Stephanie J. Neill

You know you are no longer a startup when it takes world class horse-trading and a huge committee of PMs & Designers to ship any changes to the left nav of your product’s dashboard and you end up shipping a left nav that makes total sense internally and little sense externally.

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.@stephaneill (VP, Product, @Twitch at @Amazon) discusses high-performing product teams and scaling effective product leadership. Neill also highlights the importance of team composition, incentives, and managing underperformers. (video + transcript) girlgeek.io/building-high-…

New episode of Product Talk!🎙 In this podcast, Willow Innovations, Inc. VP of Product Melissa Pickering meets with @Twitch VP of Product @stephaneill for a conversation on building high-performing teams. Listen now on Products That Count: bit.ly/47VSZaP

Three reasons why we see tension between designers and product managers 🧵

So many people ask me why someone who could work at Google or wherever would CHOOSE to work in government. @laurenalisa explains it so well here. It's not just "giving back." It's what you get, too. bit.ly/43MZ3jn

When you’ve built the wrong product that solves an unimportant problem or you’ve chosen to build the wrong features or you’ve chosen the wrong customer segments, no amount of sorcery on “go-to-market” is going to fix your woes. But that doesn’t stop some product leaders (under…

ICYMI, here are the 3 books I recommended on the Ezra Klein show this week. The first one has a subtitle so long it doesn't fit in a tweet, but it's called Implementation and it's like one of the stories in my book but from 1973, and told in even greater nerdy detail.

7/20 What Low Agency vs. High Agency looks like: Note Low Agency Bob’s instinctive reaction when faced with a tough challenge. Note how everything is an “other” problem, not a "Bob problem" Note how everything High Agency Alice says comes from a place of what 𝘴𝘩𝘦 can control

When you start managing someone, use your 1:1s in the first couple of weeks to understand their Context. Most new managers focus solely on Content (projects/goals/blockers). But Context + Content lets you move faster from Rapport to Credibility to Trust. Example 1:1 questions:

1. How to define your product strategy. When I start a new job, I define a SWAG (Stupid Wild-Ass Guess) product strategy within my first two weeks. Here's my approach...

One of the most important pieces of feedback you can get from your manager is *how you are perceived* by folks in a position of power within your org. It plays such an important role in how you are reviewed, promoted, compensated and yet a candid discussion of this topic is rare.

🫧 If I had to describe my TwitchCon experience in one GIF 🫧

The reaction someone has when you share something you worked on says a lot about the culture 1/ wait...why wasn't I included earlier? who told you to work on this? 2/ woah...this is awesome! thanks for tackling. can i help?

In B2B, everyone talks about how you should be clear on “what problem you are solving”. To make this work in practice, split this question into 3 components: - Buyer problem - Champion motivation - User problem This format forces rigor, creates clarity, and gets you buy-in.

There are 3 ways to build confidence in your ability to do X without actually having done X. 1. See people who excel at X do it up close. 2. Work out a first principles understanding of X. 3. Develop confidence in your capacity to learn anything, including X.

What's your favorite essay/blog post of all time? Looking for >2 years old, and that you think will be as good in a decade. Instant classics.

When I say that you should try to work out of your calendar, it looks like the image below: Every day at EOD, plan the next day Try to keep meetings contiguous Replace your calendar blocks with specific L task(s) from your to-do list Schedule N & O tasks for low energy times

Bad design pitches are: • Here's my solution • Here's what it does • Here's what's so good about it Good design pitches are: • Here's the problem • Here's the impact of solving it • Here's why what we've tried has failed • And here is a way that we fix it

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