood and leadership.

      I have two kids now and my oldest daughter was born right around the time we

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