Episode 23 | Alex Francoeur, Head of Product @ Xata | Leading With Influence in a Startup

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 14, 2023 | Category: Cloud Technology | Series: Exploring the Cloud | Cloud, Technology, Sales, AI, ML, PM
Should engineering report to Product Management or should Product Management function solely through influence over other organzations? Listen to Alex Francoeur, Head of Product at Xata and formerly Director of Product Management at Elastic covering the Kibana Platform, talk about how to be a successful Product Manager and how your role changes as you move up to managing other Product Managers.

Show Notes

Episode #23 of “Can I get that software in blue?”, a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

Should engineering report to Product Management or should Product Management function solely through influence over other organzations? Your hosts Chad Tindel and Steve Mayzak are joined by Alex Francoeur, Head of Product at Xata and formerly Director of Product Management at Elastic covering the Kibana Platform, to talk about how to be a successful Product Manager and how your role changes as you move up to managing other Product Managers.

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Links mentioned in the episode:

http://www.cleverpm.com/2015/08/11/understanding-how-to-lead-through-influence/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/xvma0l/peter_yang_why_google_abandons_so_many_products/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/12/17/john-carmack-quits-meta-has-traditionally-harsh-words-on-the-way-out/?sh=7a9d8ea6e71c

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/meta-to-ask-many-managers-to-become-individual-contributors-or-leave?sref=IvuvZyc3

Guests

Alex Francoeur

Alex Francoeur

Alex Francoeur is the Director of Product Management at Xata. Before that he was Director of Product at Elastic (covering the Kibana Platform) and Dynatrace. Alex has a passion for building great products, UX & design and making complex things simple. Outside of work he makes too many dad jokes, enjoys playing soccer and spending time with his family.