Mastering Voice of Customer: Your Secret Ingredient for Product Career Success

Upcoming Webinar: Don't miss our live webinar "From Feedback to Features: Building Customer-Centric Product Teams at Scale" on February 25th, 2025. Learn actionable strategies for scaling customer-centric practices across your product organization. Time: 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST / 12:00 PM CST Register here: https://bit.ly/42SPHon In this episode of Product Team Success, Ross Webb explores how mastering Voice of Customer can transform your product career. Drawing from his experience as a Principal Product Manager at Amazon and Just Eat, Ross brings together five product leaders who share their proven approaches to turning customer understanding into career advancement. Key Highlights: Converting Customer Insights into Executive Influence Phil Hornby reveals how to manage the complexity of customer dataStrategies for combining data, anecdotes, and intuitionUsing Customer Advisory Boards effectivelyLeveraging AI tools to process customer feedback at scale Building Team-Wide Customer Understanding Philipp Katzenstein demonstrates engaging product owners and developersMaking customer interviews a natural team routineCreating shared customer personas across teams Data-Driven Stakeholder Management Justine Salter shares approaches to overcoming opinion-based decisionsUsing customer data to influence challenging stakeholdersBuilding credibility through customer insights Structured VoC Programmes Anna Peterson breaks down comprehensive feedback systemsBuilding customer panels and ride-along programmesCreating sustainable feedback loops Balancing Customer Types Giancarlo Herrera on managing internal and external customer needsBuilding integrated feedback systemsCreating collective understanding across stakeholder groups Key Takeaways: Customer understanding must be systematic and scalableTeam engagement in VoC creates better outcomesData-driven customer insights are crucial for influenceBalanced feedback systems drive career success Connect with our guests on LinkedIn to continue the conversation about turning customer understanding into product career success and sign up for the webinar above with Product Board, it's going to be great.

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Welcome to "Product Team Success: Real-World Career Advice for Product". I'm your host, Ross Webb, and I'm here to supercharge your journey, whether you're climbing the ladder to the C-suite or already leading from the top. Our content is your secret weapon - offering insights into business metrics, data-driven strategies, and stakeholder navigation, all tailored to propel you forward and keep you excelling in your role. We believe in 'productizing' yourself and your team, leading the charge towards product success with a no-nonsense, no-fluff approach. We're paving the path in an innovative realm we call 'Data-Driven Empathy'. We'll tackle an array of topics, from securing investment for data analytics, to acing product interviews, to presenting product direction with authority. So, subscribe now to "Product Team Success", join our community of pioneers, and let's together redefine the landscape of product leadership! Get ready to be invigorated, inspired, and informed, as we revolutionize product leadership, one episode at a time!