# Product Manager ramp up plan - Handbook

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 analyics 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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