{"id":19265,"date":"2021-06-30T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/?p=19265"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T10:56:18","slug":"how-our-product-management-team-innovates-while-working-from-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/how-our-product-management-team-innovates-while-working-from-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"How Our Product Management Team Innovates While Working From Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the Ringmasters series, we take a look behind the curtain at how our teams internationally use RingCentral day-to-day. They offer up advice on how to get the most out of the platform, and give their honest opinion on the features they would like to see next. The third episode taps into our product management team.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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What is product management?<\/h2>\n

For a product to last, companies must innovate and improve with feedback or bring new products to market. The best way to do this is by building a product-focused organisation where the right people, processes and company culture come together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The people that make up our product team are the brains behind the scenes. They keep their fingers on the pulse of features in demand and work this into the product roadmap.\u00a0<\/span>Whether you’re discussing the key objectives of new features or quickly jumping on a video call, RingCentral<\/a> gives product teams a virtual workspace<\/a> hub for all their communications needs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We caught up with Daniel Yin, associate vice president of product management at RingCentral, to find out more about how he uses the app.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Making global feel local\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

“One of the interesting things with the product management team is that it’s spread out across different continents. <\/span>We’ve got many managers in the US, a bunch based at HQ in Belmont and my boss in Denver. Some members are from the east coast. Then there are a couple of us in England and one guy in Northern Ireland. A lot of the people we work with are product managers based in St. Petersburg and Xiamen. <\/span>We’re in the middle of launching research and development offices in India as well; the engineers, product managers and owners are going to be there.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This highlights that the people behind the product are dotted all over the world. Despite the distance between colleagues, the team remains connected. Daniel has worked remotely since before the pandemic, so things haven’t changed hugely for him. But certain features have enabled him to stay productive with an increasingly dispersed team.<\/span><\/p>\n

Messaging keeps collaboration going\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Here are a few of the things Daniel does to keep organised with colleagues spread across time zones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t

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