How Do You Know if You Need a Director for Product?

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A product leader should not have more than six direct reports. Engineering leaders could probably handle more. A group manager can be a player coach, where maybe they own some product go directly manage two or three people. An experience level directors should be quite quite independent and quite experienced.

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It’s important to know how to manage the synthesizers on your team. But first, let’s understand who synthesizers are and how they work.

Scott Williamson is the Chief Product Officer at GitLab.

In episode 88, Scott breaks down what it means to be a servant leader and how to manage synthesizers.

We also discuss the difference between KPI’s and OKR’s, and how leaders can use those two methods to provide clarity and focus for their team.

Tune in to learn about the signals Scott watches for to determine where blockers are and he even goes into detail about what a first-class hiring process looks like at Gitlab.