International Collaboration & Strategic Product Alignment

Operating across multiple countries is a common reality for many product organizations. With teams spread across different regions, time zones, and cultures, ensuring collaboration goes beyond communication—it’s about driving strategic product alignment at scale. For Product Ops, this brings new challenges in keeping teams aligned and focused on shared business goals.

How can Product Ops enable strategic product alignment across global teams?

Join Dave Soetanto, Product Operations Leader at Egnyte and PMO Advisor, as he shares his real-life experiences on enabling strategic product alignment at scale across global teams.

Dave dives into practical strategies for bridging gaps and aligning product objectives across international teams. He highlights the importance of understanding cultural differences in decision-making and planning: “Understanding cultural differences helps us create processes that work across all teams.”

Dave shares his experience at Egnyte, where they operate across multiple regions with product leadership in the United States and engineering teams in Poland and India. One key focus was on balancing structured roadmaps with flexibility to ensure smoother collaboration. Dave also introduced a two-tiered roadmap strategy that provided clarity on priorities while allowing for adjustments. He also discussed the importance of tailoring decision-making structures to prevent misalignment and respect regional expectations while maintaining execution speed.

Dave’s insights offer valuable guidance for Product Ops professionals looking to improve global collaboration and drive strategic alignment across international teams. His experience at Egnyte demonstrates how understanding cultural nuances and adapting processes accordingly can turn the complexities of global teamwork into opportunities for growth and innovation.

Watch the recording now to get more advice on streamlining workflows and enabling effective global collaboration in your product organization.

Key Takeaways

• Standardizing key processes is crucial for successful international collaboration.
• Creating structured asynchronous workflows can help teams move forward without waiting on real-time decisions.
• Understanding cultural dimensions like uncertainty avoidance and power distance can help adapt processes to different teams.
• Balancing structure and flexibility in roadmap planning can accommodate diverse cultural approaches to commitment and change.

Transcript

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