Product management at Squarespace?
Can any Squarespace PMs speak to the product culture at the company? Hoping to interview there soon and would love to hear anyone’s thoughts on the work, team, and culture.
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Can any Squarespace PMs speak to the product culture at the company? Hoping to interview there soon and would love to hear anyone’s thoughts on the work, team, and culture.
I work in engineering, but not a PM, though I am friends with several. The biggest issue right now is that a lot of PMs in charge of projects are there due to legacy reasons. They helped the company grow through the startup days. However, they want to keep operating in a similar manner. This might work with 50 employees, but you need to learn and adapt process when you get to thousand+ employees. Some are resistant to this change. A lot of the newer PMs are really awesome and come from a more holistic, hypothesis driven background and are more quantitatively driven than qualitatively like older PMs. Don’t know if that was helpful or not but happy to help answer questions!
That is very helpful context, thank you! Despite some friction between the older and newer PMs, you get the sense that the team is satisfied with their work environment and the problems they’re solving? Understand if you can’t answer this due to not being on the team, but just curious about the culture of the company / team and general morale. Squarespace appears to be doing really well and I know that can make a big difference in morale.
Yeah, that sounds about right. We’ve recently had some PM turnovers that were frankly long overdue but my impression on the whole is the PMs get to solve big and interesting problems as we scale and enter new product spaces. One thing some people have commented on is a lack of transparency from the higher ups in the org but I can only speak to that in an engineering context and not product.