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# Product Manager ramp up plan

This is a rough guide to ramping up as a product manager in PostHog.

### Timeline

#### Day 1

Outcome: Get started

- Get set up and follow your onboarding checklist
- Do your first analysis in PostHog (e.g. Who are our biggest customers? what's the most used feature?)
- Set up time to meet everyone in your team and understand their current strategy, motivations and risks
- Read up about the OKRs of your team
- Attend the Company All Hands

#### Week 1

Outcome: Get stuck into execution

- Join your teams' standups
- Learn about their current projects
- Arrange and host 2+ calls (through customer success initially) and get feedback from customers about ongoing projects
- Use PostHog to gather data to support with executing existing projects
- Share an interesting finding from PostHog in the demo section of the company all hands

#### Month 1

Outcome: Your teams are hitting their goals faster

- Finding opportunities to reduce scope and increase impact of big projects
- Giving the team the context they need to design and build really amazing solutions to customer problems
- Enabling the team move faster by finding and removing bottlenecks

#### Quarter 1

Outcome: Hit your goals and set the strategy for the next quarter

- Pull out the stops to get your team across the line with their existing goals
- Work with leadership and your team to define ambitious goals for next quarter
- Use data and customer context to rationalize priorities

### Specialism

As well as your day job with specific teams, its important we have PMs having company level impact across the following specialisms too.

#### Analytics

- You're performing analytics on how customers use our products outside of your team's scope
- This analysis defines how the company priorities what to build across product
- You push the limits of what's possible in PostHog to help us build more advanced tools and you work with SQL to get answers to the most complex queries

#### Customer Research

- You're always talking with our customers, and you intimately know how their frictions with our products
- You're giving customer insights to every team (in and outside of product) to help them prioritize better
- You're the first to hear about new opportunities and problems that our customers need solved and you capture this information

#### Growth

- You work closely with growth engineering and leadership to understand how we can accelerate activation and revenue growth
- You know inside-out our funnels for growth and provide the context for to make quick changes to validate hypothesis and grow faster

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