#9: Strategy when Hyper Scaling - with Nicholas Goubert, CPO @Utopia Music

What is like to set a strategy when your company is growing in headcount by 2x (or more!) per year? How do you identify the areas where the new joiners will be working? How do you balance new opportunity spaces versus focusing on the existing ones? How do you onboard new members on the strategy topics?

Nicholas Goubert is working in one of the fastest growing companies in Europe, and has first hand experience with all these challenges.

We talked about:

• How he created the strategy at Utopia music considering the high-growth conditions
• How he balances the delegation of strategy aspects with his product leadership team.
• How to take into account resource planning for the strategy process, very critical in a hyper-growth situation.
• How to make sure you still spend time in strategy, when conflicting with high priority sensitive activities like hiring and onboarding.

Among many other things!

You can find Nicholas on Linkedin, and see the open positions at Utopia Music career page.

Remember that you can find more info and material on productdirection.co/podcast.

If you are eager to know more about product strategy, check out Product Direction: How to build successful products at scale with Strategy, Roadmaps, and OKRs

You can also contact or follow your host, Nacho Bassino, at productdirection.co (training, coaching, and more)