Walking into a CPO role without setting expectations is a recipe for failure. Every executive will have their own idea of what ‘product’ means. If you don’t define your role, they’ll do it for you.
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Your first job is to uncover why you were hired. Is it to rein in the CEO’s idea-of-the-week? To push engineering to ship faster? To own strategy? Whatever the mandate, you need to claim it. Run a listening tour. Sit down one-on-one with every executive and key board member. Ask them what success looks like and what they expect from product. You can’t say yes to everyone, but use those conversations to build alignment and alliances. Then, come back with a clear, opinionated definition of your role and how decisions will be made. See more at CPO.studio.
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