Meet Matt Roe, a senior product supervisor at HubSpot. Based mostly in England, Matt has labored at HubSpot for over two years within the Progress house. When Matt isn’t busy managing product, he’s hitting the native ice rink to play hockey. Learn on to be taught extra about Matt, the distinction between a Product Supervisor and a Product Proprietor, and far more.
Inform us about your function. What do you do for HubSpot?
I establish potential alternatives for brand spanking new person acquisition progress at HubSpot and work with my product groups to construct them.
What does collaboration appear like in your staff?
Collaboration appears to be like so much like partnering with researchers to establish new potential progress alternatives; collaborating with Design to work out how these alternatives will feel and appear; and dealing with engineers to scope about constructing them.
Working intently with designers and engineers is an important a part of my day-to-day. I additionally work intently with different Product Managers to share learnings, and greatest practices and regularly develop, like PEER Week. (Product Interact, Excited, and Reunite Week).
As we’re distant, most of this collaboration is digital, nonetheless, we now have a number of alternatives yearly to collaborate in individual.
What are a number of methods you stability work and life? How does HubSpot’s flexibility/hybrid work model assist with this?
I am a leisure ice hockey participant, so I spend my free time coaching or taking part in video games. Sport is an effective way to totally swap off from work because it occupies your thoughts and physique, so 3-4 instances every week I’ll go right down to my native rink after work.
Being a distant worker means the time I would often spend commuting is spent making ready for, and touring to, hockey follow. It is an enormous profit which means I’ve extra time to myself and extra time to relaxation.
How can you convey your true self to work day by day?
HubSpot is a spot the place range, inclusion, and belonging are taken significantly. I do not actually have a lot ‘formal’ expertise working within the company world, nor do I’ve an MBA from an Ivy League faculty. Nonetheless, my supervisor and staff see previous my much less conventional path to changing into a Product Supervisor and embrace the distinctive experiences I’ve had in my life and profession. This perspective means I haven’t got to ‘faux’ when at work – I can simply be my genuine self and do my greatest work.
What’s a false impression individuals have about your function?
The largest false impression of my function is that the function of a Product Supervisor is identical as a Product Proprietor or Venture Supervisor. Product Managers are half Venture Supervisor, half Product Proprietor, and half strategist. Our job is to make sure merchandise are constructed on time, to scope, and meet each buyer and enterprise necessities.
I work in Progress, and the Progress operate provides one other layer to the function. Being a Progress Product Supervisor means I should be a steward of fine experimentation follow and tradition, making certain that the whole lot we do leads to dependable and scalable learnings.
What stunned you most about working at HubSpot?
Once I was interviewing at HubSpot I did not assume everybody might be so purchased into the corporate tradition and the Tradition Code. It is apparent you’d heard about it throughout interviews however the realities of a job are sometimes totally different. How mistaken I used to be. The Tradition Code is spoken about (and adopted) by everybody within the enterprise, and senior leaders place plenty of weight on it. Management embraces our HEART values (Humble, Empathetic, Adaptable, Outstanding, Clear) as a lot as everybody else, and nearly everybody within the enterprise is genuinely purchased into it.
Select 3-4 phrases that describe your function at HubSpot.
Rewarding. Difficult. Participating.
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