Your first 90 days as a product leader

Stepping into a leadership role is disorienting. Suddenly your job is not to have the best ideas—it's to build a team that consistently has them.

Weeks 1–4: listen relentlessly

Meet everyone. Ask what's working, what's broken, and what they'd fix if they were you. Resist the urge to fix anything yet. You're building a map and, more importantly, trust.

Weeks 5–8: one visible win

Find a small, real problem the team already knows about and solve it well. This buys you the credibility to tackle the bigger, riskier changes later.

Weeks 9–12: set the operating model

Now you can introduce how decisions get made. Because you listened first, the changes feel earned rather than imposed.