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Growth Product Manager's Handbook

By : Eve Chen
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Growth Product Manager's Handbook

By: Eve Chen

Overview of this book

In the dynamic landscape of modern product management, professionals face a myriad of challenges, spanning customer acquisition, monetization, user retention, competition, and technical expertise. To overcome these hurdles, this book crystalizes growth strategies that revolve around harnessing the power of data, experimentation, and user insights to drive growth for a product. This handbook serves as your guide to exploring the essential growth product management models and their applications in various contexts, unveiling their role in enhancing revenue performance and customer retention. Along the way, actionable steps will steer you in implementing these models while helping you better understand your users, experiment with new features and marketing strategies, and measure the impact of your efforts, ultimately guiding you to achieve your customer retention and lifetime customer goals. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained advanced insights into growth product management, models, and growth strategies, and when and how to use them to achieve customer-for-life goals and optimized revenue performance.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: A User-Centric Management Strategy
5
Part 2: Demonstrating Your Product’s Value
9
Part 3: A Successful Product-Focused Strategy
13
Part 4: Winning the Battle and the War

Career paths and professional development opportunities for growth product managers

Navigating growth product management’s evolving terrain also involves capitalizing on expanding career opportunities. The field now offers diverse trajectories to senior product manager roles, company leadership, entrepreneurship, and beyond.

For example, Xiaodi Hou now leads product design at payments giant Stripe after holding product manager positions at Amazon and Microsoft. Her success shows how seasoned product managers can leverage experience into executive status at major firms.

Meanwhile, others chart their courses by founding startups. Ex-Facebook VP Julie Zhuo authored best-selling product management books before launching her own coaching company. Her path reveals entrepreneurial possibilities for growth product managers seeking independence.

To access these opportunities, growth product managers must actively strengthen their leadership abilities, strategic thinking, and...