Matt Roe, Senior Product Supervisor

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 way more. 

Inform us about your position. What do you do for HubSpot?

I determine potential alternatives for brand new person acquisition progress at HubSpot and work with my product groups to construct them.

What does collaboration seem like in your staff? 

Collaboration appears loads like partnering with researchers to determine new potential progress alternatives; collaborating with Design to work out how these alternatives will feel and look; and dealing with engineers to scope about constructing them.

Working intently with designers and engineers is a vital a part of my day-to-day. I additionally work intently 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, nonetheless, we have now a number of alternatives yearly to collaborate in individual.

What are a number of methods you steadiness 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 change 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 each day?

HubSpot is a spot the place variety, 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. Nevertheless, my supervisor and staff see previous my much less conventional path to turning 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 folks have about your position?

The most important false impression of my position is that the position of a Product Supervisor is similar as a Product Proprietor or Challenge Supervisor. Product Managers are half Challenge 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 position. Being a Progress Product Supervisor means I should be a steward of excellent experimentation follow and tradition, making certain that every little thing 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 suppose everybody could possibly 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 completely different. How unsuitable I used to be. The Tradition Code is spoken about (and adopted) by everybody within the enterprise, and senior leaders place a number of weight on it. Management embraces our HEART values (Humble, Empathetic, Adaptable, Outstanding, 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 position at HubSpot.

Rewarding. Difficult. Partaking.

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