Writing

Essays by Matt Gross on product leadership, analytics, experimentation, and technical careers.

Notes and essays on building data products, leading technical teams, and the craft of making decisions with evidence. Subscribe via RSS.

Analytics

Product

Why deciding what to measure — before building anything visual — is the highest-leverage work in analytics.

Product

Analytics

Treat your experimentation program like a product with users, a roadmap, and a health dashboard — not a one-time initiative.

Leadership

Career

Technical credibility for a product leader doesn’t mean out-coding the team. It means asking better questions and making their work visible.

Leadership

Product

The most valuable parts of technical product management rarely appear in a job description: translation, memory, and taste.

Career

Analytics

People leadership isn’t the only way up. IC tracks, growth axes, and how to tell which path you actually want.