Claire Vo (CPO Color): Why It's Finally Time for the Individual Contributor PM to Shine
Today, I want to share an interview with Claire Vo, Chief Product Officer of Color and ex-CPO of Optimizely. Claire believes that it’s never been a better time to be a strong IC PM and has built a career ladder where the best individual contributors report directly to the C-suite. We spoke about: Why PM performance theater needs to end How to pursue the super IC PM career path How IC PMs can use AI to excel at their job Welcome, Claire! To kick things off, can you explain what PM performance theater is and why it’s problematic? I think we need to stop rewarding the performance theater of PM frameworks and instead reward people for actually building great products. You can't put an idea into the framework factory and get a great product out on the other end. I agree. Simply memorizing frameworks doesn't ensure that you can make a quality product. The actual process tends to be very messy. Yes, I’ve been a product leader for many years and still build duds from time to time. Part of it i
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