Building Product and Team Excellence at Personio
summary
Company scaling reads like numbers and structural moves: growth from ~20 to ~1,800–2,000 employees, product & tech near 650 people, and a shift from siloed teams to end-to-end ownership where engineers share discovery and delivery. German payroll is a stated hard problem—second-most complicated worldwide—and teams now tie PM goals to financial impact, bake cross-team capacity into performance, and hire senior leaders from the US/EU. A reorg plus these practices measurably speeds shipping; parental leave policies include a return plan that led to promotion.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to Building Product and Team Excellence
- 4:10Personio’s Transition: From Startup to Scaleup
- 11:35Frameworks for Product Team Collaboration
- 19:20Challenges in Scaling and How to Overcome Them
- 27:00Lessons on Fostering Innovation in Product Teams
- 34:15Q&A
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