Leah Tharin, Chief Product and Growth Officer at gotphotocom, shares insights on the first 90 days in a new product role, challenges traditional onboarding plans, and discusses gaining trust from your team. Other topics include navigating leadership, building trust, and identifying warning signs for career growth.
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volunteer_activism ADVICE
Prioritize Relationships
Build trust and relationships in the first 30 days of a new job.
Focus on getting to know people, their motivations, and their work styles.
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The Flaw of Frameworks
Traditional interview processes often rely on superficial metrics.
Focus on personal questions to understand the candidate's character and passions.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Impact Over Output
Focus on the impact of your work, not just the tasks.
Constantly strive to grow and add more impactful achievements to your resume.
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If you’re starting a new role in product at whatever level, it can sometimes be difficult to get started, especially if you’re chucked in the deep end. In this week’s podcast episode, we speak with Leah Tharin, currently the Chief Product and Growth Officer at gotphotocom. She provides some insights on your first 90 days in a new product role, challenges the conventional wisdom of the 30, 60, 90-day plan, and goes into the best ways to gain trust from your new team.
Featured Links: Follow Leah on LinkedIn and Twitter | Leah’s website | Leah’s ‘Productea with Leah’podcast | ‘The Shit Sandwich and Other Terrible Ways to Give Feedback’ piece at I Done This Blog
Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank Bristol and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.
Randy Silver is a Leadership & Product Coach and Consultant. He gets teams unstuck, helping you to supercharge your results. Randy's held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group’s Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events. You can join one of communities he runs for CPOs (CPO Circles), Product Managers (Product In the {A}ether) and Product Coaches. He’s the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon’s music stores in the US & UK.
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