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Stefanie Brown

Great products aren't just built, they're shaped by the people who use them every day. My approach to product management starts with deeply understanding customer needs, identifying patterns in feedback, and translating insights into meaningful roadmap decisions.

Just talk to customers. Deliver customer value.

Dec 19, 2025

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10 min read

Just talk to customers. Deliver customer value.

Strategy changes daily. Priorities shift overnight. Here’s how I stay grounded when everything feels chaotic.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
Give me 5 minutes, I’ll explain what PMs actually do

Dec 12, 2025

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10 min read

Give me 5 minutes, I’ll explain what PMs actually do

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
You don’t need to code. But you do need to understand this.

Dec 5, 2025

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11 min read

You don’t need to code. But you do need to understand this.

Being technical as a PM Isn’t about coding. Its about understanding your systems well enough to know what’s hard, what’s easy and what’s worth doing.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
When “career growth” hits your roadmap

Nov 28, 2025

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11 min read

When “career growth” hits your roadmap

My team changed just as we launched our biggest initiative in years. Here’s how I’m holding it together (barely).

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
She checked every box. Still wasn’t get interviews.

Nov 21, 2025

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14 min read

She checked every box. Still wasn’t get interviews.

Senior Director. Decades of experience. Zero callbacks. Here’s what was actually wrong.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
Why big company backlogs are actually harder

Nov 14, 2025

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11 min read

Why big company backlogs are actually harder

Hot take: Managing a backlog at a 20-person startup was easier than at HubSpot. Here’s why scale changes everything.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
🎃 The Best Product Feature No One Asked For

Oct 31, 2025

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9 min read

🎃 The Best Product Feature No One Asked For

Not every feature needs to solve a problem. Some just need to make someone smile on a random Tuesday.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
A Trip to Vegas: Every Casino on the Strip Knows Exactly Who They’re For

Oct 24, 2025

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13 min read

A Trip to Vegas: Every Casino on the Strip Knows Exactly Who They’re For

What walking through Vegas taught me about product positioning, knowing your customer, and the courage to let some people walk away.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
How I Moved from Support to PM (Without Leaving My Company)

Oct 17, 2025

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11 min read

How I Moved from Support to PM (Without Leaving My Company)

I was so sick of watching customer problems sit in the backlog of doom. Here’s how I changed that.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
Two Years In: What I Wish I Knew on Day One

Oct 10, 2025

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9 min read

Two Years In: What I Wish I Knew on Day One

What actually changes when you go from startup PM to enterprise PM (and what stays the same)

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
We Tell Our Customers Data Is Everything. Here’s Why We Need to Take Our Own Advice.

Oct 3, 2025

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10 min read

We Tell Our Customers Data Is Everything. Here’s Why We Need to Take Our Own Advice.

Why clean data matters even more for PMs in the AI era

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
What My Week Actually Looked Like (And The System That Keeps Me Sane)

Sep 26, 2025

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9 min read

What My Week Actually Looked Like (And The System That Keeps Me Sane)

How I manage 10 engineers and 3 roadmaps without losing my mind

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
How I turn customer complaints into product wins

Sep 19, 2025

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10 min read

How I turn customer complaints into product wins

Getting the “obvious” fixes prioritized when your company has big goals

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
The 5 Questions Every Aspiring PM Asks Me (And My Honest Answers)

Sep 12, 2025

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12 min read

The 5 Questions Every Aspiring PM Asks Me (And My Honest Answers)

What I learned from 15+ mentoring calls about breaking into product

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
The Customer Calls That Changed My Roadmap This Week

Sep 5, 2025

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8 min read

The Customer Calls That Changed My Roadmap This Week

And the simple questions that unlock what really matters.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
The Beginner’s Edge in Product

Aug 29, 2025

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8 min read

The Beginner’s Edge in Product

Why not being “there yet” is your best asset.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
My calendar looks like a game of Tetris made entirely of customer calls.

Aug 22, 2025

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7 min read

My calendar looks like a game of Tetris made entirely of customer calls.

Why these conversations are the best energy boost before launch.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
 I Almost Forgot My Flight to INBOUND

Aug 15, 2025

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8 min read

I Almost Forgot My Flight to INBOUND

And that’s not even the worst pre-launch mistake I’ve made. Here’s the system I use now to stay sane before big releases.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
How I 10x’d My Product Docs with AI

Aug 8, 2025

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5 min read

How I 10x’d My Product Docs with AI

Not hypothetically. Not someday. These are the actual workflows I use and what changed when I did.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
You nailed the launch. Now what?

Aug 1, 2025

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5 min read

You nailed the launch. Now what?

The next 7 days are more important than launch day. Heres how to keep momentum going without (burning out).

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
You’re Not Bad at Prioritizing; You’re Just Prioritizing the Wrong Things

Jul 25, 2025

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6 min read

You’re Not Bad at Prioritizing; You’re Just Prioritizing the Wrong Things

Stop drowning in endless Jira tickets and focus on what matters most.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
Someone just called your UX ‘the worst they’ve ever seen

Jul 18, 2025

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7 min read

Someone just called your UX ‘the worst they’ve ever seen

I actually love when this happens (here’s my exact response)

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
I Planned the Perfect Sprint...It Still Fell Apart

Jul 11, 2025

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5 min read

I Planned the Perfect Sprint...It Still Fell Apart

Your spec isn’t the problem. It’s how (and when) you wrote it.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
🧰 The Scrappy PM Toolkit

Jul 4, 2025

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5 min read

🧰 The Scrappy PM Toolkit

I didn’t break into product by knowing the most frameworks. I got in by making sense of the mess.

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
3 ways to get signal faster (before you waste a sprint)

Jun 27, 2025

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2 min read

3 ways to get signal faster (before you waste a sprint)

Scrappy, smart testing for PMs who don’t want to wait

Stefanie Brown
Stefanie Brown
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