Product leadership
Product leadership involves advocating for product management, encouraging a user-focussed, product-led approach and contributing to a self-sustaining product community.
Levels
- 1. Awareness
You can:
- describe how product management works with other roles in a multi-disciplinary team
- explain how user and business needs should be balanced in product development
- attend product management community activities
- 2. Working
You can:
- advocate for your product and a product-led approach
- seek opportunities for reuse and learning in your area
- protect the team, for example, from unnecessary distractions or requests to change direction
- consult and mediate with stakeholders
- participate in product management community activities
- 3. Practitioner
You can:
- seek opportunities for reuse and learning across your organisation
- represent product management in your area in conversations with senior stakeholders
- protect teams, for example, from unnecessary distractions and requests to change direction
- coach and manage others in product management
- lead some product management community activities and participate in cross-government communities
- 4. Expert
You can:
- seek opportunities for reuse and learning across government
- co-ordinate the product management community
- lead on coaching and mentoring for product management in your organisation
- lead some activities in cross-government communities, establishing and maintaining wider relationships across the profession
- represent product management in your organisation in conversations with senior stakeholders
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Closest ESCO skills
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Role levels that expect this skill
| Role level | Role | Band | Expected level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associate product manager | Product manager | 6 | Awareness |
| Product manager | Product manager | 7 | Working |
| Senior product manager | Product manager | 8a | Practitioner |
| Lead product manager | Product manager | 8b | Practitioner |
| Head of product | Product manager | 8c | Expert |