Meet Matt Roe, a senior product supervisor at HubSpot. Primarily based 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 rather more.
Inform us about your function. What do you do for HubSpot?
I establish potential alternatives for brand new consumer acquisition development at HubSpot and work with my product groups to construct them.
What does collaboration appear like in your workforce?
Collaboration seems to be lots like partnering with researchers to establish new potential development alternatives; collaborating with Design to work out how these alternatives will appear and feel; and dealing with engineers to scope about constructing them.
Working carefully with designers and engineers is an important a part of my day-to-day. I additionally work carefully with different Product Managers to share learnings, and finest practices and regularly develop, like PEER Week. (Product Interact, Excited, and Reunite Week).
As we’re distant, most of this collaboration is digital, nevertheless, we have now just a few alternatives yearly to collaborate in particular person.
What are just a few 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 enjoying video games. Sport is an effective way to totally swap off from work because it occupies your thoughts and physique, so 3-4 occasions every week I’ll go all the way 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 meaning I’ve extra time to myself and extra time to relaxation.
How can you convey your true self to work on daily basis?
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 college. Nonetheless, my supervisor and workforce 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 angle means I haven’t got to ‘faux’ when at work – I can simply be my genuine self and do my finest work.
What’s a false impression individuals have about your function?
The most important false impression of my function is that the function of a Product Supervisor is identical as a Product Proprietor or Undertaking Supervisor. Product Managers are half Undertaking 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 perform 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 all the things we do leads to dependable and scalable learnings.
What shocked you most about working at HubSpot?
Once I was interviewing at HubSpot I did not assume everybody may very well 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 flawed I used to be. The Tradition Code is spoken about (and adopted) by everybody within the enterprise, and senior leaders place lots of weight on it. Management embraces our HEART values (Humble, Empathetic, Adaptable, Exceptional, Clear) as a lot as everybody else, and virtually everybody within the enterprise is genuinely purchased into it.
Select 3-4 phrases that describe your function at HubSpot.
Rewarding. Difficult. Partaking.
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