Brought to you by Wealthfront—Make smarter stock investments | Lenny’s Job Board—Hire the best product people. Find the best product gigs | Ahrefs—Improve your website’s SEO for free—Nikita Miller is a product leader, angel investor, and advisor. She has built and led product teams at companies ranging from early-stage startups to multinationals, and she is currently SVP of Product Management at The Knot Worldwide. Nikita is passionate about scaling product teams to support high-growth businesses and was a product leader at Trello and Atlassian for five years. In today’s podcast, we cover:• Lessons from building and growing Trello• Nikita’s roles and responsibilities framework• How the PM landscape is changing• Lessons about managing remote teams• Tactics for driving urgency within teams• Why working cross-culturally was such a formative experience—Find the transcript and references at: ⁠https://www.lennyspodcast.com/driving-alignment-and-urgency-within-teams-work-life-balance-and-the-changing-pm-landscape-nikita-miller-the-knot-trello/#transcript—Where to find Nikita Miller:• Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikitadyer• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitadyer/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:

Nikita’s background

How Nikita helped Trello develop enterprise features

Trello vs. Jira

Similarities and differences between building for users at The Knot vs. Trello

Pro tips for Trello users

Nikita’s roles and responsibilities framework

Why scrum masters are disappearing and what shifts are happening on teams

Why every team should have a data scientist embedded in it

The proper cadence for the rules and responsibilities framework, and problems around execution

Outcomes and output

The importance of urgency, and how to cultivate a sense of urgency

How to determine if your team is moving quickly enough

Prioritization between big bets and optimizations

Questions Nikita asks to understand her team’s speed

Changes in the field of product management

Advice for people who want to get into product

Why being a PM is hard, and thoughts on work-life balance

How to manage remote teams and how to do successful, short, in-person meetups

The importance of having overlapping work hours and onboarding in person

The advantages of working in different cultures

The question Nikita finds most useful