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Career Growth

Popular Resources

We’re Hiring! Director of Product and Marketing

Products That Count is seeking a highly-motivated Director of Product and Marketing to join the largest global network of product managers.

A Path to the C-Suite – A Conversation with One of the 1st Ever CPOs

A conversation with one of the first CPOs, fmr Plantronics, Google, Logitech, now Products That Count CPO, Renee Niemi, on the path to the C-suite.

Miracle Messages Founder & CEO on Building Products For Impact

Miracle Message Founder & CEO, Kevin Adler, speaks on activism through tech and how to build products that make a positive impact.

Product Awards

The Product Awards Winners Circle w/ Userleap

Join us in The Winners Circle with UserLeap CEO, Ryan Glasgow, to discuss why user metrics are imperative to building award-winning products.

Curology Fmr Head of Product on Stakeholder Management and Product Strategy

Curology fmr Head of Product speaks on navigating common product management challenges such as stakeholder management and product strategy.

DFINITY Product VP on the Key Product Trends of the Future

DFINITY Product VP Brendan Foley joins Products That Count to gives an overview of the key product trends driving the future.

Cognizant Product VP on Product Management Driven Digital Transformation

Cognizant Product VP Jeremy Horn joins Products That Count to share how product managers can be the driving force behind digital transformation.

Burnout & Isolation

PL Skills

PM Skills

Slack Product Director on Resilience as a Product Manager

Slack Product Director Ellie Powers shares how products, teams, and product leaders themselves can adapt in strange times to build resilience.

The Talent Challenge

Instapage/Postclick VP of Product on How to Grow a Successful Product Team

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Career Growth

Calendly fmr Product Head on a Career in Product Management

Recent insights from Calendly fmr VP of Product, Oji Udezue, on digitial acceleration and building a career in product management.

Market Fit

Box Product VP on the Product-Market Fit Journey

Box Product VP Alok Ojha shares methods for product managers on how to evaluate and optimize product-market fit.

Netflix fmr VP of Product Management on Product Strategy

Netflix former VP of Product Management, Gibson Biddle, joins Products That Count to share frameworks on product strategy.

Growth Mindset

Apple Head of Product on The Product Mindset Required for Greatness

Apple Head of Product , Mohit Bhatnagar, joins Products That Count to speak on the product mindset needed for greatness.

Market Fit

Shopify Sr. Product Lead on Finding Product-Market Fit

Shopify Sr. Product Lead, Nickey Skarstad, recently spoke at a Product That Count to discuss how to define product-market fit.

Artificial Intelligence

Dun & Bradstreet CPO on Building AI Products

Chitrang Shah recently spoke at a Products That Count hosted webinar and discussed lessons learned from building the first-generation B2B AI Products

Best Practices

Smartsheet Product VP on How to Make Product Decisions

Nitin T. Bhat recently spoke at a Products That Count hosted webinar and discussed making product decisions as a product leader.

Acquisition, Conversion & Retention

Bluedot Co-Founder on Creating A Geofencing Product (Part 3)

Filip Eldic, Co-Founder of Bluedot, speaks on technology to predict customer behavior. Learn more in the Products That Count blog.

Nira CEO on Steps to Improve Customer Retention as a Product Manager (Part 2)

When it comes to the short-term of improving customer retention, there are two lenses—learn more from Hiten Shah in this blog.

Acquisition, Conversion & Retention

Nira CEO on Steps to Improve Customer Retention as a Product Manager

What are the steps to improve customer retention? You have to talk about customer needs and benefits if you want to be customer-obsessed.

Product Awards

Fmr Rent The Runway Product Director on The 2020 Product Awards and Product Insights (Part 2)

There are a few key traits that Laura Burkhauser, Fmr Rent the Runway Product Director, tends to look for in a great product manager.

Product Awards

Fmr Rent The Runway Product Director on The 2020 Product Awards and Product Insights

Laura Burkhauser discusses the 2020 Product Awards Advisory Board and provides insight on collaboration in the product life cycle.

Build Great Products

Yammer fmr VP of Product on Operationalizing Viral Loops

Yammer Fmr VP of Product discusses the best methods for making a product go viral by first focusing on product-market fit and then growth.

Bluedot Co-Founder on Creating a Geofencing Product (Part 2)

Filip Eldic, Co-Founder of Bluedot, talks about the solution-oriented approach to creating a geofencing product that centers on user behavior.

Building For The Gig Economy: Part 3, Focusing On The Needs

PJ Tanzillo, Favor Product Lead, talks about focusing on the needs of your users while working on a gig economy based business.

Building For The Gig Economy: Part 2, Software and Service

PJ Tanzillo, Favor Product Lead, reveals the many services Favor provides and how a software company can always put the customer first.

New to PM

Becoming A Product Owner, Part 3: Optimism to Drive Ownership

The series concludes with DoorDash Product VP, Rajat Shroff, delving into the importance of optimism for driving product ownership.

Favor Delivery Product Lead on Building For The Gig Economy

PJ Tanzillo, Product Lead at Favor Delivery, discusses his start in product by building apps which led to a position at Favor Delivery.

New to PM

Becoming a Product Owner, Part 2: Be Customer Obsessed, Not Competitor Focused

Rajat Shroff, DoorDash Product VP, shares his key traits for product ownership and how to be customer-obsessed, not competitor focused.

Amperity fmr Product Lead on Building From Idea To Business

Mona Akmal, Amperity fmr Product Lead, discusses her journey in building her own company and questions she needed to ask herself along the way.

Shifting the Culture

Building an Innovative Culture: The DEL Model

Gibson Biddle, Fmr Netflix Product VP, on the DEL model in order to create a unique company culture that you can maintain.

Shifting the Culture

Building an Innovative Culture: Netflix Culture Deck

Read Gibson Biddle's, Fmr Netflix Product VP, article that discusses Netflix culture- how it was developed, maintained, and reinforced.

Customer focus

Customer Feedback: Using Journey Maps

Expedia fmr Product Lead Anne Retterer describes how journey maps provide a framework for customer feedback to help prioritize features.

Customer focus

Processes, Tools & Frameworks

Product Lifecycle

Expedia Fmr. Product Lead On Managing Customer Feedback Loops

Explore the academic side of feedback loops with Expedia fmr Product Lead Anne Retterer by analyzing input relevance from key stakeholders.

Product Lifecycle

Full Stack Development: Finding Your Product Dharma

Learn about developing a unique professional code for building a full stack with Brilliant Home Product Director Gaurav Hardikar.

Processes, Tools & Frameworks

Product Lifecycle

Full Stack Development: Expectations, Necessary Tools

Get an overview of the expectations and tools required for building a full stack as a product manager with Brilliant Home Product Director Gaurav Hardikar.

Build Great Products

Brilliant Home Product Director on Building A Full Stack

Brilliant Home Product Director Gaurav Hardikar sets the stage for building a full stack by outlining the variety of touchpoints created by smart home tech.

Customer focus

UserTesting fmr Product VP on User-Centric Design

User-centric design goes far beyond style and looks. At its core, design unites nearly every aspect of products, businesses and organizations.

Developer Platforms

Salesforce Health Cloud Product VP on Product Platforms

Platform products represent a powerful marketplace that equally drives revenue for its provider and for the developers that use it to promote new products.

Measuring Success

PL Skills

Uber fmr Product Lead on Measuring PM Performance

Measuring performance goes beyond your impact on the bottom line, as your personal growth must align with your ability to drive business results.

TechCrunch fmr Product Lead on Legacy Products

Legacy products are often misunderstood by product managers - providing teams with access to years of user data and insights to guide product development.

Facebook AR/VR Lead on Effective Product Design

The product design function is often misunderstood by product managers and viewed as a "mystery." In reality, the two departments have plenty in common.

Growth & Scale

Floodgate Founder on Building For Growth Products

Growth products do not happen by accident - they are guided by driven teams that are intentionally driven by success and do not accept failure as an option.

PL Skills

Popular Resources

Stripe Lead Product Manager on Managing Product Managers

Before moving into leadership positions, product managers need to understand success drivers in order to achieve specific career milestones.

Best Practices

Box CPO on Product Design

Silicon Valley sets the standard for best practices in product design, creating impactful solutions at scale that reach a wide range of customers.

Coinbase CPO on Design Thinking

Innovation in design thinking breaks down inefficient ways of working with new solutions that enhance productivity and create a better experience.