Lenny's Podcast · Nov 5Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, TripAdvisor)
Crowley spent nearly four years there as senior director of product, seeing two or three cycles of the same product and the consequences of her decisions. The phrase 'carrying the water' came up with David Cancel and was a big theme when she joined.
Tips
- Do the unglamorous work and never say it's not your job▶ 27:51Maggie says people willing to just get the work done move faster and ship more successful products.
- Stay at one company long enough to see consequences▶ 25:46Maggie says it took about five years in total before she felt she knew what she was doing as a PM.
- Build a small peer group to review each other's work▶ 19:44Maggie's three-person Slack group, formed with former Drift colleagues, still reviews her work.
