Effectively Collaborating with a Founder Product CEO

Working as a PM with a founder product CEO is hard. They understand the market, they created the product and they have a clear view of where the product should go. It feels like there is no role for product management.
Yet, as a company grows, a CEO’s time gets spread thin. PMs become critical to move the company towards the vision. Product leaders must establish ways of working with the CEO.
This presentation will outline what I have learned during my journey. The learnings are about:
– Shifting the focus towards the vision and help the organization understand where the product needs to go
– Moving towards an exploration of options that will realize milestones towards the vision, rather than discussions around individual isolated investments
– Focusing the product organization on customer insights through interviews, testing prototypes and becoming the company experts on the problems that need to be overcome to realize the vision