Matt LeMay
Product leader, consultant, and author. Former music critic at Pitchfork; transitioned into product management and has since worked with hundreds of product teams across industries including fintech, CPG, and audio equipment.
Books
- Product Management in Practice — practical handbook on the PM role
- Impact-First Product Teams — framework for aligning product team work with business-critical outcomes
Key ideas
- The Low Impact PM Death Spiral — teams default to safe, low-impact work; the accumulation makes high-impact work structurally harder over time
- Team goals should be no more than one step away from company goals
- PM’s role is to bring CEO-level commercial thinking to the whole team, not to monopolise it
- Commercial constraints (regulation, B2B, quarterly targets) are guideposts, not blockers