People-first Product Leadership and tactical advice for newly minted Group Product Managers | Diana Stepner (CPO at Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative)

I’m joined by Diana Stepner who is the Chief Product Officer at Chan-Zuckerberg initiative and has held product leadership roles at SimplePractice, Pearson, Kayak, Razorfish and Monster.com in the past. Diana also runs a cohort -based course on Maven called Product First Leadership - topic that talk about on this episode.

We talk about :

1) What's unique about product leadership role

2) Tactical advice for things a newly minted group product manager : how to organize the team, conduct 1:1s, handle the hard conversations and manage your personal career as a product leader

3) Anti-patterns of product leader

[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:01:44] Diana's product journey

[00:04:16] Diana's role as CPO at Chan and Zuckerberg Initiative

[00:07:16] What's unique about product leadership?

[00:09:50] Archectypes of Product Managers

[00:12:56] Advice for getting started as a newly minted Group Product Manager

[00:16:53] How to structure 1:1s?

[00:21:06] How to create an environment that Product Managers on the team can thrive

[00:24:45] Starting career planning for Product Managers on the team

[00:28:28] Having the tough conversations with career progression

[00:31:32] Anti-Patterns of product leadership

[00:35:09] Managing personal growth as a product leader

[00:37:25] Rapid Fire

Where to find Naveen

- Linkedin : https://linkedin.com/in/naveenpitchandi

- Website : https://numberlock.me

Where to find Diana

- Website : https://www.dianastepner.com/

- Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianas/

- Maven Course - https://maven.com/diana-stepner/product-leadership

👉Episode page : https://Productleaders.fm/11